Walter Schröder (Pastor)

Walter Georg Karl Schröder (born April 30, 1884 in Anklam ; † May 5, 1955 in Berlin-Köpenick ) was a German Protestant clergyman and writer.

Life

Walter Schröder attended high school in his hometown. After graduating from high school, he studied Protestant theology and classical philology at the University of Halle and at the University of Greifswald from 1903 . After working as a teacher in Neubrandenburg and editor of a daily newspaper, he passed his first theological examination in September 1914.

In 1914 he became vicar at the Luther Church in Pommerensdorf near Stettin , until he passed the second theological examination in April 1917. In September of the same year he was ordained pastor and then became the full-time manager of the Pomeranian Women's Aid and the Evangelical Church Aid Association in Stettin. He was also active in local politics and culture in Szczecin.

Signature of Walter Schröder (1942)

In 1928 he took over a pastor's position in Reinberg and studied economics in Greifswald. At the beginning of 1933 he took over a house of education on behalf of the city of Berlin.

In 1934 he became chairman of the Reich Pomeranian Federation and the Low German Association for Berlin and Mark Brandenburg. He tried to reconcile his intentions in this area with National Socialism.

After the war he worked in home pastoral care.

Act

Schröder's most important commitment concerned the Low German language . He was instrumental in the reintroduction of Low German in the church. After the founding of a Pomeranian regional association of Low German associations, the first Low German service was celebrated in the Bugenhagen Church in Stettin. In the following years a Low German songbook was published, and in 1923 a Low German Week was held in Stralsund.

On the 50th anniversary of Fritz Reuter's death in 1924, Schröder led a Low German festival service in Eisenach. In 1927 and 1928 a collection of pastors appeared who preached in Low German.

Schröder worked on an amalgamation that was only founded in 1990 by the Plattdüütsch group in de Kark .

Honors

• 1925 Licentiate for his church-social work (awarded by the Theological Faculty of the University of Greifswald)

Works

• Snurrig Minschen, 1907
• Schnickschnack, 1908
• Fresh be the heart, 1910
• On the way. New poems 1912
• On sunny paths. Collected all kinds of nursery rhymes, 1915;
• Ick Far an Eikbom, H. 1, 1916; H. 2, 1917;
• Von Hus un Heimat, 1920, 19222, 19253, 19344, 19395 (each "vermihrt Uplag");
• Plattdütsch Kirchenleeder un plattdütsch Gottesdeinst-Ornung, 1921, 19222 (vermihrt Uplag), 19253, 19324;
• Plattd. Church services in Pomerania, in: Pommernkalender 3, 1922, 62–65;
• Ed .: Plattdütsch Sprak un Ort. Official news paper for the Plattdütschen Landsverband Pomerania, 1922–23;
• The year round. A picture book for young and old. By Marianne La Grange. Verses from WS, 1924;
• In the Wandering Step of Life, 1929;
• Second Letter to the Thessalonians, 1929;
• Plattd. Poetry with a special relation to Pomerania, 1930;
• Objectives of the »Pomeranian Home Care«, in: Pommersche Heimatpflege I, 1930, no. 3, 77–80;
• Klaus Groth letters, 1931;
• Plattd. Church services, in: Demminer Tageblatt, 100th year, No. 305, December 31, 1931, 20th supplement;
• By Low German poets. Collected Essays, 1932;
• Wallenstein before Stralsund. From the [plattd.] Sermon at the 700th anniversary of the city of Stralsund on July 24, 1934 (loose leaf in the estate); * Paths into light. I, Words for Life, 1937;
• II, Words of Faith, 1939; Märkische Balladen, 1939;
• When the home bells ring, 1939, 19432;
• From the dune to the bunker. Pomeranian Seal I, 1940;
• Ed .: II, Von der Düne, 1940;
• Land by the sea. Pomeranian Poetry of the Present, 1943;
• Esther. Religious drama, 1954 (unpublished).

Texts set to music

• Motet “Hew no fear nich un fear” (1924) v. Philipp Gretscher (1859–1937)
• Ders .: Three spiritual chants on flat sheet. Poems by WS, 1927
• Albert Fröhling (Ed.): Pommernsang, a Plattdütsch Liederbauk, 1926
• WS: Poems that can be sung, four of which are set to music twice, in: Von Hus un Heimat, 19344, 78 (24 texts)

literature

• Heinrich Kröger :  Walter Schröder (pastor). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 992-995.
• Heinrich Kröger: Commemoration of the 100th birthday of Lic. Walter Schröder . In: Pommern 22 (1984), H. 3, pp. 9-11.
• Fritz Raeck : Pomeranian literature. Samples and dates. Pomeranian Central Association, Hamburg 1969, p. 355.

Web links

• Literature about Walter Schröder in the state bibliography MV
• Walter Schröder in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)