Wilhelm Gaigalat

Wilhelm Gaigalat as a member of the Lietuvos Taryba

Wilhelm (Wilems) Gaigalat , Lithuanian: Vilius Gaigalaitis , (born September 27, 1870 in Heydebruch , Ragnit district ; † November 30, 1945 in Bretten ) was a Prussian-Lithuanian pastor and member of the Prussian House of Representatives .

Life

He was the son of the landowner Miks Gaigalat. After attending school in Memel and Tilsit , he studied theology and philosophy at the Universities of Königsberg and Berlin .

Gaigalat was, among other things, President of the Evangelical Lutheran Consistory and Professor at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Kaunas . He represented Memel-Heydekrug from 1903 to 1918 as a Prussian MP. On May 2, 1918, Gaigalat and the Christian Social Representative Wilhelm Wallbaum (1876–1933) voted in the Prussian House of Representatives as the only members of the conservative parliamentary group - both interns - for the same right to vote instead of multiple votes .

In 1941 Gaigalat had to leave Lithuania with his wife. They moved to the German Reich, where they were not granted German citizenship despite several petitions to Adolf Hitler .

Works (selection)

The evangelical community movement among the Prussian Lithuanians: historical and contemporary. Königsberg 1904, kpbc.umk.pl (translated into Polish by Aleksander W. Bauknecht & Dawid R. Banach: "Ewangelicki ruch gromadkarski wśród Litwinów pruskich. Historia i teraźniejszość", Olsztyn 2016 ).

literature

Gaigalat, Wilems. In: Herrmann AL Degener : Wer ist’s , Berlin 1935, p. 467.
Peter Bahn: Vilius Gaigalaitis (1870–1945). A Lithuanian in Bretten . In: Bretten heads . Info, Karlsruhe 2010, ISBN 978-3-88190-609-8 , pp. 71-73
Helmut Jenkis: The " Leader's Letter " from Pastor Dr. Wilhelm Gaigalat, A supplement to the psychogram ( PDF )

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Gaigalat - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature at LitDok East Central Europe

Individual evidence

↑ See Wilhelm Stahl (Ed.): Schulthess' European History Calendar, New Series 34/1 (= 59/1) (1918). C. H. Beck, Munich 1922, p. 167.

personal data
SURNAME	Gaigalat, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gaigalaitis, Vilius; Gaigalat, Wilems
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian-Lithuanian pastor and member of the Prussian House of Representatives
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heydebruch , Ragnit district
DATE OF DEATH	November 30, 1945
Place of death	Boards

[1] See Wilhelm Stahl (Ed.): Schulthess' European History Calendar, New Series 34/1 (= 59/1) (1918). C. H. Beck, Munich 1922, p. 167.