Waldemar Thomson
Waldemar Karl Thomson (born August 28, 1897 in Haggers , † February 1945 in Posen ) was a Baltic German theologian.
Life
family
Waldemar was a son of the pastor and provost Constantin Thomson and Meta, geb. Wieckmann. He married in 1922 in Hapsal with Stella von Krusenstjern (* 1899), a daughter of the doctor and local politician Gottfried von Krusenstjern (1868-1917).
Career
Thomson first received home lessons , then attended the cathedral school in Reval from 1907 to 1915 . in the years 1915 to 1918 and 1920 to 1922 he studied theology in Dorpat .
He served in the Baltic regiment throughout the Estonian War of Freedom . From 1922 to 1923 he completed his probationary year with Pastor R. Luther and in 1924 became Pastor's Adjunct . At the same time he was a teacher at Rathlef's private girls' high school in Dorpat . From 1925 to 1934 he was pastor-adjunct and from 1934 to 1939 senior pastor at the St. Nikolai Church in Pernau , at the same time religion teacher at the German school there. From 1938 to 1939 he was the last provost for the Baltic German church system in Estonia before the Baltic Germans were resettled in 1939. From 1939 he was pastor at St. Lucas Church in Poznan . At the beginning of 1945 he was drafted into the Volkssturm and died in the fighting in Posen.
literature
- Gotthard Hoerschelmann: Waldemar Thomson: A life picture of the last provost for the German church system in Estonia . Hamburg 1965.
- Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra Hörner: Thomson, Waldemar Karl . In: Lexicon of German-Language Literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg. From the Middle Ages to the present . 1, AG. De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 1306 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Wilhelm Neander : Lexicon of Baltic German Theologians since 1920. v.Hirschheydt, Hannover-Döhren 1967. P. 135.
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Waldemar Thomson. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Literature by and about Waldemar Thomson in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Register entry German biography
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thomson, Waldemar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thomson, Waldemar Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baltic German theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haggers |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1945 |
| Place of death | Poses |