Walter Pagels
Walter Pagels (born November 25, 1901 in Rostock , † September 8, 1977 in Ludwigslust ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and state superintendent.
Life
Walter Pagels was a son of the rector Ernst Pagels. He attended the large city school (Rostock) until he graduated from high school in Easter 1920 and then began studying Protestant theology at the University of Rostock . In 1921 he studied one semester at the University of Tübingen , returned to Rostock, went to the University of Göttingen in 1922 and completed his studies in Rostock in the winter semester of 1922/23.
From Michaelmas 1924 he attended the seminary in Schwerin. The following year he went to the Rauhe Haus in Hamburg as a senior helper . In October 1926 he became vicar in Gadebusch ; from May 1927 he was assistant preacher of the newly founded Rostock-West congregation and from Michaelis 1928 the fifth pastor of the Holy Spirit Church in Rostock for the Barnstorf settlement (today garden city / city pasture ).
Pagels was one of the critics of the seizure of power by the German Christians close to the National Socialists in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg . In June 1934 there was therefore a trial in Schwerin before a special court in which he, together with six other pastors ( Gottfried Holtz , Henning Fahrenheim , Johannes Schwartzkopff , Hans Werner Ohse and Christian Berg from Boizenburg and Viktor Wittrock from Schwerin) for "degrading" the Nazi state was charged and was convicted of violating the treachery ordinance . However, as part of a general amnesty , the sentence was waived. In the Mecklenburg Brothers Council, the governing body of the Confessing Church , he was the representative for youth work.
With the reorganization of the regional church after the end of the Second World War and the liberation from National Socialism , he became regional superintendent of the Parchim church district in the summer of 1945 .
In February 1951 the regional church sent him to Ludwigslust to succeed Heinrich Schwartze, who had resigned after long resistance, at the Bethlehem monastery .
From 1955 to the end of 1969 he worked as state superintendent of the Rostock-Land church district based in Bad Doberan .
Works
- together with Johannes Schwartzkopff , Paul Althaus and Bruno Meyer: Jesus Christ and the youth. 1924, 4th edition 1925.
- Christianity as an act of life. Schwerin: Railway 1924.
- The Protestant Rostock in the Present , in The Protestant Rostock 1531-1931. 1931.
- Johann Riebling, Mecklenburg's first superintendent in 400 years of Lutheran Mecklenburg in 1949.
literature
- Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War: with comments on the previous pastors since the Reformation. Addendum, Wismar: Self-published 1933, p. 98.
- Niklot Beste : The Schwerin Trial in June 1934. In: Heinrich Holze (Hrsg.): The Rostock Theological Faculty under two dictatorships. Festschrift for Gert Haendler. Lit-Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-6887-7 .
- 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. 7327 .
Web links
- Literature about Walter Pagels in the state bibliography MV
- Works by Walter Pagels in the state bibliography MV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry 1920 in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ^ Entry in 1921 in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ Entry in 1923 in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ Best: Process (Lit.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pagels, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and state superintendent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostock |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1977 |
| Place of death | Ludwigslust |