Frederick Sutermeister
Fredy Suter Champion ( born January 29, 1873 in Aarau, † July 16, 1934 ) was a Swiss Reformed pastor and religious socialist.
Life
Suter Master was a son of Otto Suter master; He spent his childhood in st. Gallic monastery Maria mountain, before the family moved to Bern in 1880, where he attended the Sulgenbach school and high school. At sixteen, he moved to Basel School; in Rebhaus he learned the Konviktleben know; in secondary connection Concordia, he made friends with Albert Barth. From 1892 he studied theology at the universities of Basel, Bern and Berlin, where he attended lectures by Bernhard Duhm, among others, Adolf von Harnack and Friedrich Paulsen. After graduating, he worked several years as a private tutor in the family Quarles van Ufford in the Netherlands. In 1899 he returned back to Switzerland, settled in 1901 and married Marie Rued Hunziker ( 1875-1947 ). In 1910 he was appointed to a parish in Feuerthalen. During these years he regularly wrote articles for magazines, among others New approaches and Free Swiss workers.
" [ 1910 pointed ] Frederick Suter master in a two-part article on the Congo question to the devastating consequences of the imperialist division of the world down: the expropriation of the land, working conditions, " the slavery desperate similar " are and by " armed force "[... ] be enforced. In the second part he went in detail on the " atrocities " [... ] the Belgian colonialists one, attacked the responsibility of the missionaries for the protection of human rights, and lamented their naivete: not, " It is almost touching to see how even the missionaries for a long time. wanted to believe in the existence of a state system in these atrocities "[... ] on the question of what to do, it was mainly a response :" It is only the power of public opinion. To influence you in the direction of a reaction of justice and brotherly love towards the monstrous rape of a part of humanity, that is our job. "[... ] The article is followed by an editorial calling for accession to the Swiss League for the Protection of the natives in the Congo "
In 1921 he was appointed to a parish in Binningen, where he also worked in the Blue Cross and Wilhelm Denz who took " care of the poor inhabitants ."
Suter champion played the viola and made house music; with his son Henry (1910-1995), he played " often piano duets "; his friendship with Walter Courvoisier contributed to his son's career. His son, Hans (1907-1977) made him in his novel Between two worlds to a tragic novel.