Wilhelm von Hengstenberg

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Memorial stone on the Berlin Cathedral Cemetery II

Wilhelm Hengstenberg , later von Hengstenberg (born February 9, 1804 in Elberfeld , † September 25, 1880 in Berlin ), was a German Protestant clergyman. Most recently he served as the court preacher of Kaiser Wilhelm I at the Berlin Cathedral .

Life

Hengstenberg, the son of a pharmacist, studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Erlangen and Berlin . He then worked for Prince Wilhelm , the youngest brother of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. , as educator of his sons Adalbert and Waldemar . Here he received the title of Privy Councilor and was raised to the nobility in 1837. In 1841 he became pastor in Teltow and in 1850 part-time superintendent of the church district Berlin-Cölln-Land. In 1854 he was appointed fourth court and cathedral preacher in Berlin. In 1863 he rose to the third, in 1871 to the second court and cathedral preacher. From 1873 until his death he was court preacher. From 1862 he was also provost of the Heiligengrabe monastery . He was buried in Domfriedhof II on Müllerstrasse in Berlin.

With his counterparts Rudolf Kögel , Wilhelm Baur and Adolf Stoecker , he formed the so-called “Court Preacher Party”, which succeeded in reshaping Prussian church policy in the conservative sense in the last two decades of Wilhelm I's reign. In literature he is occasionally confused with his distant relative Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg (also von Hengstenberg ), who worked as a theology professor in Berlin from 1826 until his death in 1869 and also had a great influence at the Prussian court.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ New general German nobility lexicon Volume 4. Voigt, Leipzig 1863, p. 307 f.
  2. ↑ Werner von Kieckebusch: Chronicle of the monastery to the holy grave . From the Reformation to the middle of the 20th century. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 173.
  3. ↑ Thomas Buske: Throne and Altar. The role of the Berlin court preachers in the age of Wilhelminism. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1970.
personal data
SURNAME Hengstenberg, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hengstenberg, Wilhelm (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German evangelical clergyman, court preacher in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1880
Place of death Berlin