Walther lamp

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Walther Lampe (born September 10, 1894 in Munich-Gladbach , † September 18, 1985 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer and Evangelical Lutheran church official.

Life

Walther Lampe studied law , attended the Marburg archive school and did his doctorate . In 1924 he joined the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover as an assessor . In 1926 he became regional church councilor and legal department head for land and cemetery affairs in the regional church office in Hanover , from 1933 in the rank of higher regional church councilor . From 1933 he was part-time director of the regional church archives and in this function he established the working group of regional church archivists , of which he became secretary. Lampe was initially close to the Nazi ideology, and was a member of the NSDAP and the German Christians since 1933 . He used the National Socialist interest in church registers in the form of the Reich Office for Family Research to take care of these church sources and the church archives as a whole. To this end, he pursued the idea of ​​setting up decentralized church registry offices within the regional church. In April 1935, the first office was opened in Hanover, which bore the name "Sippenkanzlei" and, in addition to issuing Aryan certificates, was also responsible for keeping church records for all parishes in the city. In this way, Lampe was able to achieve higher security standards for the storage of the church records, but he did not worry about the consequences of the information for those who did not receive any baptism certificates or Aryan certificates. In the course of time he turned away from the German Christians and followed the line of the regional bishop August Marahrens . While he emphasized the independence of the church more, he reduced the cooperation with the Reich Office for Family Research. The resulting rejection of the state's claim to the church records did not mean, however, that Lampe had fundamentally distanced himself from the National Socialist race discourse. Hans Otte states in Luster's actions "'blind orientation' to practice with its terrible consequences".

Home care and archiving were great personal interests. In 1925 he was a co-founder of the Hanoverian local association of the Goethe Society , in 1930 co-founder and later deputy chairman of the Wilhelm Busch Society . In 1933 he was elected chairman of the Heimatbund Lower Saxony (HBN) and held this office until the association was dissolved in 1942.

In between 1934 and 1939 and from 1947 to 1974 took place after the hay around the St. John's in the Waldgaststätte around Marienberg the Marie stronghold with the annual meeting of the home Bunds Lower Saxony instead. At the opening event in 1934, Walther Lampe emphasized in his welcoming address the independence of the work of the Heimatbund with the words, “that the Heimatbund only knows one task, namely that of deepening knowledge of the Heimat among its members, with them in service to stand at home and to awaken love for home. "

Walther Lampes' ambivalent attitude towards National Socialism enabled him to make a quick new start after the Second World War . “He did not see himself compromised, he could point out that he was considered unreliable by the Gauleitung. In view of the troubles of the post-war period, a critical review seemed unnecessary to him. His pragmatism was called for again. "

Until 1962 he headed the regional church archive in Hanover and until 1960 the archive office of the Evangelical Church in Germany in Hanover (formerly archive office of the German Evangelical Church Chancellery in Breslau ). He was the initiator of the church registry office for the east, which was affiliated from 1946 to 1957. In the working group of regional church archivists he took over the chairmanship from 1947 to 1961 as well as in the re-established Heimatbund Lower Saxony (1946–1973).

Awards

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literature

  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : The Marienberg festivals. In: Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Ed.): Preserve your home, shape your home. Contributions to the 100th anniversary of the Heimatbund Lower Saxony. Hanover 2001, pp. 108-113.
  • Supplements and corrigenda to the personal dictionary on German Protestantism 1919-1949. edited by Hannelore Braun and Gertraud Grünzinger, Göttingen 2006
  • Hans Otte : Pragmatism as a leitmotif: Walther Lampe, the Reich Office for Family Research and Archive Maintenance in the Hanoverian Regional Church during the Nazi era. In: Manfred Gailus: Church administrative assistance: the Church and the persecution of the Jews in the "Third Reich". Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-55340-4 , pp. 131-194.
  • Hans Otte: You have to handle the archive materials yourself. On the history of the regional church archive in Hanover. (PDF; 9.6 MB) In: Stefan Flesch, Udo Wennemuth (Hrsg.): From Protestant archives (new series of “Allgemeine Mitteilungen”). On behalf of the Association of Church Archives in the Working Group of Archives and Libraries in the Protestant Church, No. 49, Hanover 2009.
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Lamp, Walther. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 381.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans Otte: Pragmatism as a leitmotif: Walther Lampe, the Reich Office for Family Research and Archive Maintenance in the Hanoverian Regional Church during the Nazi era. In: Manfred Gailus: Kirchliche Amtshilfe: the Church and the persecution of Jews in the "Third Reich" , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-55340-4 , pp. 131–194, pp. 174 f.
  2. ↑ Chronicle of the Wilhelm-Busch-Gesellschaft  ( page can no longer be called up , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 19, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wilhelm-busch-museum.de  
  3. ^ Annual report of the Heimatbund Lower Saxony. 1934, p. 3.
  4. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Lamp, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich-Gladbach
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1985
Place of death Hanover