2 Postcards Berlin-Lichterfelde 1900-1904 From Priest Max Stolte (Pauluskirche)

They bid on two postcards from 1900 and 1904 out ofGroß-Lichterfelde (Berlin).

Writtenfrom theev. Theologian Max Stolte (*26. April 1863 in Potsdam, died. 5. February 1937 in Magdeburg), son of the Privy Accountant Hermann Stolte (1819-1914), a brother of the Royal Court Physician Theodor Stolte (1815-1910), and his wife Agnes Stolte, née. Schrader (1836-1921), a daughter of the Hamburg merchant Albert Friedrich Schrader (1797-1858). Max Stolte was a brother of the doctor and university professor Hermann Stolte (1865-1946).

From 1900 to 1910 he was Max Stolte Pastor at the Pauluskirche Lichterfelde, which took place on the 2nd It was inaugurated in June 1900; From 1925 to 1933 he was a cathedral preacher and general superintendent in Magdeburg.

He also published some theological works (mostly lectures), e.g.:

-More heart for our church! (1914)

-War - a judgment from God? Lecture (1915)

-We think of the fallen: Speak e.g. Memorial ceremony on the 25th November 1916 in Magdeburg

-On the value of Christian folk customs in the home and community: Lecture at the autumn meeting of the Saxon Provincial Committee for Internal Mission in Zeitz on December 26th. November 1917

-The church as advocate of the soul: a lecture go. at 6. January 1919

The first letter was also written in the name of his wife Hedwig Stolte, née. Fickenscher (* 4. June 1865 in Eichstädt as the daughter of the pastor Konrad Fikenscher and Wilhelmine Antonie Ida, née. Mertens, died. 1953).

Aimed at a friend, the conservationist and composer Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916), who lived in Groß-Lichterfelde, but was on vacation or was in his Knabenburg estate in Lauenstein near Voldagsen, and atwhose wife Gertrud Rudorff, b. Rietschel (1853-1937), a daughter of the sculptor Ernst Rietschel.

1.) Card from the 20th May 1900; addressed to Meran, sent back as “unresolved”.

Excerpts:"For we have a wonderful month with almost no joy. The nightingales are getting hoarse. Drought and frost still deny spring its triumph. - By the way, the festivals are looming for me: May 27th. Farewell service in the Lichterf. Church, then laying the foundation stone e.g. new rectory, June 2nd. Inauguration with Empress, June 3rd and 4.6. Pentecost, all of this is easier said than prepared. [...] With loyalty and gratitude to Max and Hedwig Stolte."

2.) Card from the 19th August 1904, addressed to Lauenstein near Voldagsen.

Excerpts:"On the 15th September is my brother's wedding in Nordhausen. With kind regards, also from my wife, your loyal M. Stolte."

Condition:Paper slightly browned and slightly stained.Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: Corner 24-05

About the Pauluskirche Lichterfelde and the recipient (source: wikipedia):

The Paul's Church in the Berlin district of Lichterfelde it was planned and built in the brick Gothic style by Fritz Gottlob. The construction costs amounted to 250,000 marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 2.06 million euros). The church was opened on the 2nd Inaugurated in June 1900. After extensive damage in the Second World War, the church building was rebuilt in a simplified manner between 1951 and 1957 under the direction of Erich Ruhtz and Karl Rumpfbach and was rebuilt on May 24th. Re-inaugurated in March 1957 by Bishop Otto Dibelius. In 1987, the church was fundamentally renovated according to plans by Peter Lehrecke. The church is now a listed building.

History: When the community needed more space for church services, they initially enlarged the village church in 1895. But after the number of residents rose to over 10,000, it became necessary to build a new church. For the inauguration on the 2nd In June 1900, Empress Auguste Viktoria sent her court master, Baron von Mirbach. During a visit a few days later, the Empress donated a baptismal font and an altar Bible signed by her, both of which were stolen during renovation work in 1987. The bronze bells were melted down for armaments during the First World War. The cast steel bells purchased in 1922 were preserved during the Second World War.

