Victor Praefcke

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Victor Ernst Adolf Praefcke , also Präfcke (* July 1, 1842 in Weitin, today part of Neubrandenburg ; † March 25, 1931 in Neustrelitz ) was a German educator and Evangelical Lutheran clergyman.

Life

Victor Praefcke was a son of the Weitiner pastor Johann Carl (Martin Praefcke) (1805–1869) and his wife Charlotte, b. Brewer (1806-1859). The lawyer Robert Praefcke (1831-1910) was his older brother.

Victor Praefcke studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Erlangen and Berlin from 1860 and at the University of Rostock from October 1862 . As was customary at the time, he initially worked as a private tutor at Gut Augustenruh near Güstrow . From 1866 to 1874 he was a religion teacher at the Carolinum grammar school (Neustrelitz) . On July 5, 1874, he was appointed pastor in Prillwitz, now a district of Hohenzieritz . In April 1878 he moved to the city ​​church Neustrelitz as first pastor and consistorial councilor with responsibility for school supervision . In 1904 he was appointed senior consistorial councilor and in 1916 consistorial president. In 1917 he retired.

Praefcke was a board member of the Association of Friends of Natural History in Mecklenburg, a member of the Mecklenburg Heimatbund and from 1926 a member of the Mecklenburg-Strelitzer Association for History and Local History.

Glass window donated by Victor and Lucie Praefcke in the town church of Neustrelitz

Since April 17, 1868 he was married to Lucie, b. Stein, the daughter of the manor owner Ludwig Stein on Augustenruh. The couple had a daughter, Martha, who later became the district judge Dr. jur. Hans Müller married in Neustrelitz, as well as a son Viktor (1872–1962), who became an admiral doctor. On their 60th wedding anniversary, the couple donated a stained glass window in the town church of Neustrelitz that shows the baptism of Jesus.

Fonts

  • About the Catholic doctrine of superfluous works and evangelical counsels. School program Carolinum Gymnasium 1869

literature

  • Karl Rieck : Victor Praefcke. In: History of the Carolinum grammar school in the first century of its existence. Festschrift for the centenary celebration on October 10, 1906. Bohl, Neustrelitz 1906, pp. 67–68
  • Georg Krüger : The pastors in Stargard since the Reformation. In: Year books of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity 69 (1904), pp. 1–270 ( full text ), here p. 150
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7747 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7744 .
  2. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7745 .
  3. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Praefcke, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Praefcke, Victor Ernst Adolf (full name); Prefects
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Weitin, today part of Neubrandenburg
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1931
Place of death Neustrelitz