Ulrich Burgstaller

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Ulrich Burgstaller (1935)
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Ulrich Emil Bernhard Burgstaller (born November 27, 1894 in Sudenburg ; † August 2, 1935 in Lübeck ) was a German Protestant pastor and National Socialist member of the Lübeck Senate .

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Burgstaller was born as the son of the city teacher Christoph Wilhelm Karl Burgstaller and his wife Elise Christine Amalie, née. Piper born.

After studying Protestant theology , he entered the service of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . He received his first pastor in Val Gardena , Church Province of Saxony .

When Reinhold Hoyer, pastor of the second pastoral care district of Wilhelm Mildenstein's Luther Church in Lübeck, left this, 74 applications were received for the advertised position. Nine of them were invited to face-to-face interviews and three were given the opportunity to give an election sermon. Burgstaller was one of them. He began his sermon entitled “Master Builder of a Destroyed World” with a quote from Goethe's Faust , then dealt extensively with the depressed and paralyzed political mood in the German Empire and invoked the need to set off into a new era with God's help. He appeared to his audience as the culturally highly educated and talented speaker .

In August 1926, the member of the Bund für Deutsche Kirche moved with his wife and four daughters to the second pastorate at Moislinger Allee 66b . He was a nationalist -minded person and prior to 1933 member of the NSDAP , which he as a deputy in the Hanseatic city since 1932 citizenship represented. As early as 1932 he became a member of the German Christian Movement . Burgstaller had distinct musical and cultural interests.

After the National Socialists came to power, Burgstaller was appointed State Commissioner of the High School Authority by Friedrich Völtzer , who was appointed Reich Commissioner for the Hanseatic City of Lübeck on March 11th. As such, he was directly responsible for the dismissal of Georg Rosenthal as director of the Katharineum , the school councilor Sebald Schwarz , the director of the city ​​library Willy Pieth , his deputy Heinrich Schneider and the Germanist Meta Corssen as head of the public library. When Lübeck came under the control of the Mecklenburg Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt in May 1933, this Burgstaller appointed Senator for School and Theater on May 30, 1933 . In the Lübeck cultural administration he was able to rely in particular on the state school supervisor Hans Wolff , who is considered to be the actual engine behind the coordination of the Lübeck cultural establishment. Burgstaller applied for leave of absence from his pastoral office. In 1934 he fell ill with pulmonary tuberculosis . His enthusiastic identification with National Socialism collapsed, and there were differences with his superior Gauleiter. Burgstaller applied for a pastorate in Hessen-Nassau . Burgstaller died on August 2, 1935 in Lübeck before he could have started this. It is historically no clear evidence whether he suicide committed or, as it was officially called, after a long illness died of the consequences.

After a state ceremony in the Marienkirche , a staging of National Socialist propaganda in the presence of Hildebrandt, Burgstaller was buried in the Burgtorfriedhof.

literature

  • Hansjörg Buss: "De-Judged" church. The Lübeck regional church between Christian anti-Judaism and ethnic anti-Semitism (1918-1950). Paderborn: Schöningh 2011 ISBN 978-3-506-77014-1
  • Gerhard Schneider : Endangering and Loss of Statehood of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck and its Consequences ; Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1986, pp. 79-82 (on 1933) ISBN 3-7950-0452-7
  • Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of the publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, p. 58
  • Jörg Fligge : Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich": a study on the educational system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, p. 845 ff. (Obituary)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ancestry.com. Magdeburg, Germany, Birth Register 1874–1903 [database on-line], Registry Office Sudenburg, Register Number 1276/1894
  2. ↑ Karen Meyer-Rebentisch: What is Luther doing in St. Lorenz? History and stories from the district and community. , Luther-Melanchthon parish, 2014, p. 29.
  3. ↑ Buss (lit.), p. 113
  4. ^ Rolf Saltzwedel : The Luther Community in Lübeck during National Socialism. In: Der Wagen 1995/96 (1995), pp. 119-138.
  5. ↑ See Buss (Lit.), p. 304; Karl Friedrich Stellbrink assumed that his colleague had shot himself. (ibid.)
  6. ↑ Buss, p. 304
personal data
SURNAME Burgstaller, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burgstaller, Ulrich Emil Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor and member of the Lübeck Senate
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Sudenburg
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1935
Place of death Lübeck