Wolf-Dietrich von Kurnatowski

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Wolf-Dietrich von Kurnatowski (born December 20, 1908 in Crone an der Brahe , † March 9, 1972 in Braunschweig ) was a German canon lawyer and pastor of the Christian Community .

Life

Wolf-Dietrich von Kurnatowski came from the line Wola, Branch Miąskowo, the Polish Uradelgeschlechts Kurnatowski . Born in Crone an der Brahe in the former province of Posen, he passed his Abitur examination in Dresden in 1927 and began studying law at the Humboldt University in Berlin in the winter semester of 1927/28 . In the same semester he joined the then RSC-Corps Saxonia-Berlin. By deed of 20 September 1933, he was at the University of Greifswald to Dr. iur. PhD.

After completing his studies and his legal traineeship, the doctor of law (Dr. Jur.) Initially worked as a consistorial councilor in the administration of the Evangelical Church of the Mark Brandenburg in Berlin and became a member of the government in 1940. In 1937 he married Hilde Wirstorf, a graduate economist, with whom he had two children, Friederike and Hans-Andreas. After the end of the Second World War he turned to the Christian community and became their pastor in Braunschweig. One of his special merits is his commitment to the restoration of the Sankt Leonhard Chapel in Braunschweig as part of the monument protection, which served as a church for the Christian community in Braunschweig since the 2nd Advent 1947, which Kurnatowski headed as pastor until his death. He wrote two writings on the history of Sankt Leonhard, which found echo both in urban historical treatises on Braunschweig and in medical-historical publications on the treatment of leprosy , as there was also an infirmary hospital in Sankt Leonhard. The mention of his death in the Braunschweig city chronicle underlines the importance of his work in Braunschweig after the Second World War. He was the author of the genealogy of the Kurnatowski family . Furthermore, the foundation, construction and management of the Frankenberg old people's home in Goslar was essentially his work. In an obituary of the Christian community it says after his death: "... He was the most loyal one. His legal mind, his selfless concern for entrusted human destinies and the unusual love for work, also for detailed work, characterize his character he all possible relationships with his human environment: starting with his student union, to which he remained loyal until death, through all urban and rural authorities and administrations to the brotherly neighborhood of both Christian denominations ... It will be very difficult, Wolf To replace Dietrich von Kurnatowski here on earth .... ".

Fonts

  • The procedural provisions of the German Youth Courts Act of February 16, 1923 and the Austrian Federal Act of July 18, 1928 on the Treatment of Young Criminals: A Comparative Legal Presentation. Greifswald 1933, DNB 570818796 .
  • The St. Leonhard Chapel in Braunschweig: its restoration and monument preservation design. National Association for Homeland Security, Braunschweig 1957, DNB 452656230 .
  • Sankt Leonhard vor Braunschweig: History of the hospital, the church and the farm. Orphanage printing and publishing house, Braunschweig 1958, DNB 452656222 .
  • The green sack . In: Christian Community. Volume 24, 1962, p. 182f.
  • Genealogy of the Kurnatowski family. Braunschweig 1964.

literature

  • Carl Weigandt: History of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin to Aachen 1867-1967. Aachen 1968.
  • Joachim Grub: Contributions to the history of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin to Aachen, 1967–1992. Aachen 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Greifswald, law and political science dissertation 1933 on d-nb.info
  2. ↑ Katja Zienicke: Dealing with illness at the beginning of modern times using the example of leprosy. 2006.
  3. ^ Braunschweiger Stadtchronik, 1972, entry 36 on braunschweig.de
  4. ^ In: Walter von Hueck, Genealogical Handbook of Noble Houses B, Volume VII, CAStarke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, 1965
  5. ↑ Johannes Hemleben in communications from the Christian community

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personal data
SURNAME Kurnatowski, Wolf-Dietrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German canon lawyer and pastor of the Christian Community
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Crone on the brahe
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1972
Place of death Braunschweig