My ancestors were Reformed Hugenots, who came from Salzburg to Prussia and finally settled in Danzig and Königsberg. My great grandfather Friedrich Schirrmacher (1790-1827), who was the director of the Petrischule (Petri School) in Danzig, left behind the following handwritten confession of faith, which is also my own conconfession:
My Confession of Faith
From the beginning the Evangelical church protested and must continue to protest, but first of all from a positive basis, namely that of unconditional belief in the free grace of God in Christ, and namely as it has been revealed in absolute form for all times in the writings of Paul, Peter, and John. And secondly, itprotests on purely religious grounds and only against that which alters the basis 
for faith in some form.
Carl Friedrich Schirrmacher
born September 14, 1790
in Königsberg in Prussia
[Handwritten entry by Carl Friedrich Schirrmacher on the first blank page, or flyleaf, in a copy of Das Vater Unser: Ein Erbauungsbuch für jeden Christen (The Lord’s Prayer: A Devotional Book for Every Christian) by the vice president and senior court chaplain Christoph Friedrich von Ammon, D. Ch. G. Kayser’schen Buchhand lung F. Beyer: Leipzig, 1839 (in my possession)
His son and my grandfather, Friedrich Wilhelm Schirrmacher (1824-1904) left the following lines in the Danzig Reformed Songbook, which I also want to make my own:
Eins nur wünsch ich mir hienieden,
Jesu, Deinen Geist und Frieden,
Und von den Ruhm an meinem Grabe,
daß ich Dich geliebet habe.
Friedrich Wilhelm Schirrmacher
(There is only one thing I wish upon this earth,
Jesus, your Spirit and peace,
And from any luster at my grave,
that I loved you.
Friedrich Wilhelm Schirrmacher)
[Handwritten entry in a songbook (Kirchen Gesang-Buch Der Evangelisch-Reformierten Gemeinde in Dantzig ( Church Songbook of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Danzig). Thom. Joh. Schreiber: Dantzig, 1745) in my possession. The first entry in the songbook is from September 14, 1777 by A. V. E. (presumably not a relative of the Schirrmacher family). On September 14, 1854 “Carl Friedrich Schirrmacher” dedicated the book to his son Friedrich Wilhelm, who wrote the quoted dedication without a date. The book in turn made its way via his son Leo Schirrmacher to his son Klaus Leo Schirrmacher, who on March 16, 1968 passed it on to “my loving brother Bernd Schirrmacher” upon the occasion of Bernd Schirrmacher’s birthday. Bernd Schirrmacher, my father, passed in on to me with the dedication “Christmas 1989.” (Compare to this Franz Kessler. Danzinger Gesangbücher 1586-1793. Einzelschriften der Historischen Kommission für ost- und westpreußische Landesforschung 15. Institut Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk: Lüneburg, 1998. pp. 65-70 our songbook; also pp. 3-7 on the Reformation and pp. 6-7 on the Reformed in Danzig.)]
I have republished two of my grandfather’s books and provided introductions to both which carry the same wording. In a similar form the wording has appeared in the Biografisch-Bibliografischen Kirchenlexikon (Biographical-Bibliographical Church Encyclopedia) in German:
“Über den Verfasser.” pp. 5–28 in: Friedrich Wilhelm Schirrmacher. Briefe und Akten zum Marburger Religionsgespräch (1529) und zum Augsburger Reichstag (1530). Geschichte – Kirchengeschichte – Reformation 21. Bonn: VKW, 2003
“Friedrich Wilhelm Schirrmacher”. pp. 5–23 in: Friedrich Wilhelm Schirrmacher. Die Entstehung des Kurfürstenkollegiums. Geschichte – Kirchengeschichte – Reformation 22. Bonn: VKW, 2003
“Friedrich Wilhelm Schirrmacher (1825–1904)”. pp. 142–151 in: Thomas Schirrmacher, Klaus Schirrmacher, Ingrid von Torklus (eds.). Baumeister bleibt der Herr: Festgabe zum 80. Geburtstag von Prof. Bernd Schirrmacher. VKW: Bonn, 2001
“Schirrmacher, Friedrich Wilhelm”. 1226–1235 in: Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz, Traugott Bautz (eds.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon. Bautz: Herzberg beginning with vol. I, 1975, here vol. XIX, 2001
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