Victor Laudia

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Wilhelm Viktor Laudien (born June 26, 1866 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † 1945 in Schlawe , Pomerania ) was a German pastor.

Life

Viktor Laudien, fourth child of the Königsberg music director and cantor at the Old Town Church Heinrich Julius Laudien (* December 10, 1829 - October 2, 1893 ) and his wife Johanna Mathilde Berta Ankermann (* May 24, 1834 - August 30, 1898 ) , attended the Old Town High School in his hometown , where his father was a singing teacher. From 1892 he studied Protestant theology at the Albertus University in Königsberg .

After ordination Laudien was from 1895 pastor in Laugszargen , 1905 in Frombork , Warmia . From 1909 to 1933 he was pastor at the Old Town Church, from 1911 also city superintendent of Königsberg. Musically gifted, he published a biography on Constanz Berneker in 1909 with a foreword by Konrad Burdach . In 1934 he brought out the first and only Evangelical church book for Königsberg.

Laudien last lived with the family of his son Martin (* September 21, 1906 , † July 1, 1979 ), who was a pastor in Weinsdorf . Polish militias beat up and mistreated Viktor Laudien so severely when the German population was expelled from Weinsdorf in autumn 1945 that he died at the age of 79 as a result of the injuries a few days later in Schlawe in Pomerania.

family

Laudie's grandfather Theodor Laudien (1801-1859) was pastor at the garrison and town church in Pillau from 1827 to 1835 and then archdeacon at the old town church in Königsberg. His son Gerhard (1902–1987) was pastor in Landsberg (East Prussia) from 1936 to 1945 , and in 1945 provisional parish pastor in Wildau ( Brandenburg province ). In 1946 he was appointed head of the Anhaltische Diakonissenanstalt in Dessau ; from 1957 to 1968 he was director of the Diakonisches Werk of the Evangelical Churches in the GDR. The son Martin was provost in Hagenow until 1971 . The granddaughter Ingrid Laudien (1934-2009) was 1994-1996 General Superintendent of the diocese Berlin the Protestant Church in Berlin-Brandenburg .

Works

  • Richard Wagner and the religion of Christianity , 1902.
  • Constanz Berneker. With Berneker's portrait and a foreword by Konrad Burdach . Charlottenburg 1909, GoogleBooks
  • Evangelical parish book for Königsberg , 1934.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Constanz Berneker: Sources (kultur-in-ostpreussen.de)
  2. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Wurzburg 2002.
personal data
SURNAME Laudia, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laudia, Wilhelm Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Schlawe , Pomerania