Theodor Valentiner (clergyman)

Theodor Valentiner (around 1900)

Theodor Valentiner (born January 28, 1854 in Jerusalem , † September 9, 1913 in Hanover ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, superintendent in Eutin, provost in Husum and superintendent of the Lauenburg district in Ratzeburg.

Life

Theodor Valentiner came from an old academic family in Schleswig-Holstein and was the son of pastor Friedrich Peter Valentiner , who built up the German Protestant community in Jerusalem from 1852 to 1866 . He studied Protestant theology up to the Michaelis exam in 1878 and then attended the North Schleswig Preachers' Seminar of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Schleswig-Holstein . On January 23, 1881 he became deacon (2nd pastor) at St. Michaelis in Lütjenburg . On October 22, 1882 he was elected chief pastor of the St. Laurentii town church in Itzehoe .

On November 29, 1891 he was called to Eutin with a change to the regional church of the Principality of Lübeck . In Eutin he was the main pastor ( first city preacher ) of the St. Michaelis Church and, as superintendent with the title of Privy Councilor of Churches, he was the leading clergyman of the small regional church of the Principality of Lübeck in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . Its area of supervision comprised twelve parishes with around 40,000 Lutheran residents.

During his tenure there was a sharp increase in the population in the outskirts of Lübeck. Valentiner reacted with the reorganization of the historically grown municipal boundaries in the west and north of the Hanseatic city. In the old, very large parish of Rensefeld , he had the Stockelsdorf parish built at the beginning of 1899 by a grand ducal order . In 1903 he was able to inaugurate their new church. The inside of Lübeck Landgraben nearby towns Schönböcken, Steinraderhof, clutter village Trems, Vorwerk and Wilhelm height, which were also the parish after Rensefeld, came to St. Matthew Lübeck the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeckischen state . In the north of Lübeck, the parishes of Dänischburg, Siems, Herrenwyk, Kücknitz and Dummerstorf and Pöppendorf, which belonged to Ratekau and belonged to the cathedral chapter until 1803 , made the establishment of the Kücknitz parish of the Hanseatic city's regional church possible. The upswing on the beach was taken into account by the introduction of seasonal forest services in Timmendorfer Strand and Scharbeutz , the construction of the Petrikirche and the associated foundation of the Niendorf chapel community .

Dedication of the Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem; Valentiner is the clergyman right at the church door

He was a board member of the Breklumer Missionsgesellschaft and chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein Association of the Jerusalem Foundation . In 1898 the Grand Duke of Oldenburg delegated him to take part in the Emperor's entourage on Kaiser Wilhelm II's trip to Palestine ; he was one of the clergy who consecrated the Church of the Redeemer on Reformation Day , October 31, 1898.

In November 1909 he was appointed provost of the Husum - Bredstedt provost, based in Husum, and thus worked again for Schleswig-Holstein's regional church. However, he did not stay long, but in 1911 moved to the office of superintendent for the Duchy of Lauenburg , which was given episcopal rights, and was a separate district in the regional church of Schleswig-Holstein. After a serious illness, he died in 1913.

Awards

Oldenburg House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig , Knight's Cross of Honor 2nd Class with the Silver Crown (1908)

literature

Walter Körber: Churches in Vicelins Land. Eutin: Struve 1977, esp. Pp. 102-106, portrait p. 105
Wichmann von Meding: Abrogated Faith: Church history of the Duchy of Lower Saxony in today's state of Schleswig-Holstein (Duchy of Lauenburg). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-59779-8 , esp.p. 265ff

Web links

Entry , Lower Saxony State Archives (Oldenburg location) , Directory of State Services Directory, Order 1 No. 599 p. 491

Individual evidence

^ Place of death according to von Meding (Lit.), p. 265
^ The lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866 Volume 2, Kiel 1868, p. 494 ff., Lists 15 family members under nos. 2238 to 2252.
↑ Friedrich Volbehr: Overview of the clergy of the ev.-luth. State Church of Schleswig-Holstein. in: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 12 (1882), pp. 315–374, here p. 360
↑ Körber (Lit.), p. 108
↑ Thomas Hartmut Benner: The rays of the crown: the religious dimension of the empire under Wilhelm II against the background of the Orient trip in 1898. Marburg: Tectum 2001; Zugl .: Leipzig, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2001 ISBN 3-8288-8227-7 , p. 182

predecessor	Office	successor
Franz Jürgen Soltau	Superintendent of the Lauenburg district of the Ev.-Luth. Lutheran Church in Schleswig-Holstein 1911 - 1913	Johannes Lange

personal data
SURNAME	Valentiner, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, superintendent in Eutin, provost in Husum and state superintendent in Ratzeburg
DATE OF BIRTH	January 28, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jerusalem
DATE OF DEATH	September 9, 1913
Place of death	Hanover

[1] Place of death according to von Meding (Lit.), p. 265

[2] The lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866 Volume 2, Kiel 1868, p. 494 ff., Lists 15 family members under nos. 2238 to 2252.

[3] Friedrich Volbehr: Overview of the clergy of the ev.-luth. State Church of Schleswig-Holstein. in: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 12 (1882), pp. 315–374, here p. 360

[4] Körber (Lit.), p. 108

[5] Thomas Hartmut Benner: The rays of the crown: the religious dimension of the empire under Wilhelm II against the background of the Orient trip in 1898. Marburg: Tectum 2001; Zugl .: Leipzig, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2001 ISBN 3-8288-8227-7 , p. 182