Waldemar Rode

Waldemar Rode (* 6. August 1903 in Hamburg , † 26. February 1960 ibid ) was a German pastor.

Heilandskirche in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst

Life

Waldemar Rode grew up as the son of a family of merchants and theologians in Hamburg. He first studied German and history in Freiburg , then Protestant theology in Marburg and Göttingen. From 1929 he worked as a parish pastor at the Heilandskirche in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst . In 1937, after an Advent sermon, Rode wrote the poem “Tröstet, Tröstet”, says the Lord , which was included in the Protestant hymn book in a version set to music by Hans Friedrich Micheelsen , the director of the church music school (EG 15).

During the Second World War, Rode was used as a soldier. After his return from captivity, he campaigned for the reconstruction of the Heilandskirche, which was badly damaged in a bombing in 1944. Rode traveled a lot abroad for the Gustav-Adolf-Werk .

literature

Gerhard Engelsberger: Waldemar Rode (1903-1960). On detours to the consolation community . In: Ders: Images of God's Coming. Poets, pictures and message of the Advent carols. Evangelical Press Association for Baden eV, Karlsruhe 1992, ISBN 3-87210-341-5 , pp. 133-140.
Dietrich Wölfel: Waldemar Rode . In: Wolfgang Herbst (ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, p. 259.

Footnotes

^ ^A ^b Dietrich Wölfel: Waldemar Rode . In: Wolfgang Herbst (ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, p. 259.
^ Gerhard Engelsberger: Waldemar Rode (1903-1960). On detours to the consolation community . In: Ders: Images of God's Coming. Poets, pictures and message of the Advent carols. Evangelical Press Association for Baden eV, Karlsruhe 1992, pp. 133–140.
↑ Sabine Reyeros-Petsch, Gregor Rohmann ( arrangement ): Archive of the Heilandskirche Uhlenhorst (= publications of the archive of the church district Alt-Hamburg ), edited by Gerhard Paasch, vol. 32. Hamburg 2006.

personal data
SURNAME	Rode, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pastor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 6, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	February 26, 1960
Place of death	Hamburg

[Dietrich_Wölfel-1] A ^b Dietrich Wölfel: Waldemar Rode . In: Wolfgang Herbst (ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, p. 259.

[2] Gerhard Engelsberger: Waldemar Rode (1903-1960). On detours to the consolation community . In: Ders: Images of God's Coming. Poets, pictures and message of the Advent carols. Evangelical Press Association for Baden eV, Karlsruhe 1992, pp. 133–140.

[3] Sabine Reyeros-Petsch, Gregor Rohmann ( arrangement ): Archive of the Heilandskirche Uhlenhorst (= publications of the archive of the church district Alt-Hamburg ), edited by Gerhard Paasch, vol. 32. Hamburg 2006.