Walter Trepte

Walter Trepte (born September 21, 1903 in Naumburg (Saale) , † December 1982 ) was a German Protestant clergyman.

Career

Trepte was born as the son of the clergyman Adolf Trepte. After studying theology and ordination, he went to military chaplaincy . From 1930 he was local pastor in Königsberg (Prussia) and from 1933 military district pastor for the military district I (Königsberg) . During the Second World War he served as chief military chaplain in the 3rd and 16th Army (1939), with the Commander-in-Chief in France (1940) and with the 11th Army (1941/42)

After the Second World War he lived in Frankfurt am Main. He was chairman of the state association of Hesse of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (VDK) and was elected president of the federal association in September 1960. He remained in office until October 1970. During his term of office, he was responsible for looking after the war graves of the First World War and the Franco-Prussian War from 1870–1871.

Honors

1968: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1970: Honorary President of the German War Graves Commission

literature

Herrmann AL Degener , Walter Habel: Who is who?: The German who's who . Volume 18. Societäts-Verlag, 1975

Individual evidence

^ Siegfried Hermle (ed.): Handbook of the German Evangelical Churches 1918 to 1949: Organs - Offices - Associations - Personnel. Volume 1: Supraregional institutions. Edited by Heinz Boberach , Carsten Nicolaisen and Ruth Papst (= work on contemporary church history 18). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 9-783-525557846, pp. 451, 459.

personal data
SURNAME	Trepte, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH	September 21, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Naumburg (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH	December 1982

[1] Siegfried Hermle (ed.): Handbook of the German Evangelical Churches 1918 to 1949: Organs - Offices - Associations - Personnel. Volume 1: Supraregional institutions. Edited by Heinz Boberach , Carsten Nicolaisen and Ruth Papst (= work on contemporary church history 18). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 9-783-525557846, pp. 451, 459.