Heinrich Diestelmeier (Pastor)

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Heinrich Diestelmeier (* 1916 in Bad Salzuflen ; † September 10, 2001 in Lemgo-Brake ) was a German Evangelical Reformed pastor .

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After graduating from university , he studied Protestant theology and became vicar of the Lippe regional church . After his second theological exam, he was ordained a pastor . For most of his life he was pastor at the Church of St. Nicolaus zu Brake.

Diestelmeier was a pastor committed to social and human rights who, in addition to his work as a pastor, campaigned for political clarification, for the investigation of Nazi crimes and for reconciliation with the peoples invaded by Germany. He is considered to be the founder of the 1967 initiative “ Flowers for Stukenbrock ”, with which the 65,000 Soviet prisoners of war who perished in German captivity in the main camp VI K (326) (“Sennelager”) were commemorated. In particular, Diestelmeier campaigned against forgetting and suppressing the effects of the Nazi tyranny . For the book “Forgotten KZs ?” He wrote a contribution that was a plea for reconciliation with the peoples of the Soviet Union.

Heinrich Diestelmeier dealt as a local chronicle with the history of the Jews of Lemgo, but also considered the discussion of anti-Semitism and racism in post-war German society to be essential. As a war opponent, he was one of the protesters against the Vietnam War . Together with Heinrich Albertz he took part in the demonstration against the NATO double resolution in Bonn in 1981 . He condemned the Bundestag resolution on German participation in the Kosovo war .

Diestelmeier worked in the Christian Peace Conference (CFK), at whose 1st All-Christian Peace Assembly he took part in Prague in 1961 .

Publications

  • Two kinds of inscriptions (Thoughtful on November 9th ), in: Kirchengemeinde Brake. Information and Opinions, No. 38/1975
  • The forgotten concentration camps? - Memorial sites for the victims of Nazi terror in the Federal Republic; Garbe, Detlef (ed.). In it: Heinrich Diestelmeier: Reconciliation over the graves - flowers for Stukenbrock, Bornheim-Merten: Lamuv Verlag, 1983, ISBN 392152184X

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Soviet burial ground Stukenbrock
  2. ^ Obituary Pastor Diestelmeier
  3. ↑ http://www.hexenbuergermeisterhaus.de/bibliografie0.html?&L=0
  4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.zeit.de
personal data
SURNAME Diestelmeier, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German evangelical reformed pastor
DATE OF BIRTH 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Salzuflen
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 2001
Place of death Lemgo-Brake