Seidel, Heinrich Wolfgang |
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BORN 28 Aug 1876, Berlin - DIED 22 Sep 1945, München, Bayern GRAVE LOCATION Tutzing, Bayern: Neuer Friedhof, Heinrich-Vogl-strasse |
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Heinrich Wolfgang Seidel was the son of the engineer and author Heinrich Seidel (1842-1906) and his wife Agnes Seidel, born Becker. He studied Protestant theology at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. He also studied for one semester at Marburg and Leipzig. He became a vicar and assistant preacher and he also worked as a private tutor. In 1907 he became pastor at the Lazarus-Kranken- und Diakonissenhauses in Berlin. This enabled him to marry his cousin Ina Seidel. Ina's novel "Lennacker" included motifs from his job that he held for seven years. In 1914 he became pastor of the Protestant congregation in Eberswalde. In 1923 he returned to Berlin where he became preacher of the Deutscher Dom at the Gendarmenmarkt. He retired in 1934. Partly for health reasons, but also because he was opposed to the nazis. They moved to Starnberg in Bavaria where is wife had built a house from the earnings of her book "Das Wunschkind". Seidel wrote a short biography of Theodor Fontane, whom he had met in his youth. In 1940 he fell ill with cancer. He died in 1945 in a clinic in Munich. Family • Wife: Seidel, Ina (1907-1945) Related persons • wrote about Fontane, Theodor • met Fontane, Theodor |
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 The grave of Heinrich Wolfgang Seidel and Ida Seidel at the Neuer Friedhof, Tutzing. Picture by Androom (23 Aug 2011) |
Sources • Scheibmayr, Erich, Gräber in Oberbayern - ausserhalb von München, Verlag Erich Scheibmayr, München, 1998 • Heinrich Wolfgang Seidel - Wikipedia (DE) |
