Walter Gabriel

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Walter Gabriel (born October 5, 1887 in Oberschmon ; † August 27, 1983 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German Protestant theologian, member of the Confessing Church (BK) and prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp .

Life

Gabriel attended elementary school and in 1905 obtained his university entrance qualification at the grammar school in our monastery in Magdeburg . He studied Protestant theology and passed his theological exams with success. After that he was parish administrator in Koßdorf and Langenrieth from 1912 . He was then employed in Zeitz as an assistant preacher. In Zeitz he lived at Johannastraße 1. In 1915 he was elected pastor of the local community in Draschwitz . In the last year of the First World War, in 1918, he worked as a hospital chaplain in Magdeburg and also served as a field preacher on a voluntary basis .

In 1921 Gabriel applied to Cuxhaven for a service as a seaman's priest . After two years he was elected pastor at the Laurentiuskirche in Halle (Saale) - a position that he held for almost forty years from 1923.

After the transfer of power to the Nazi Party in 1933 Gabriel joined the Pastors in and the "closed Young Reformation movement " on. In 1934 he became a member of the Confessing Church of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony and took over the chairmanship of the Halle District Brotherhood Council . He also acted as a representative for popular missions . Gabriel was a participant in the confessional synods of Barmen , Berlin-Dahlem , Augsburg and Bad Oeynhausen . These activities earned him the hostility of the Nazi authorities. In 1937 and 1938 he was temporarily taken into “ protective custody ”. In 1940 he was deported to the Dachau concentration camp and assigned to the pastors' block . In 1943 he reported to the Wehrmacht medical service in Halle.

When the Nazi regime was eliminated and he was released from military service, he returned to his old pastor in Halle, where he worked until 1962.

After his death, Walter Gabriel was buried in a grave of honor in the Laurentiusfriedhof (grave location G.02. 03-05).

estate

  • From his estate is kept in the holdings of the University Library in Halle : Signature Yi 25 IG 1 Gabriel, Walter (1887–1983); Protestant theologian, pastor in Halle / Saale: 1 card to JS; Halle / Saale October 25, 1938

Publications

  • Church and Community , Berlin 1914 (Vaterländ. Verl.- & Kunstanstalt)
  • German evangelism , Leipzig 1920 (Dörffling & Franke)
  • Gandhi, Christ and we Christians , Halle 1931 (orphanage)
  • D. Martin Luther, von den Jüden: Luther's Christian anti-Semitism according to his writings , Göttingen 1936 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht)
  • People's mission and core community in the service of the renewal of our Protestant Church , Berlin-Dahlem, 1947 (Christl. Zeitschriftenverlag)

literature

  • Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-55761-2 , pp. 84 ( books.google.de ).
  • Werner Dietrich: Walter Gabriel: Lifelines of a confessional pastor. Druck-Zuck, Halle 2012, ISBN 978-3-940744-47-0 .
  • Silvia Zöller: Halle: imprisonment in a concentration camp for belief . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . December 4, 2012 ( mz-web.de ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Hofmann: Zeitzer residents G. (No longer available online.) Genealogy of the Hofmann family with chronicles in the Zeitz area, archived from the original on September 8, 2012 ; accessed on September 29, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Graves of honor in the Laurentiusfriedhof . Laurentius-Gemeinde am Neumarkt zu Halle , June 2012, accessed September 29, 2016.
  3. ^ Estates: I Correspondence . University and State Library (ULB) Saxony-Anhalt, accessed September 29, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Gabriel, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and member of the Confessing Church
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberschmon
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1983
Place of death Hall