Wilhelm Rauls

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Wilhelm Heinrich Erich Rauls (born January 11, 1896 in Deensen , † March 24, 1985 in Mölln ) was a German Lutheran pastor, church councilor, provost and local researcher.

Life

Born into a merchant family, Wilhelm Rauls was born in Deensen in the Duchy of Braunschweig in 1896 . He studied Protestant theology in Göttingen , Tübingen , Marburg and Rostock . He then worked as a pastor in the Evangelical Association in Braunschweig from 1925 to 1926 , before he held a pastor's position in Halle (Weserbergland) from 1926 to 1933 . From 1933 to 1943 he was pastor at the Magnikirche in Braunschweig and then until 1962 pastor at the Marktkirche in Goslar. There he was also provost of the newly founded provost office.

Rauls was a member of the church government from 1935 to 1945 during the National Socialist era . In the church struggle he supported the middle line of regional bishop Helmuth Johnsen , who saw himself as a "conscious Lutheran" and convinced National Socialist. After the end of the Second World War , Rauls was a member of the Landeskirchentag from 1946 to 1964. From 1952 to 1964 he was again a member of the church government. He paid particular attention to the design of liturgical services, about the historical arrangements of which he published.

Rauls was also active as a local researcher, describing the history of his home villages Deensen, Braak and Schorborn, located on the edge of the Solling , in village chronicles.

Rauls died in Mölln in March 1985 at the age of 89. The Wilhelm-Rauls-Strasse in his birthplace Deensen was named after him.

Fonts (selection)

  • The order of the main divine service in the Braunschweig Evangelical-Lutheran regional church: After Agende 1. A handout for understanding uz introductory part , Wolfenbüttel 1958.
  • Deensen: a village before the Solling through the ages , Weserland-Verlag, Holzminden, 1967.
  • Piety and confession in the Braunschweig regional church . In: Landeskirchenamt Wolfenbüttel (Ed.): Four Centuries Lutheran Church in Braunschweig , Braunschweig 1968.
  • The sex v. Elze, v. Campe , Weserland-Verlag, Holzminden, 1972.
  • Stadtoldendorf under the Homburg and the Amelungsborn monastery , Lönneker, Stadtoldendorf 1974.
  • From the regalia in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig . In: Yearbook of the Society for Church History in Lower Saxony, Vol. 74, 1976.
  • The funeral in the history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig . In: Yearbook of the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony, Volume 78, 1980, pp. 115-143.
  • Deensen, Braak and Schorborn, three villages in front of the Solling , Holzminden 1983.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietrich Kuessner: The Braunschweigische Landeskirche in the 20th century . In: Friedrich Weber, Birgit Hoffmann, Hans-Jürgen Engelking (eds.): From the baptism of the Saxons to the church in Lower Saxony. History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig , Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2010, p. 386.
personal data
SURNAME Rauls, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rauls, Wilhelm Heinrich Erich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran pastor, church councilor, provost and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Deensen
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1985
Place of death Mölln