Walter Kaiser (pastor)

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Walter Corneille Joseph Kaiser (born June 22, 1884 in Lößnitz , † July 17, 1967 in Dresden ) was a German Protestant pastor and prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp .

Life

Kaiser came from a Protestant pastor's family. His father Karl Kaiser was superintendent in Radeberg . He should not be confused with Pastor Georg Walter Kaiser, who was a member of the Confessing Church.

After attending elementary school , he obtained his university entrance qualification at the Fürstenschule St. Afra . From 1905 he studied philosophy and Protestant theology in Leipzig . After taking the first theological exam , he worked as a private tutor at Kuckuckstein Castle for six months . In 1911 he laid the Second Theological Examination and was named pastor ordained . In 1916 he became pastor and later senior pastor in Waldenburg (Saxony) . In 1934 he took over the first pastoral position in the parish of the Ascension Church (Dresden) -Leuben. At the end of 1936 he replaced the "brown" church council with a local church committee, to which Reimer Mager also belonged. He was particularly resented for his active resistance in August 1937 to the violent takeover of the church regiment in Saxony by the National Socialists. The Gestapo took him into “ protective custody ” and delivered Kaiser to the Dachau concentration camp on May 30, 1941, where he was taken to the pastors' block .

In April 1945 he returned to the service of his parish. In September 1946 he was elected to the Dresden City Council for the CDU. In 1947 he took part in the first German People's Congress for the VVN . He did not retire until 1957 and left his estate to the Saxon State and University Library (SLUB) in Dresden .

Publications

  • Karl Richard Kaiser (Karl Richard Kaiser, Gerhard Martin Kaiser, Walter Corneille Josef Kaiser as eds.): The Schönburg-Ore Mountains Christ and Christmas play

literature

  • Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Ascension Church in Dresden-Leuben
  • DER SUNDAY Nr.4 from January 29th 2017 "A light in Hell"

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Catalog on the Kaiser estate: Kaiser, Karl, Superintendent, Radeberg, 1846–1924, Mscr.Dresd.App.1196; Kaiser, Walter, s. Sohn, Pfarrer, Dresden-Leuben, Dachau concentration camp 1941–45, 1884–1967, Mscr.Dresd.App.1197, [Dresden 1962], online edition: urn: nbn: de: bsz: 14-db-id3301447662 , accessed January 10, 2012.
  2. ↑ Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, archive for Christian-democratic politics: Az. 01-531-097
  3. ^ Information from Ev.-Luth. Parish Dresden-Leuben from August 4, 2011
  4. ↑ State Church Archives Saxony, holdings 5 ​​and 85

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personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaiser, Walter Corneille Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, member of the Confessing Church (BK) and prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Loessnitz
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1967
Place of death Dresden