Hans-Joachim Mund

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Hans-Joachim Mund (born November 25, 1914 in Brandenburg an der Havel , † October 29, 1986 in Munich ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Hans-Joachim Mund grew up in a German national family in Berlin . It was first shaped by the Neukölln pastor Arthur Rackwitz , through whom he joined the Association of Religious Socialists in 1932 and the Confessing Church in 1934 . In the same year he began studying theology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and after meeting Friedrich Heiler he joined the High Church Association and the High Church St. John's Brotherhood .

Because of his service in the Second World War, Mund was only able to complete his studies in 1946 and became a pastor in Berlin-Tempelhof . Following the example of Rackwitz, who already became a member of the SED in 1946 , Mund also went to East Berlin in 1949 and became a consultant for church and religious questions in the cultural department of the SED's central secretariat . Here, among other things, he campaigned for the appointment of the religious socialist Emil Fuchs to the University of Leipzig and helped rebuild the religious-socialist movement in the GDR. In 1950 he became a senior councilor of the People's Police, prison chaplain in the penal institutions for political prisoners ( Bautzen correctional facility ), which in the long term led him to abandon the socialist worldview. Mund and Walter Kempowski met in Bautzen - this one as a prisoner - and the encounter made a lasting impression on both of them. With the appointment of Heinz Bluhm and Eckart Giebeler as further full-time prison chaplains in the civil service of the GDR on February 6, 1953 , Mund was appointed head of the pastoral care of the People's Police. In January 1959, Mund fled to the West. He received a pastor's post in Wasserburg am Inn and was now heavily involved in the high church movement and in ecumenical discussions. In 1970 he took over the chairmanship of the Augsburg Confession of High Churches , and in 1982 he became vice-president of the International Ecumenical Fellowship .

Mund was married and the father of several children. From 1946 he took over the guardianship of Fritz J. Raddatz - until he came of age - and according to Raddatz he had an affair with him . Mund introduced Kempowski and Raddatz to each other in early 1962.

Publications

As editor:

  • The Petrine Ministry in the Current Theological Discussion . Paderborn 1976.
  • (with Harding Meyer and Heinz Schütte ) Catholic recognition of the Augsburg Confession? A push towards unity between the Catholic and Lutheran Church . Frankfurt am Main 1977.
  • Mary in the Doctrine of the Church . Paderborn 1979.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Walter Kempowski: "If you can do that well!" Records 1956-1970 . Ed .: Dirk Hempel. 1st edition. Knaus, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8135-0367-8 .
  2. ^ "Dear Fritz" - "Dear Gross-Uwe". Uwe Johnson - Fritz J. Raddatz, the correspondence, ed. by Erdmut Wizisla. Frankfurt a. M. 2006. p. 193.
  3. «There is nothing more in a life than in my life» , bazonline.ch