During the Nazi era, the Pauluskirche had four pastors from the Confessing Church: Max Diestel (1925–1948), Walter Hildebrand (1928–1935), Peter Petersen (1930–1945) and Eugen Weschke (1937–1943), whereas the long-standing pastor Wilhelm Antonowitz (1922–1950) was a supporter of the German Christians. While Antonowitz preached for the German Christians in the Pauluskirche, Petersen simultaneously held services in the parish hall. When Petersen was arrested for interceding by name for Martin Albertz, Hans Asmussen, Günther Dehn and Martin Niemöller, he said during his interrogation in July 1942 with subtle irony that the informer was mentally ill.

When the Allied air raids of the Second World War destroyed the first houses in the area around St. Paul's Church, those who had been bombed out were allowed to put their saved furniture in the church. On the 24th In March 1944, the Pauluskirche was also hit by bombs and burned for a full week due to the piled-up furniture. Of the interior, only the baptismal bowl donated by Empress Auguste Viktoria and the altar Bible as well as the body of the altar crucifix were saved.

Although the outer walls had burned out and were badly affected by moisture, they were still stable enough for reconstruction to begin in 1951. The exterior of the church was restored true to the original except for the roof turret. The interior was designed in a very simplified manner by the architect Erich Ruhtz and sprayed concrete was applied to the outer walls and gallery supports. On the 24th The rebuilt church was re-consecrated in March 1957, but it was not until the 17th. The new organ was inaugurated in July 1960.

On the 18th In October 1987, after a year of renovation, the Pauluskirche was re-inaugurated. The acoustics and lighting were improved (through a chandelier with a sound sail), floor heating was installed, and instead of the previous uniform gray paint, a colored one was chosen. The seating arrangement was relaxed, the altar area was changed and a new, raised pulpit was created (based on the original furnishings, but now placed on the left side). The rosette was also recreated to resemble the original.

Pastors and priests

1900–1910 Max Stolte

1908–1923 Karl Grüneisen

1910–1924 August Stock (Stockweg is named after him)

1922–1950 Wilhelm Antonowitz

1924–1930 Heinrich Koch

1925–1948 Max Diestel

1928–1935 Walter Hildebrand

1930–1945 Peter Petersen

1937–1943 Eugen Weschke

1944–1954 Alfred Schröder

1945–1954 Franz Molzahn

1949–1978 Martin Gern

1951–1967 Alfred Ulrich

1955–1965 Joachim Heichen

1967–1971 Peter Paul Junge

1968–1977 Helmut Giese

1971–1982 Karl-Ernst Kleiner

1980–1984 Rolf Tischer

1977–1998 Angelika Fischer

1984–1992 Lothar Voigt

1985–2002 Paul-Gerhard Fränkle

1997–2004 Heike Schulz

2002–2020 Gabriele Helmert

2006–2013 Michael Juschka

2014–2023 Barbara Neubert

since 2021 Björn-Christoph Sellin-Reschke

Ernst Friedrich Karl Rudorff (born 18. January 1840 in Berlin; died 31. December 1916 in Lichterfelde near Berlin) was a German composer, music educator and conservationist.

Life and work: Ernst Rudorff was a child from the marriage of the law professor Adolf August Friedrich Rudorff (1803–1873) and Friederike Dorothea Elisabeth Rudorff, née. Pistor (1808–1887), called Betty. As a young girl, his mother was an active member of the Berlin Singing Academy and a youth crush of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who gave her the self-written and set song Is it true? dedicated. Ernst Rudorff received his first piano lessons from his godmother Marie Lichtenstein (1817–1890), a daughter of Martin Hinrich Lichtenstein and friend of Clara Schumann.

