Hans A. de Boer

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Hans Carl Alfred de Boer (born April 13, 1925 in Hamburg ; † March 30, 2017 in Duisburg ) was a German church missionary and pastor .

Life

Hans de Boer was born in Hamburg in 1925 as the youngest son of the W. de Boer family and, unlike his two siblings, was not brought up in a boarding school, but spent his entire childhood in Hamburg. From 1930 to 1941 he attended a commercial college in Hamburg and then completed an apprenticeship as an import and export merchant.

Due to his father's membership in the Stahlhelm, which was dissolved in 1933 , he was a member of the so-called Jung-Stahlhelm . When he was absorbed by the Hitler Youth , he became a horde leader in the German Young People . However, his father was rather critical of National Socialism . The banned broadcaster BBC London was regularly heard in the parental home. According to his own statements, he "dodged" the Hitler Youth and was active in the Swing Youth , whose protests he later described as "ridiculous". At the age of 17, de Boer experienced the extermination of the Jews in the Generalgouvernement when he was in Poland for the RAD in the “economic east”. There he experienced the brutality of the SS and Wehrmacht against the civilian population. He forged baptismal certificates for Jews after hearing that baptized Jews were not gassed until later. After his return to Hamburg he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and used as an artillery soldier in occupied France. In 1944 he was taken prisoner of war by the United States as a private. There he worked for the American secret service CIC after his release .

Then de Boer joined his father's company W. de Boer and Co Im- und Export, Hamburg, as an authorized signatory. From 1950 he was foreign department manager for his father's company in Omaruru in South West Africa (Namibia) for electrical appliances and the purchase of wool; This was followed by collaboration in technical companies in South Africa. He received an invitation to India as a German participant in the 3rd World Congress of Christian Youth ("Christ is the answer"), together with Martin Niemöller , Christmas 1952 in Kottayam, South India. Before his trip to India he visited the Gandhi family in Durban / South Africa. After his one-hour speech at the conference, he received invitations to twelve Asian and North American countries, each for lectures, one week each: Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, PR China, Japan, USA, Canada.

After his return to Germany, he first received a lengthy letter from “Unterwegs notiert”. Then de Boer was an international speaker in the management of the Reich Association of Young Men’s Work in the YMCA in Kassel and then in the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .

De Boer studied Jewish, Catholic and Protestant theology and sociology at the University of Toronto and the University of Manitoba in Canada . The stations in detail: 1958–1959 Chairman of the Evangelical Working Group on Conscientious Objection and Peace . 1960–1961 General Secretary of the Christian Student Union at Kings College, Dalhousi Universities, Halifax Nova Scotias, Canada. 1961 Student pastor in Shamrock, Saskatchewan, United Church of Canada. 1962 Student pastor in Edmonton, Alberta, United Church of Canada. 1963 Yewish Studies University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. 1964 Mennonite University Christian Ethics, Winnipeg, Manitoba

May 6, 1964: At the end of the three-year course at Emmanuel College of Victoria University of Ontario , Toronto, he received a certificate signed by the President of Victoria University, BB Moore.

He worked as a lecturer in international affairs in Sevagram, Wardha, India, as a nurse with the Khmer Rouge forces in the WCC's anti-racism program, Geneva, Cambodia, where his Indian partner, Mary, a doctor, was tortured to death by government forces. Later as the pedagogical director of the “Aktion Third World Trade”, Hamburg, and as a lecturer for dogmatics at the Diaconal-Theological Training Center in Mülheim / Ruhr. From 1974 to 1990 he was a vocational school pastor at vocational schools in Duisburg. In 2006 he received from Norbert Lammert the honorary certificate for extraordinary moral courage of the " Aktiongemeinschaftinn ". Hans de Boer lived the last years as pastor i. R. in Duisburg-Buchholz.

He died on March 30, 2017 in Duisburg and was buried anonymously in Duisburg at his own request.

International stays:

1978 Kampuchea, Canada, USA
1979 Japan, PR China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, New Zealand, Australia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Burma, Sri Lanka, India, Kuwait, Iran
1980 Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Cameroon, Togo, Sierra Leone, Israel
1981 Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Poland, GDR
1982 USA, USSR, GDR
1983 One semester of study in the USA: Liberation, Black and Feminist Theology
1990 Amsterdam

Fonts

  • Blessed restlessness. The confession of a pious provocateur. 4th updated edition. Lamuv, Göttingen 2006. ISBN 3-88977-576-4
  • Decision for Hope 3rd edition 1994. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1984. ISBN 3-87294-239-5 . With a foreword by Erhard Eppler
  • Experienced on the go. Notes from three continents 2nd edition. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal, 1976. ISBN 3-77957-509-4 . With a foreword by Helmut Gollwitzer
  • On the way in East and West 2nd edition, EVZ-Verlag-AG-Zurich 1960. With a foreword by Walther Lüthi
  • On the way notes "Report on a trip around the world JGOncken Verlag Kassel 1956 with foreword by Martin Niemöller as well as 12 color and 50 black-and-white photos by the author. German edition over 190,000 copies. Further editions in Holland, France, Norway, England, USA, Canada, Australia and South Africa.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Population register Hamburg 1941 p. 65, 1941, accessed on February 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Hans A. de Boer - Munzinger biography. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Hans A. de Boer, Gesegnete Unrest, 1995, p. 23ff
  4. ↑ https://www.friedenskooperative.de/friedensforum/artikel/hans-a-de-boer-gesegnete-unruhe Confession of a pious provocateur, Lamuv-Verlag review 1/1998
  5. ↑ http://www.kirche-duisburg.de/2013-3-00-artikel-komplett-980-de-boer.php Mahner and provocateur Hans A. de Boer died
  6. ^ Church district Duisburg: Blessed unrest. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Boer, Hans A. de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boer, Hans Carl Alfred de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2017
Place of death Duisburg