Armin Brinkmann

Armin Brinkmann (born November 15, 1948 in Remscheid ) is a New Apostolic clergyman and was Church President of the New Apostolic Church in North Rhine-Westphalia from June 26, 2005 to February 23, 2014 .

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Brinkmann comes from a New Apostolic family and completed his studies in Aachen as a graduate engineer (specializing in chemistry ), after which he worked as head of research and development in the chemical industry.

Armin Brinkmann has been married since 1971 and has three grown children.

Church projects

Brinkmann has been a member since 1989 and later also chairman of the children and youth project group of the New Apostolic Church International (NACI). Later he also worked in the NACI project group on church strategy .

In addition to the production of Christian teaching materials for children, District Apostle Brinkmann essentially coordinated translation work on the songs of the New Apostolic Church, especially into Russian and Portuguese .

Brinkmann also worked as a missionary , especially in Portugal and Angola , but also in Brazil , Russia , Vietnam and others.

Investment fraud case

In 2007 - during his tenure as District Apostle - Armin Brinkmann invested around 10 million euros in church funds in a financial transaction. As it became publicly known in 2012, he and his financial advisers were caught by a fraud. The Church lost all of its money on the deal. Since Brinkmann acted against the constitution of the district church and did not include the state executive in this decision as prescribed, criminal proceedings were initiated against him. However, this was discontinued soon afterwards.

On October 7, 2012, following a divine service in Duisburg, the District Apostle apologized and admitted mistakes. In the same divine service, the Apostle Rainer Storck was appointed as District Apostle Helper and successor to Brinkmann.

Web links

• Article Armin Brinkmann on APWiki