Albrecht Hege

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Albrecht Hege (born May 9, 1917 in Karlsruhe ; † August 16, 2017 in Heilbronn ) was a German Protestant theologian and pastor of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .

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Albrecht Hege was the eldest son of the farmer and plant breeder Hans Hege . His mother Julie Hege, nee Barth, was the daughter of the politician Albert Barth . His younger brother is the farmer, plant breeder and mechanical engineer Hans-Ulrich Hege , his younger sister was the writer Charlotte Hofmann-Hege .

He studied Protestant theology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and received his doctorate there in 1939 . After his release from Soviet captivity , he began his professional career in 1945 as city vicar in Schainbach near Crailsheim . Then he was repetitee at the Protestant monastery in Tübingen and from 1947 pastor in Ingelfingen in the Hohenlohe district .

In 1953 Albrecht Hege was appointed the first Württemberg state pastor for church farm work at the rural home folk high school in Waldenburg -Hohebuch, which had been founded by his father. In 1959 he became prelate of the Heilbronn Prelature and at the age of 42 was the youngest prelate in Württemberg. By virtue of his office, he was a member of the college of the Upper Church Council and from 1969 also theological deputy of the Württemberg regional bishop . He was also a member of the German Executive Committee of the Lutheran World Federation . He was a co-founder of the Evangelical Conference Center in Löwenstein and honorary chairman of the Diaconal Paulinenpflege Winnenden , as well as a board member of the Evangelical Diakoniewerk Schwäbisch Hall . The state farmers' association honored him with the Golden Ear and the Diakonie with the Golden Crown Cross . In 1985 Albrecht Hege retired.

Hege was married three times and had to deal with the death of his wife three times. He had four children.

On the occasion of Hege's 100th birthday on May 9, 2017, the Württemberg regional bishop Frank Otfried July praised him as a “personality who set standards with theological reflection, piety and commitment to questions of agriculture, diaconia and education”. At the age of 100, he died at home in Heilbronn in August 2017.

literature

  • Charlotte Hofmann-Hege: My brother Albrecht. On the trapezoid of life. Salzer, Heilbronn 1997, ISBN 978-3-7936-0352-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hege Albrecht - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. May 9, 1917, Retrieved May 9, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Setting standards: Prelate i. R. Albrecht Hege turns 100 - epd. In: epd.de. May 4, 2017. Retrieved May 9, 2017 .
  3. ^ Kilian Krauth: Witness of the century at the height of the times. In: Heilbronner Voice , May 9, 2017
  4. ^ Prelate i. R. Hege is dead , Ev. State Church in Württemberg, August 17, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Hege, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH 16th August 2017
Place of death Heilbronn