Rudolf Kissinger

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Rudolf Kissinger (also Friedrich Rudolf Kissinger ) (born May 30, 1866 in Alsfeld , † September 11, 1944 in Darmstadt ) was a German pastor, teacher, local history researcher , club and association functionary.

Life

Kissinger held both a doctorate and a professorial title. He began as a teacher in 1906 with the first student hikes in Darmstadt. From 1914 until his retirement in 1931 he was director of the Eleonorenschule in Darmstadt.

Kissinger was active as a gymnast as well as in the Darmstadt branch of the Odenwald Club, where from 1906 he established the hiking movement of young men in the Jung-Odenwald Club . The Falke 1916 Darmstadt hiking club emerged from this movement, and from 1919 onwards it was recognized as an independent young team of the Darmstadt branch of the Odenwald Club . In 1924, the Jung-Odenwaldklub was re-established with Kissinger as a co-founder as the organization of the main association of the Odenwaldklub. On May 25, 1913, Kissinger published the first edition of Dorflinde , the club magazine of the Odenwald Club, and headed its editorial department until his death.

After the founding of the Central Main Committee for Youth Hostels in 1919, Kissinger was a member of its first board. He was a co-founder of the DJH branch committee Odenwald in 1918/19 and its 1st chairman from 1920 to 1922/23.

From 1921 to 1930 Kissinger was chairman of the Association of German Mountain and Hiking Clubs . As the personally elected chairman, Friedrich Hermann Löscher stood by his side as executive chairman of the association.

Kissinger was the editor of the series Heimatkunde from the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Heimatkunde from the People's State of Hesse as well as the textbook series Hessisches Lesebuch .

Kissinger was a member of war clubs as well as the association for Germans abroad .

Kissinger was chairman of the old rulers of the Adelphia fraternity in Giessen .

During World War II , Kissinger was killed in an air raid on Darmstadt on September 11, 1944.

Kissinger was married to Jakobina Kissinger nee Storr. The couple had two sons and a daughter.

In Heubach , the Kissinger-Wünzer-Hütte of the Odenwald Club is named after Kissinger and Rudolf Wünzer . A street in Hirschhorn is named after Kissinger.

Works

author

  • From Hirschhorn's story . Wetzel, 1900.
  • Darmstadt in the days of mobilization in 1914 . Darmstadt: H. Hohmann, 1914.

editor

  • The Odenwald, Bergstrasse, Main and Neckar valleys in the picture . Darmstadt, 10th edition, 1908.
  • Local history of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Giessen: Roth. DNB 560561687
  • Local history from the People's State of Hesse . Giessen: Roth. DNB 560561695
  • Hessian reading book . Giessen: Roth. DNB 560680929

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Eva Kraus: The German Youth Hostel Association 1909–1933 . Pro Business, 2013. ISBN 978-3-86386-488-0 . P. 135f
  2. ↑ a b c owk-heubach.bahlecke.de
  3. ↑ a b Jochem Schäfer: Goethe and his late work “Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre” in the light of the resistance against National Socialism - the German Hiking Day 1927 in Herborn and its consequences . Schmitz, Nordstrand 2011, ISBN 978-3-938098-67-7 . P. 12
  4. ↑ a b digada.de
  5. ↑ a b c echo-online.de
  6. ↑ a b c mein-suedhessen.de
  7. ↑ wanderclub-falke.de
  8. ↑ darmstadt-stadtlexikon.de
  9. ↑ a b c wanderverband.de (PDF)
  10. ↑ ISSN  1439-5533
  11. ^ German Hiking Association (Ed.): 125 years of hiking and more . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86568-221-5 , p. 171
  12. ^ German Hiking Association (Ed.): 125 years of hiking and more . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86568-221-5 , p. 170
personal data
SURNAME Kissinger, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kissinger, Friedrich Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, teacher, local researcher, club and association functionary
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Alsfeld
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1944
Place of death Darmstadt