Wilhelm Faber (clergyman, 1845)

Memorial stone on the Berlin Cathedral Cemetery II

Wilhelm Adolf Reinhold Faber , (born December 3, 1845 in Gehrenrode , † December 7, 1916 in Ilsenburg ) was a German Protestant theologian . From 1893 to 1911 he was general superintendent for Berlin .

Life

Faber was born in Gehrenrode, now a district of Bad Gandersheim , as the son of a pastor. He attended the large school in Wolfenbüttel and then studied theology in Halle , Göttingen and Erlangen from 1864 to 1867 . He then worked for some time in Hedeper in the Wolfenbüttel district as an assistant preacher before he became pastor in Mansfeld in 1871 . Here he rose to superintendent in 1880. In 1882 he became superintendent in Bitterfeld . In 1885 he moved to Magdeburg as the first pastor to the St. Johannis parish , where he was also appointed superintendent in 1888.

In 1891 Faber went to Berlin as the third court and cathedral preacher and in 1893 took over the general superintendent there as the successor to Bruno Brückner . Faber gave the last sermon in the old Berlin Cathedral on October 2, 1892 , before it was demolished. In 1894 he became second court and cathedral preacher and in 1898 real senior consistorial advisor and provost of St. Nikolai and St. Marien in Berlin. He was also provost of the Heiligengrabe monastery and canon in Brandenburg . He was a member of the Prussian mansion from 1904 to 1916 . Faber retired on October 1, 1911. He died in Ilsenburg in 1916 and was buried in the cathedral cemetery in Berlin.

Fonts

Faber was famous as a pulpit speaker. Many of his sermons have been published.

Wartburg and Kyffhäuser. Ceremonial sermons and speeches on special ecclesiastical and patriotic occasions , Magdeburg, 1891.
Light and Salvation, Sermons , 1896.
Jerusalem and Vineta: Sermons on Free Epistolic Scripture , 1897.

literature

Klaus Juergens: Faber, Wilhelm Adolf Reinhold . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 173 .
Julius Kurth : Memories of D. Wilhelm Faber (1845–1916), former general superintendent in Berlin , Berlin, 1925.

Web links

Short biography at www.berlin.friedparks.de

Individual evidence

↑ Friederike Rupprecht (Ed.): Reading times: the library in the Stift zum Heiligengrabe monastery from 1600 to 1900. (Heiligengrabe cultural and museum location; Vol. 3). Berlin: Lukas 2011 ISBN 978-3-86732-110-5 , p. 44.
↑ Hartmut Walravens : Julius Kurth (1870–1949): Letters to the poet Börries von Münchhausen (1874–1945) , Norderstedt, 2017, Ref. 109.

predecessor	Office	successor
Bruno Brückner	Provost to St. Nikolai in Berlin 1898 - 1911
Bruno Brückner	General Superintendent for Berlin 1893 - 1911	Christoph Friedrich Lahusen

personal data
SURNAME	Faber, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Faber, Wilhelm Adolf Reinhold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	December 3, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gehrenrode
DATE OF DEATH	December 7, 1916
Place of death	Ilsenburg

[1] Friederike Rupprecht (Ed.): Reading times: the library in the Stift zum Heiligengrabe monastery from 1600 to 1900. (Heiligengrabe cultural and museum location; Vol. 3). Berlin: Lukas 2011 ISBN 978-3-86732-110-5 , p. 44.

[2] Hartmut Walravens : Julius Kurth (1870–1949): Letters to the poet Börries von Münchhausen (1874–1945) , Norderstedt, 2017, Ref. 109.