Richard Remé

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Richard Remé (born February 13, 1875 in Hamburg , † July 7, 1944 in Wyk ) was a German pastor and founder of the Amalie Sieveking House.

Life

Richard Remé was the fourth of six sons of Wilhelm Remé and his wife Marie Louise Wilhelmine, née Crasemann (1842–1926). He attended the learned school of the Johanneum and graduated from high school in 1893 as the best of his year. After studying Protestant theology for seven semesters at the University of Tübingen , the University of Leipzig and the University of Greifswald , he passed his first theological exam in Hamburg in 1897. From 1897 to 1899 he gave home lessons in Latvia and Friedrichsruh and took on auxiliary activities at the city mission on St. Pauli . During his stay in Friedrichsruh he made the acquaintance of Otto von Bismarck .

In 1899 Remé passed the second exam in Hamburg and received ordination. He then worked as an assistant preacher in Hamm and moved to Berlin in 1902 , where he became secretary of the Central Committee of the Inner Mission . In 1904 Remé moved to Hamburg and took over the post of head of the city mission. Six years later he became a pastor at the St. Gertrud Church on the Uhlenhorst , where he worked as a pastor until his retirement in 1940.

During the First World War , Remé worked as a field preacher in France, who was decorated several times. Because of the social problems, the pastor was committed to a “Church on the move” after the end of the war. Remé intended to activate and promote life in the parishes and the work of pastors. In a leading position, he succeeded in amalgamating ten core congregations to form a regional church community association , which, deliberately Lutheran, was a central component of the Hamburg church until the early 1930s. With other pastors he joined together in the joint conference of Lutheran theologians in Hamburg . In the course of these activities, Remé planned to found a deaconess mother house in 1924 to replace the mother house in Bethlehem, which had left the regional church in 1920.

In 1927 Richard Remé was one of the founding members of the Regional Church Association for Female Diakonie in Hamburg e. V., along with Simon Schöffel , Theodor Knolle and his brother Wilhelm Remé . V. In 1929 the association inaugurated a deaconess mother house in Volksdorf , which was named after Amalie Sieveking and from which in 1940 the Evangelical Amalie Sieveking Hospital developed. Due to progressive paralysis, Remé gave up the chairmanship of the board in 1942.

During the time of National Socialism , the pastor had a distant relationship with the National Socialists and the German Christians , but never became active in the Confessing Church . After Operation Gomorrah , Remé moved to Wyk on the island of Föhr , where he died in 1944. His grave is in the Ohlsdorf cemetery .

Richard Remé was married to the Swiss Eva Gneissaz since 1902. The marriage produced three sons. Eva Gneissaz died in 1923. In 1924 Remé married Frieda Mayer, with whom he had two daughters.

In 1942 he named Loki Schmidt .

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  • Amalie Sieveking. A pioneer of the Christian women's movement , Hamburg 1911.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lothar Frenz: A year with Loki. Berlin 2019. p. 151.
personal data
SURNAME Remé, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor and founder of the Amalie Sieveking House
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1944
Place of death Wyk