Music:Rudorff was a student of Woldemar Bargiel from 1852 to 1857 and, through his intervention, received some piano lessons from Clara Schumann, with whom he became a lifelong friend ever since. From 1859 he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he was a student of Ignaz Moscheles, Louis Plaidy and Julius Rietz. He also received lessons from Moritz Hauptmann and Carl Reinecke. In 1865 he became a piano teacher at the Cologne Conservatory, where he founded the Cologne Bach Association in 1867.

In the fall of 1869 he became professor of piano and organ at the Royal University of Music in Berlin-Charlottenburg, where he worked until his retirement in 1910. In addition, from 1880 to 1890 he was the successor to Max Bruch as head of the Stern'sche Choral Society and conducted on the 5th. May 1882 the first concert of the newly founded Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, later the Berlin Philharmonic.

In November 1871 he purchased a villa at Wilhelmstrasse 26 (today Königsberger Strasse 26) in Lichterfelde near Berlin, built by the architect Johannes Otzen, where he lived until his death. The house served as a residence for the Rudorff family until it was destroyed in 1943.

Rudorff's compositional work is indebted to the music of the Romantic period and shows, among other things, the influence of Robert Schumann. He is considered to be part of the circle of so-called “Berlin academics”, which also included Friedrich Kiel, Max Bruch and Heinrich von Herzogenberg.

He was the editor of Carl Maria von Weber's Euryanthe, the piano concertos and piano sonatas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Weber's letters to Hinrich Lichtenstein.

Nature conservation: Ernst Rudorff grew up in Berlin, where he spent most of his life. He regularly withdrew from city life to his parents' estate Knabenburg in Lauenstein am Ith, a village in the Weser-Leine mountains in Lower Saxony. There he acquired the ruins of Lauenstein Castle with the castle hill, on which a beer bar was to be built in order to preserve it and keep it generally accessible.

Rudorff experienced the intrusion of the “new era” into his youthful idyll; Coupling and community division in the village mark also affected the parents' property. He saved old oaks on a footpath in Lauenstein, prevented paddocks from being set up in a meadow valley and created forest edges, hedges and gallery forests along the stream. In this way he achieved that species-rich meadows were created. He ensured that trees and hedges were planted in the already broken land.

He brought landscape impressions from the Siebengebirge with him to his homeland in Brandenburg. Around 1886, in a petition he called for the preservation of the landscape's peculiarities, and his diaries contain thoughts about founding an “association for the protection of nature”. Many defining landscape elements in and around Lauenstein would no longer exist today without his work.

In 1897, Rudorff coined the word “Heimatschutz” in a detailed presentation of his thoughts and demands. Together with the two articles in the Grenzbote, this was the reason for the founding of the German Federal Homeland Security on December 30th. March 1904. Rudorff was against Germans of the Jewish faith and women also signing the founding call. He also used ethnic arguments in his writings. With his idea of ​​nature conservation as “homeland protection,” he wanted to combat the “materialism” and the “ideas of the Red International” that he hated.

In his adopted hometown of Lauenstein, Rudorff Street is named after him; The “Ernst Rudorff hiking trail” was inaugurated in 2006; Until 2016 there was an “Ernst Rudorff School” in town; There is a memorial stone in the Lauenstein community garden and there is a memorial for him and his family in the cemetery at the St. Annen Chapel.

Family: Ernst Rudorff married Gertrud Charlotte Marie Rietschel (1853–1937), a daughter of the sculptor Ernst Rietschel, in 1876. He had three children from the marriage: Hermann, Elisabeth and Melusine.

Hermann Rudorff:Hermann Rudorff (* 2. December 1877 in Lichterfelde near Berlin; † 1. February 1916 ibid) studied jura and received his doctorate; For a time he was a member of the board of the Federal Homeland Security and a volunteer in the State Office for Natural Monument Preservation in Prussia under Hugo Conwentz. When he died in 1916 at the age of just 39 after a long illness, he was a government councilor at the Berlin police headquarters, and Benno Wolf took over his duties in the State Office for Natural Monument Preservation. Ernst Rudorff hoped that his son would continue to work on homeland and nature conservation and was very saddened when he died so young.

