Hans Meyer (pastor)

Hans Meyer (born May 23, 1910 in Düsseldorf , † April 6, 1971 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) was a German Protestant pastor .

Hans Meyer

Life

Until 1934 Hans Meyer was vicar in the Protestant market church in Neuwied . However, when he joined the Confessing Church in August 1934 and refused to obey the new Reich Bishop Ludwig Müller , he was dismissed from church service and was banned from preaching. Several arrests by the Gestapo followed . After the beginning of the Second World War , Meyer was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1940 and took part in the German-Soviet War . He received the Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class. In February 1945 he came to Neuwied as a captain and city ​​commandant because of an injury . On March 22, 1945, when the US Army approached, he hoisted the white flag on the church tower of the Marktkirche and declared Neuwied an open city .

In 1948 he volunteered as the only pastor in the Rhineland to take care of the German prisoners of war in France and then spent a year in Lens . From 1946 to 1957 he was pastor at the Resurrection Church in Oberkassel (Düsseldorf) . Then he was the state social pastor of the Rhenish Church and taught as the second director of studies after Günter Altner at the Evangelical Academy in Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Meyer was a founding member of the All-German People's Party (GVP) and campaigned with Gustav Heinemann against the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Honors

• In Neuwied the pastor Meyer Straße is named after him.

Web links

Commons : Hans Meyer (priest)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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• Hans Meyer: Neuwied in the last chaos of the war in 1945. Memories of the period from February 16 to March 22, 1945.
• City administration Neuwied (ed.): Albert Meinhardt, 300 years Neuwied. A city and homeland book, Neuwied 1953.
• Entry on Hans Meyer in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
• List of former pastors in Oberkassel