Gustav von Rohden (22 April 1855 in Barmen – 9 May 1942 in Ballenstedt) was a German clergyman and the author of books on various social issues (the welfare of former prisoners, sexual ethics, etc.).[1][2]
From 1882 he served as a pastor in Helsingfors, Finland. After returning to Germany, he worked as a prison chaplain in Dortmund (from 1895). Beginning in 1908 he held the position of Konsistorialrat in Berlin, and in 1912 became a pastor in the town of Spören, near Bitterfeld. From 1919 to 1923 he was director of the Frauenschule der Inneren Mission (Women's School of the Inner Mission) in Berlin.[3][4]
The family of Gustav von Rohden, (29 September 1906).
Darstellung und Beurteilung der Pädagogik (1884) – Presentation and evaluation of education.
Geschichte der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Gefängnis-Gesellschaft: Festschrift zum 75jährigen Bestehen der Gesellschaft (1901) – History of the Rhenish-Westphalian Prison Association
Probleme der Gefangenenseelsorge und Entlassenenfürsorge (1908) – Book concerning the welfare of released prisoners.
Sexualethik (1918) – Sexual ethics
Ehe und freie Liebe: Ein Wort zur Individualismus in der Frauenfrage (1919) – Marriage and free love.
Jesus und der Sozialismus (1920) – Jesus and socialism.
Die neue Ethik und der Krieg (1920) – The new ethics and the war.
Hundert Jahre Geschichte der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Gefängnis-Gesellschaft 1826-1926 (1926) – One hundred years of history involving the Rhenish-Westphalian Prison Association 1826–1926.[5]
References
^Cities, Sin, and Social Reform in Imperial Germany by Andrew Lees
^Sex, Freedom, and Power in Imperial Germany, 1880–1914 by Edward Ross Dickinson
^Zwischen Zeugnis und Zeitgeist: Die politische Theologie von Paul Althaus by André Fischer
^The religion in the past and present by Hermann Gunkel, Otto Scheel, Leopold Zscharnack