Elisabeth Rudorff: Elisabeth Rudorff (* 13. May 1879 in Lichterfelde near Berlin; † 27. May 1963 in Hameln) went through the usual educational path for girls. After her brother's early death and her father's death in the same year, the 37-year-old, unmarried Elisabeth felt obliged to continue her father's work. She worked as his secretary while he was still alive and therefore knew his contacts. She was a founding member of the Volksbund for Nature Conservation in 1922, active in the federal leadership from 1930 and took part in supra-regional nature conservation days. In the spirit of her father, “she supports the demand for a nature conservation law that, in addition to the preservation of species and communities, also includes the protection of scenic beauty and uniqueness.”

In 1938 she published her father's autobiography - but without any passages in which Jewish personalities were mentioned. When the Rudorffs' home in Berlin-Lichterfelde was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1943, Elisabeth moved permanently to Lauenstein. Because she lacked the money to continue purchasing objects worthy of protection, she got involved through publications, submissions and applications to responsible people and authorities and mobilized associations and individuals to support her concerns.

She was active on the board of the Lauenstein local history and tourism association until she was very old. In 1948 she submitted an application in which many natural areas in Lauenstein and Ith should be protected. It was only 60 years later that the Ith was declared a nature reserve.

Melusine Schulze-Rudorff: Melusine Rudorff (1881–1959) married the merchant and former colonial official Ernst Schulze (1877–?), son of the Berlin music professor Johannes Schulze and her father's godson, in 1920. Both later bore the surname Schulze-Rudorff. In 1926 her son Hermann Schulze-Rudorff was born, who died at the age of 6 (1932). The family lived in Bielefeld.

factories

Fonts

Writings on nature conservation

About the relationship of modern life to nature. Berlin 1880.

The protection of the natural landscape and historical monuments of Germany. Lecture given in Berlin at the General German Association on December 30th. March 1892. Berlin 1892.

Homeland Security. 1897 (reprint: Reichl, St. Goar 1994, ISBN 3-87667-139-6)

Memoirs of life

From the days of romance. Portrait of a German Family, ed. by Elisabeth Rudorff, Leipzig 1938 (heavily abridged edition in one volume) - Complete edition in 3 volumes, ed. by Katja Schmidt-Wistoff: Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 2006, ISBN 978-3-593-38162-6

letters

Johannes Brahms in correspondence with Karl Reinthaler, Max Bruch, Hermann Deiters, Friedrich Heimsoeth, Carl Reinecke, Ernst Rudorff, Bernhard and Luise Scholz (= Johannes Brahms. Correspondence, Volume 3). Ed. by Wilhelm Altmann. Berlin 1908 (expanded edition 1912).

Letters from and to Joseph Joachim, ed. by Johannes Joachim and Andreas Moser. 3 volumes. Berlin 1911–1913. (Correspondence with Rudorff in volumes 2 and 3)

Editorialship

Carl Maria von Weber, letters to Hinrich Lichtenstein, ed. by Ernst Rudorff, Braunschweig 1900

Moritz Hauptmann, tasks for single and double counterpoint by Moritz Hauptmann. Compiled for use in lessons from his students' study books by Ernst Rudorff, Leipzig 1870.

Compositional work

(List of works by Ernst Rudorff, compiled by Stephanie Twiehaus. In: From the days of romanticism. Volume 3. Frankfurt / New York 2006, pp. 336–345.)

