Gustav von Rohden

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]

He was the son of theologian Ludwig von Rohden (1815–1889) and the brother of archaeologist Hermann von Rohden (1852–1916) and historian Paul von Rohden (1862–1939).

• 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]