Siegfried Eggebrecht

Georg Philipp Siegfried Eggebrecht (born February 27, 1886 in Halberstadt , † August 15, 1984 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman .

Life

Siegfried Eggebrecht was the son of the wholesale merchant Carl Eggebrecht from Halberstadt and attended the cathedral high school in his native city. In 1905 Eggebrecht did his military service. In 1906 he started studying theology at the universities of Leipzig and Halle. After attending the seminary in Naumburg am Queis , he passed the first theological exam in Halle in 1911 and became vicar . The second exam followed in Magdeburg in 1914 and ordination on August 1st. Eggebrecht was first assistant pastor in Magdeburg-Buckau . As a field division pastor , he took part in the First World War. During this time he wrote several war diaries. During this time he exchanged letters a. a. also with the church historian Friedrich Loofs .

After his return from the war he took up a position as second pastor in the city of Prettin in 1919 , before he went back to Magdeburg in 1921, where he became provincial pastor for youth work in the church province of Saxony , based in Magdeburg. As one of the two representatives of the Province of Saxony , he was one of the founders of the all-German Reich Association of Evangelical Child Care in 1922. At that time he made lasting contributions to youth welfare in the Weimar Republic and the experimental introduction of Montessori education in the provincial Saxon kindergartens of the Evangelical Church.

In 1928 he was appointed pastor of St. John's Church in the Prussian district town of Schleusingen . A year later he became superintendent . He held this office until 1954 and was at the same time the last secretary of the supra-regional Hennebergisch-Franconian history association and in this function also worked as a local researcher. For example, his publication on the Schleusingen bells is unsurpassed to this day.

Eggebrecht sympathized early on with right-wing movements and was a member of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten and, from 1933, the German Christians . He experienced the rise and the end of National Socialism in Schleusingen .

There he also spent the Soviet occupation and the first time in the GDR . In 1957 he left Thuringia and went to Baden-Württemberg, since his son Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht had received a professorship there. He spent his retirement in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he died at the age of 98.

Publications (selection)

• The Montessori method and the Protestant kindergarten movement . In: Evangelical Youth Service - Province of Saxony , 5 (1928), pp. 121–128 and 169–175.
• The Provincial Education Association in the Province of Saxony in its historical development 1879–1929 . In: The Provincial Education Association in the Province of Saxony , undated, undated [approx. 1930].
• Paul de Lagarde in Schleusingen . In: Yearbook of the Hennebergisch-Fränkischen Geschichtsverein 2 (1938), pp. 110-120.
• The history of the bells in the town of Schleusingen . In: Yearbook of the Hennebergisch-Fränkisches Geschichtsverein 3 (1939), pp. 98-124.
• Interpretation of the New Testament. In: Theodor Jänicke (Ed.): I want to praise the Lord. A book of psalms. Translations, interpretations and prayers. , Berlin-Dahlem, Burckhardthaus-Verlag GmbH, 1963.

Honors

• Medal for merits in youth welfare

literature

• Manfred Priepke: The Protestant Youth in the Third Reich, 1933–1936 , 1960, p. 22.
• Rainer Bookhagen: The Protestant child care and the inner mission in the time of National Socialism. Mobilization of the Communities , Volume 1, 1933/1937 , p. 82 and p. 547 (biography).
• Pastors' book of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony , Volume 2, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH Leipzig 2004, p. 411 (biography).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Daniela Kimmich: The war experience of the chaplain Siegfried Eggebrecht 1914-1918 based on his diaries and the correspondence with his wife Gertrude (working title of a current licentiate thesis at the University of Basel).
2. ↑ [1] .