Wilhelm Quistorp

Grave of Wilhelm Quistorp in Ducherow

Wilhelm Quistorp (born March 23, 1824 in Greifswald ; † May 10, 1887 ibid) was an Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and champion of diakonia .

Wilhelm August Bernhard Quistorp was the second child of the surveyor and Prussian commissioner Heinrich Quistorp (1783-1853) and his wife Johanne Sophie Margarethe, née Hecht (1798-1877). The entrepreneurs Johannes Quistorp and Heinrich Quistorp were his brothers.

Quistorp studied theology in Greifswald and Halle and expanded his training with a diaconal internship in the "Rauhen Haus" near Hamburg. In 1845 he joined the Halle Wingolf . At a young age he became head of the "rescue house" in Züllchow near Stettin.

From 1858 to 1882 Quistorp was pastor in Ducherow . He founded and edited the weekly Deutsche Wacht . He later wrote for Das liebe Pommernland (1864–1868) and Deutscher Sonntagsfreund . He became chairman of the Pomeranian Teachers' Association and founded the mission and orphan foundations in Ducherow , from which the Bugenhagenstift later emerged, today's Diakoniewerk Bethanien Ducherow .

Wilhelm Quistorp was married to the daughter of a Greifswald lawyer, Hippolyte Caroline Dondorff (1828–1915). The couple had twelve children, five of whom died early.

His grave is next to the Ducherow church .

Individual evidence

↑ There he wrote a petition to the Reichstag in 1872 on the expansion of workers' protection and the ban on Sunday work, printed in the collection of sources on the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 , Section I: From the time when the Reich was founded to the Imperial Social Message (1867-1881) , 3 Volume: worker protection , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Stuttgart a. a. 1996, No. 27.

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SURNAME	Quistorp, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German clergyman and champion of diakonia
DATE OF BIRTH	March 23, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH	Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH	May 10, 1887
Place of death	Greifswald

[1] There he wrote a petition to the Reichstag in 1872 on the expansion of workers' protection and the ban on Sunday work, printed in the collection of sources on the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 , Section I: From the time when the Reich was founded to the Imperial Social Message (1867-1881) , 3 Volume: worker protection , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Stuttgart a. a. 1996, No. 27.