Bodo Heyne

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Bodo Heyne (born July 16, 1893 in Essen , † June 10, 1980 in Bremen ) was a Bremen theologian .

biography

Heyne was the son of a bookseller. He studied Protestant theology at the University of Strasbourg and the University of Bonn . In 1919 he became a pastor in Essen and then worked in the Rhineland . From 1922 to 1963 he was an inspector and then, as the successor to Alfred Fritz, director (managing director) of the Inner Mission in Bremen and from 1930 he was also a pastor at the hospital in Bremen. Since the 1920s he was connected to Pastor Constantin Frick (1934 President of the Central Committee of the Inner Mission), also in the defense of the official church regiment during the Nazi era .

From 1947 to 1948 he headed the Friedehorst facility in Bremen- Burglesum , of which he was a co-founder. It was administered by the Inner Mission from 1947 and was purchased in 1962. In 1948 Friedehorst accommodated 420 evacuees and refugees and in 1952 over 1000 old, disabled and sick people. Heyne founded the Commission for Bremen Church History in 1954. He edited the magazine Hospitium ecclesiae . He retired in 1963. In 1966, in protest against the board system, Heyne left the association of the Inner Mission welfare home at Ellener Hof after twenty years of membership and unsuccessfully suggested a change in working methods.

Honors

The Bodo Heyne House of the Friedehorst Foundation in Bremer Neustadt , a residential group of residential groups for adults with disabilities, was named after him.

Works

  • Bodo Heyne and Hans Jessen: Hospitium Ecclesiae. Research on the history of the Bremen church . Schünemann publishing house, Bremen.
  • The way of the emigrant . Furche-Verlag, 1960.

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