Orchestral works

Romance for cello and orchestra op. 7

Overture to Ludwig Tieck's fairy tale The Blonde Eckbert op. 8

Overture to Otto the Schütz op. 12

Ballade (Introduction, Scherzo and Finale) op. 15

Serenade No. 1 A major op. 20

Serenade No. 2 G major op. 21

Variations on a Theme in D Minor, Op. 24

Symphony No. 1 B major op. 31

Symphony No. 2 G minor op. 40

Romance for violin and orchestra op. 41

Romantic Overture op. 45

Symphony No. 3 B minor op. 50

Intermezzo in the form of Variations in E major op. 59 (after Variations for two pianos op. 1, unpublished)

Chamber music

String sextet for three violins, viola and two cellos in A major op. 5 (1865)

Piano music

Variations in E major for two pianos op. 1, dedicated to “Dr. Clara Schumann in deepest adoration” (1863)

Six four-hand piano pieces op. 4

Eight fantasy pieces op. 10

Fantasy in three movements op. 14, "Dedicated to Mr. Johannes Brahms in homage"

Two concert etudes op. 29

18 Children's Waltz for piano four hands op. 38

Three Romances op. 48

Capriccio Appassionato op. 49

Impromptu op. 51

Six piano pieces op. 52

Four four-hand piano pieces op. 54

Variazioni Capricciose op. 55

Two ballads op. 56 (unpublished)

Choral music

Four songs for mixed choir, op. 6

Six songs for three and four-part women's choir, op. 9

Four songs for mixed choir, op. 11

Four songs for mixed choir, op. 13

The elevator of romance. A spring celebration for soloists, choir and orchestra op. 18 (after Ludwig Tieck)

Two songs for soprano, alto, women's choir and orchestra op. 19

Six songs for women's choir, op. 22

Six songs for women's choir, op. 23

Four songs for six-part choir, op. 25

Singing to the Stars for six-part choir and orchestra, op. 26 (after Friedrich Rückert)

Six songs for four-part choir, op. 27

Four songs for mixed choir, op. 30

Four songs for mixed choir, op. 36 (To the moon; At the mountain dump; A hunter stalks; Spring net)

Autumn song for six-part choir and orchestra op. 43 (after Klaus Groth)

Songs for mixed choir op. 53 (unpublished)

Ave Maria am Rhein for soprano, women's choir and orchestra op. 58 (after Emanuel Geibel, unpublished)

Ten songs for three and four-part women's choir and piano op. 60 (arrangements of our own a cappella choirs, unpublished)

Works for voice and piano

Six songs op. 2

Six Poems by Joseph von Eichendorff op. 3

Four songs op. 16

Four songs op. 17

Three poems op. 28

Three songs op. 32

Four songs op. 33

Three duets for two female voices and piano op. 34

Three duets for two female voices and piano op. 35

Five songs by Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben op. 37

Eight Tuscan Songs by Ferdinand Gregorovius op. 39

Three songs by Robert Reinick op. 42

Three songs op. 44

Three songs op. 46

Four songs op. 47

Four songs op. 57 (unpublished)

Edits

Franz Schubert: Fantasy in F minor for two pianos D 940, arrangement for orchestra

Robert Schumann: Garden Melody op. 85/3 and Am Springbrunnen op. 85/9 for piano four hands, arrangement for violin and orchestra or Piano

Rudorff Collection: Rudorff inherited an important collection of music autographs from his maternal grandfather, Carl Philipp Heinrich Pistor, which he had arranged by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Rudorff expanded this collection even further. In 1917 it was acquired by the Peters Music Library in Leipzig and with it came to the music library within the Leipzig City Library. Among its important unique pieces are seven chorale preludes assigned to Johann Sebastian Bach, which were only published by Franz Haselböck in 1985.

Rudorff correspondence: Rudorff's correspondence with Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms came into the possession of the Saxon State Library in Dresden (SLUB) and is available in full digital form:

Letters from Clara Schumann to Ernst Rudorff (with full text). Saxon State Library – Dresden State and University Library (SLUB), accessed on 4. July 2021.

Letters from Ernst Rudorff to Clara Schumann (with full text). Saxon State Library – Dresden State and University Library (SLUB), accessed on 4. July 2021.

Letters from Johannes Brahms to Ernst Rudorff. Saxon State Library – Dresden State and University Library (SLUB), accessed on 4. July 2021.

Letters from Ernst Rudorff to Johannes Brahms. Saxon State Library – Dresden State and University Library (SLUB), accessed on 4. July 2021.