Curt-Jürgen Heinemann-Grüder

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Curt-Jürgen Heinemann-Grüder (born August 20, 1920 in Berlin-Friedenau ; † November 4, 2010 in Karlsruhe ) was a German Protestant pastor and superintendent .

Life

Curt-Jürgen Heinemann-Grüder was the son of the doctor Curt Heinemann-Grüder and his wife Ilse Ina-Marie Grüder. At the age of 18 Heinemann-Grüder became a flag boy , at the age of 19 a lieutenant and at the age of 23 Rittmeister . He was an active participant in the war and fought in Poland , France , the Soviet Union and most recently in Tunisia . In Africa he was taken prisoner by the French in 1943 and was the youngest Rittmeister in the prison camp. While he was a prisoner of war he began to transform himself into an anti-militarist by reading the Bible and his decision to study theology can also be found in this context.

Released from captivity in 1947, Heinemann-Grüder studied theology in Bethel , Heidelberg and at the church college in Berlin-Zehlendorf until 1952 . In 1951 he moved there, in the context of the request made by Heinrich Vogel and President Kurt Scharf to the young pastors to initially go to the GDR for five years . Ordained in 1954 by Bishop Otto Dibelius , he was teaching vicar in Luckenwalde and Dobbrikow from 1952 to 1953 . In 1954 he became pastor in Dobbrikow and in 1957 provincial pastor at the general superintendent of Kurmark in Potsdam . From 1961 until he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1974, he was pastor and superintendent in Gramzow near Prenzlau in Uckermark . From 1975 until his retirement in 1981 he was pastor in Niefern near Pforzheim.

Through personal acquaintance with Josef Hromádka , Heinemann-Grüder received an invitation to the 1st All-Christian Peace Assembly (ACFV) of the Christian Peace Conference (CFK), in which he also took part, as well as the II. And III. ACFV 1964 and 1968. He ended his work in the CFK with Hromádka's resignation in 1969. Also in 1969 he ended his work in the Weißensee working group , which in his eyes was no longer a theological working group, but a mood barometer of the State Secretariat for Church Issues in the GDR. Heinemann-Grüder earned particular merits through his effectiveness aimed at reconciliation with Israel and Poland . So he got involved a. a. for the erection of a memorial plaque on the Jewish cemetery in Günterberg in the Uckmark .

Together with 125 other signatories, he addressed a letter to the provincial synod of his church, which was meeting in March 1970, in which they demanded a church act of reconciliation with the neighboring Polish people:

“ It is the murdered who bind us together and oblige Germans and Poles to do better in the common future. "

Memorial stone in Gramzow

In 1971 in Gramzow he had a memorial stone set up at the graves of the fallen with the words of the prophet Micha " Swords to plowshares ". The years 1933 and 1938 recall the deportation of communists and social democrats to prisons and concentration camps and the beginning of the extermination of the Jews. This was the first public presentation of this text in the GDR, which later became the slogan of the independent peace movement.

After moving to the Federal Republic of Germany, he worked in the local peace movement and the civil disobedience campaign up to disarmament . He has also dedicated his life outside of his ministry to reconciliation work. On his initiative and on the initiative of Pastor Horst Zorn, a memorial plaque was placed on the Huchenfeld Church in 1992 to commemorate British pilots who were shot nearby at the end of the war in 1945 .

On February 8, 2008, a partnership between the localities of Huchenfeld and Llanbedr in Wales / United Kingdom was concluded in a ceremony . In the presence of the widow of one of the killed pilots, Harald Frost, the parish was presented with a cross of nails.

Curt-Jürgen Heinemann-Grüder's grave in St.-Annen-Kirchhof Berlin-Dahlem

In February 2008, Heinemann-Grüder and other democrats were publicly attacked by the right-wing extremist association “Freundeskreis Ein Herz für Deutschland”. You had criticized the laying of a wreath on the occasion of the day of national mourning at the war memorial by a " pagan storm ". The local mayor had this wreath removed again.

Heinemann-Grüder was married to Gertrud nee Nelle and the father of three sons and three daughters.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information on the Heinemann-Grüders family in the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage
  2. ↑ PASTOR ESCAPE: Such people . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1976 ( online - Jan. 5, 1976 ).
  3. ^ Rolf Richter: Reconciliation with Poland as a task and a way for the Protestant churches in the GDR in the seventies and eighties . Issue 6 of the series of publications of the Institute for Comparative State-Church Research (Berlin), Verlag Gesellschaft für Promote Comparative State-Church Research, 1998 Original from University of Michigan. Digitized July 8, 2009, ISBN 3-93123-205-0 , 9783931232054
  4. ↑ Friendship treaty Huchenfeld-Llanbedr ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dokmz.wordpress.com
personal data
SURNAME Heinemann-Grüder, Curt-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, pastor and superintendent in the GDR and Federal Republic of Germany, CFK member
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Friedenau
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 2010
Place of death Karlsruhe