Wacker, Friedrich Alexander

Profession
Pastor
Biography

The Rev. Friedrich Alexander Wacker was born in Kamyshin on 8 April 1886, the son of Volga German colonists Georg W. Wacker and Dorothea Reisich. He died after 1938. He married Clara (surname unknown). He attended high school and college in Astrakhan. From 1909-1912, he was a theology student at the seminary in Dorpat, Estonia.

He was ordained on 3 November 1913 and served the Norka parish from then until 1925. He became dean of the parishes of the Bergseite colonies and theological director of the pastor’s seminary in Leningrad.

In 1930, he was exiled to Martyskino, near Oranienbaum until 1934 and not permitted to serve as a pastor during that time. According to Schnurr, he was still alive in 1938.

Sources

Die Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Russland: 1914.

Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978).

Friedrich Alexander Wacker (Norka website - Steve Schreiber)