Wehrenfennig (theologian family)

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Wehrenfennig , also Wehrenpfennig , is a family of theologians from Halberstadt who worked primarily in Austria and the Sudeten countries. They are connected by marriage to the branch of the Overbeck family, which was also active in Austria during the period when Protestantism was first tolerated at the end of the 18th and early 19th centuries .

Standard sequence (extract)

  1. Gabriel Gottlieb Wehrenfennig (1704–1764), Cancellarius of the Franconian-Westphalian ambassador to the Perpetual Diet in Regensburg
    1. Julius Theodor Wehrenfennig (1753–1834), first Protestant pastor of the tolerance community of Gosau - the Wehrenfennig house is one of the oldest surviving wooden houses in the Gosau Valley and serves as a meeting place
      1. Johann Theodor Wehrenfennig (1794–1856), 1820–1853 pastor in Gosau , 1855 pastor in the tolerance community of Goisern and Schladming , 1833 senior of the Protestant parishes in Upper Austria. In 1855 he became superintendent of the superintendent AB Upper Austria, ∞ Maria Theresa Overbeck (1705–1855), daughter of Johann Georg Overbeck , pastor of the tolerance community Goisern, senior of the Evangelical Church in Upper Austria → son of Eleonora Maria Jauch (1732–1797) married Overbeck
        1. Adolf Wilhelm Wehrenfennig (1819–1882), pastor in Neukematen and Gosau, senior
          1. Wilhelm Johann Theodor Wehrenfennig (1864–1945), pastor of the Neukematen tolerance community
          2. Arnold Wehrenfennig (1867–1937), pastor in Innsbruck
            1. Walter Wehrenfennig (* 1898), pastor of the tolerance community Goisern
              1. Werner Wehrenfennig (* 1932), pastor in Reutte
        2. Karl Hermann Wehrenfennig (1822–1881), architect, built the churches in Gosau, Gmunden and Vöcklabruck
        3. Moritz Conrad Ernst Wehrenfennig (1826–1895), pastor and senior in Goisern, ∞ Luise Hertlein (1821–1897), known far beyond the borders of the country for her charitable work, founded and directed a toddler school and a Protestant educational center in Goisern, today "Luise-Wehrenfennig-Haus"
      2. Bernhard Friedrich Wehrenfennig (1805–1855), pastor and senior in Gosau
        1. Gustav Theodor Constantin Wehrenfennig (1842–1926), pastor of the tolerance communities of Klein Bressel, Gnesau and Eferding
          1. Erich Edmund Wehrenfennig (1872–1968), pastor in Trautenau and Gablonz , senior and church president (regional bishop) of the German Evangelical Church in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia
          2. Friedrich Wehrenfennig (1875–1953), vicar in Hotzendorf and Neutitschein , pastor in Morchenstern , Iglau and Aussig
          3. Martha Wehrenberg (1878–1956) ∞ Adolf Heller (1875–1958), councilor in Bamberg

Gottfried Paulus Wehrenfennig (1873–1950) Vicar in Meran , travel preacher in Pilsen , Prague and Aussig , pastor in the Turn district in Teplitz , long-time federal leader of the Federation of Germans, close friend of the Reich Governor in the Sudetenland Konrad Henlein and first holder of the Federation's Golden Decoration of the Germans in Bohemia. "Gottfried Wehrenfennig ... was the chairman of the Federation of Germans, who first unified the Sudeten Germans in non-political areas before Konrad Henlein achieved their political unification ..."

Charitas Marie Wehrenfennig (1887–1917) ∞ Alfred Strenger (* 1880)

Manfred Apollos Strenger-Wehrenfennig (1905–1988), Bishop of the High Church in Austria

literature

  • Home and church. Festschrift for Church President D. Wehrenfennig. Heidelberg and Vienna 1963 (supplement: family tree of the Wehrenfennig family), portraits of all theologians, p. 133ff
  • Erika Schumann and Walter Wehrenfennig: On the genealogy table of the Wehrenfennig family , in: Heimat und Kirche , p. 126.
  • Isabel Sellheim : The family of the painter Friedrich Overbeck (1789–1869) in genealogical overviews. Neustadt an der Aisch 1989, ISBN 3-7686-5091-X .
  • Bernhard Friedrich Wehrenfennig, Grateful memory of Julius Theodor Wehrenfennig, for 50 years as a Protestant pastor in Upper Austria. Linz 1935
  • Erich Wehrenfennig: My life and work. Supplements to Faith and Homeland , magazine of the Association of Protestant Sudetendeutscher eV, issue 2, Melsungen 1956 ( online text version )
  • Julius Theodor Wehrenfennig, the life story of the first Protestant preacher in Gosau 1784–1834 , Oskar Sakrausy (ed.), Vienna no year.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Friedrich Wehrenfennig: Grateful memory of Julius Theodor Wehrenfennig, for 50 years as a Protestant pastor in Upper Austria. Linz 1935, p. 5
  2. ↑ Acta comitialia publica de Anno 1742 issue 2 page 720
  3. ^ House of Encounter ( Memento from September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Leopold Temmel: Evangelical in Upper Austria. History and existence of the Evangelical Church , Linz 1982, p. 81 ( Online ( Memento from September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ))
  5. ↑ Waltraud Heindl: The Protocols of the Austrian Council of Ministers, 1848–1867 , 1987, p. 43 fn. 7
  6. ↑ World's evangelical alliance (JM Mitchell, ed.): The religious condition of Christendom, described in a series of papers presented to the seventh general conference, 1879 , p. 121: “The wife of Pastor Wehrenpfennig, at Goisern, in Upper Austria , deserves special mention for her zealous care for the young "
  7. ↑ www.lwfh.at
  8. ↑ Herzberg in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon / Gre. u. ed. by Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz. Continued by Traugott Bautz, Vol. 19 (2001), pp. 1511-1516
  9. ^ Junge Kirche , Volume 8, 1940, p. 110
  10. ↑ Gerhard Zauner: Lost Treasures in the Salzkammergut: The Search for the Mysterious Nazi Gold , 2003
  11. ↑ Evangelical Association for German Settlers and Emigrants: Der Deutsche Auswanderer , Volumes 32–36, p. 192
  12. ↑ See "Hochkirche" in: Österreich-Lexikon, Volume 1 , 1966, p. 506