Theodor Krummacher

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Theodor Gustav Hermann Adam Krummacher (* 1867 in Halberstadt , † 1945 in Potsdam ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Theodor Krummacher was the son of the cathedral preacher Cornelius Friedrich Adolf Krummacher and grandson of the theologian Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher . He was married to Elisabeth von der Goltz , sister of the officer Rüdiger von der Goltz .

After studying theology, he was appointed pastor at the Friedenskirche in Potsdam. After a few years he was brought to the same office at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin .

It was there that Empress Auguste (1858–1921), wife of Wilhelm II, noticed him and in 1910 won him as a chaplain for the Empress Augusta Foundation founded in 1871 by her grandmother-in-law, Empress Augusta (1811–1890), wife of Wilhelm I whose patronage she had taken in 1890. Krummacher devoted himself to this task for over 25 years and was one of the most important pastors of the imperial family in Potsdam during these years. In 1937 he published an autobiography entitled Memories from Office and Home . Because of its proximity to the German imperial family, these read like a “Berlin who's who of the imperial era” and therefore still have cultural and historical value today. Marie Bode calls him "the persona gratissima at the whole court" in her diaries.

As a pastor at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church , he gave the commemorative speech at the funeral service before the funeral of the writer Julius Wolff in 1910 .

His son Friedrich-Wilhelm Krummacher was bishop in Greifswald.

Works

  • Preface to: Lili von Hackewitz : Flowers, picked along the way, for the sick and healthy. Deaconess institution, Kaiserswerth 1904.
  • Jesus Christ yesterday and today and the same forever. Farewell sermon delivered on June 12, 1910. Warneck, Berlin 1910.
  • Empress Auguste Viktoria. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig [1913].
  • Commemorative speech at the coffin of His Excellency the General of the Infantry von Seebeck, First Curator of the Empress = Augusta Foundation, held in the Garrison Church of Potsdam on December 1, 1914. Special print. [1914].
  • But thank God, who gave us the victory! (1 Cor. 15, 57-58). Sermon delivered on Sunday Misericordias Domini, May 7th 1916 after returning from the Eastern Front. Mittler, Berlin 1916.
  • God did not give us the spirit of fear but of strength! (2. Tim. 1, 7). Preached on the 2nd Sunday after Trinity, July 2nd, 1916 after returning from the Western Front. Mittler, Berlin 1916.
  • Preface to: Moritz Seebeck : From a sunny childhood. Letters. Mittler, Berlin 1916.
  • Memories from office and home. Mittler, Berlin 1937.

literature

  • Friedrich Erich Dobberahn: Pastor Theodor Krummacher's confirmation class at the Kaiserin Augusta Foundation in Potsdam in the first year of the war 1914–1915 according to the testimony of his confirmation student Ellen Richter. Via Verbis, Taufkirchen 2015, ISBN 978-3-933902-43-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rainer Noltenius (Ed.): I don't want to swap with a man. A painting of the times in the diaries and letters of Marie Bruns-Bode (1885-1952). P. 58.
  2. ↑ Julius Wolff's funeral, in: Berliner Tageblatt, June 7, 1910, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Krummacher, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krummacher, Theodor Gustav Hermann Adam (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Potsdam