Frank Hinkelmann

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Frank Hinkelmann (born October 23, 1967 in Kusel , Pfalz ) is a German church and mission historian living in Austria .

Life

Frank Hinkelmann grew up in Germany and Indonesia . He has lived in Austria since 1994. He studied theology at the Free Theological Academy in Gießen and at the Theological University Apeldoorn in the Netherlands . There he completed his studies with a focus on church history with a Master of Theology in 2006 . 2014 he received his doctorate at the Free University of Amsterdam Dr. theol. with a study on The Evangelical Movement in Austria (1945–1998) .

activities

Hinkelmann works for the denominational mission and aid organization Operation Mobilization International . He headed the Austrian branch from 1998 to 2007, then the Central Europe division from 2008 to 2010. From 2011 to 2017 he was European Director of OM International and since 2018 has headed the international department for board development. Hinkelmann is a volunteer pastor of the Evangelical Church AB and is involved in the Evangelical Parish of A. u. HB Melk - Scheibbs .

From 2003 to 2015, Hinkelmann was chairman of the Austrian Evangelical Alliance , whose history he published in 2006 in an overview. He succeeded in showing that an alliance activity in Austria began as early as 1864.

In autumn 2014 he was elected President of the European Evangelical Alliance (EEA). In addition, he is also Vice-Chair of the International Council of the World Evangelical Alliance. Since autumn 2018, Hinkelmann has been rector of the Martin Bucer Seminar , a theological training center with an evangelical character, and teaches church and mission history as well as denominational studies at various theological institutions. Together with other church historians he is building an archive on Christian movements of the Reformation tradition in Austria. Magazines and documents from the areas of Pietism , Free Churches and Evangelical Movement are collected .

Publications (in selection)

  • History of the Evangelical Alliance in Austria (= studies on the history of Christian movements of the Reformation tradition in Austria. Vol. 1). VKW , Bonn 2006, 2 2012.
  • Protestant life in the Melk and Scheibbs districts. From the time of the Reformation to the present. VTR, Nuremberg 2010.
  • with Dorothee Hinkelmann: More than students, rubbish boxes and tracts. Operation Mobilization in Austria 1961–2011 (= Studies on Spirituality, Transformation and Church Building in Austria. Vol. 2). VKW, Bonn 2011.
  • The Evangelical Movement in Austria. Basics of their historical and theological development 1945–1998 (= studies on the history of Christian movements of the Reformation tradition in Austria. Vol. 8). VKW, Bonn 2014.
  • Churches, free churches and Christian communities in Austria. Handbook of denominational studies , Böhlau Verlag , Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-20400-8 .
  • From Austria to all over the world. History of the Austrian Protestant World Mission . (= Studies in the history of Christian movements of the Reformation tradition in Austria. Vol. 10). VKW, Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-86269-134-0 .
  • Evangelical: in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Origin, meaning and reception of a term , Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-86269-141-8 .

as editor

Essays

  • “About missions and missionaries”: Austria's contribution to the Protestant world mission. From the time of the Reformation to the dawn of the 20th century . In: Friedemann Walldorf u. a. (Ed.): Mission and reflection in context . VTR + VKW, Nürnberg + Bonn 2010, pp. 148–175.
  • OM in Germany, Austria and Switzerland . In: Ian Randall (Ed.): Daring. Lived. The OM story . VTR + OM Books, Nürnberg + Linz 2011, pp. 283–322.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FTH Gießen via Frank Hinkelmann ( Memento from July 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ World Alliance through Frank Hinkelmann
  3. ^ European Evangelical Alliance
  4. ↑ Melk-Scheibbs Evangelical Church
  5. ^ So Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer : The Evangelical Alliance of Vienna in Dark Times. About YMCA, Jewish and People's Mission as well as People's and Free Churches until 1945 . Nürnberg 2015, p. 111: “We owe Frank Hinkelmann to thank Frank Hinkelmann that our knowledge of the history of the Vienna Evangelical Alliance does not begin with the protocols from 1920, but that it goes back half a century. He tracked down hidden sources not only in Austria, but also in Germany and London ”.
  6. ^ European Evangelical Alliance
  7. ↑ Rev. Dr. Frank Hinkelmann - World Evangelical Alliance
  8. ↑ BQ press release: The handover at the Martin Bucer seminar has taken place
  9. ↑ See the information in: Frank Hinkelmann: The Evangelical Movement in Austria . 2014, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Hinkelmann, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church and mission historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Kusel