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Rudolf Stempel (born April 25, 1879 in Pulsnitz , † October 19, 1936 in Leipzig , full name: Heinrich Rudolf Stempel ) was a Protestant pastor , employee of the Inner Mission and teacher. He is considered a martyr of the Evangelical Church .

Life

Rudolf Stempel was Flora's second child, nee Schiebler and the businessman Alfred Stempel.

Stempel first attended the citizens' school in Pulsnitz and then the princely school St. Afra in Meißen . He then studied theology in Berlin, Kiel and Leipzig. From 1907 to 1909 he initially worked in Dresden as a teacher, tutor and in the service of the Inner Mission. Then he was pastor in Neukirch / Lausitz and Liebenau , later divisional chaplain in Bautzen and the Church Gröba in Riesa.

He was a member of the Confessing Church and also active in the Inner Mission . Stempel died in the Leipzig University Clinic as a result of the torture suffered in 1934 in the Hohnstein concentration camp , the official reason given was severe nervous disorders.

He was with Dorothea, geb. Knaur married and had two daughters and a son.

Honors

Rudolf-Stempel-Strasse in the Riesa district of Gröba and the Christian grammar school "Rudolf Stempel" in Riesa are named after Stempel .

literature

  • Lusatian Almanac 3/2008
  • Werner Oehme: Martyrs of Protestant Christianity: 1933–1945. 29 images of life. Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 1979 (2nd edition 1980, 3rd, revised edition 1985)
  • Björn Mensing, Heinrich Rathke : Humanity, civil courage, trust in God: Protestant victims of National Socialism and Stalinism. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2003 ISBN 9783374020577 , pp. 41–43
  • Thomas Mielke: Martyrs of the Church get memorial. In: Sächsische Zeitung , November 16, 2009.
  • Thomas Piesker: The Scholar of Gröba. In: Sächsische Zeitung , January 17, 2004.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Konstantin Hermann, Gerhard Lindemann (ed.): Between Christ Cross and Swastika: Biographies of theologians of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony under National Socialism (=  reports and studies . Volume 75 ). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8471-0726-2 , pp. 246 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Stamp, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stamp, Heinrich Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, employee of the internal mission, teacher, martyr of the Evangelical Church
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Pulsnitz
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1936
Place of death Leipzig