Heinrich Bernds

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Heinrich Bernds (born July 14, 1901 in Dinslaken ; missing in Courland in April 1945 , declaration of death on December 31, 1945) was a German Reformed clergyman.

Life

Heinrich Bernds, who was born as the eighth child of a nursery owner, began studying economics and social sciences in Cologne in 1921 after graduating from the Oberhausen municipal high school . He continued his studies in Bonn and Vienna continued and completed his doctorate in 1927 in Innsbruck for Doctor Rerum politicarum . Influenced by Karl Barth , Bernds completed his theology studies in Bonn, Münster , Elberfeld and Halle (Saale) from 1928 . Bernds performed his vicariate in Nordhorn and Uelsen and from April 1934 to March 1935 he worked as an auxiliary preacher for the Evangelical Reformed congregation in Frankfurt am Main .

Bernds returned from Frankfurt to Uelsen, where he became a pastor and maintained close contacts with Peter Schumacher . When both came into conflict with each other after the National Socialist takeover of power in the German Reich during the church struggle, Bernds joined the circle around the Schüttorf pastor Friedrich Middendorff . A little later, Bernds came into conflict with the Reich leadership through criticism of National Socialism and the “ Jewish question ”. Denounced after a visit to the community , a special court in Celle sentenced him in November 1940 to 18 months in prison for "offenses against the treachery law ". Bernds was relieved of his office and banned from his profession, so that he joined the Wehrmacht as the father of three children following his prison sentence . As a soldier, Bernds was deployed on the Eastern Front in Courland , where he went missing in April 1945 during the final months of the Second World War . The death declaration was issued on August 17, 1951; the date of death is December 31, 1945.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Koch: Dr. Heinrich Bernds, economist and theologian . Ed .: Sigrid Lekebusch, Hans-Georg Ulrichs. Foebus, S. 276 .
personal data
SURNAME Bernds, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reformed clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Dinslaken
DATE OF DEATH after April 1945