Heinz Beckmann

Heinrich Jakob Hartwig Beckmann (born June 8, 1877 in Wandsbek ; † August 12, 1939 in Sülzhayn ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

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Beckmann studied theology and then went through a vicariate in Schleswig-Holstein. From 1910 to 1920 he worked as a pastor at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden . In 1920 he moved to Hamburg, where he was chief pastor at the St. Nikolai Church until the end of his life .

Gravestone for Heinz Beckmann, Ohlsdorf cemetery

Beckmann was both politically and theologically liberal and headed the liberal faction of the Hamburg Synod. He campaigned for equal rights for women theologians and supported Sophie Kunert , who in 1925 was the first woman from the Hamburg regional church to take the second exam in Protestant theology . He also devoted himself to the training of clergy and school matters. Beckmann, who was considered an educated and talented speaker, edited the Hamburg Church newspaper from 1924 to 1933 and taught the Old Testament in the training of religious teachers .

At the time of the election of the bishop in 1933 Beckmann was senior, but was passed over. The reason for this was his liberal views. In 1934 his teaching assignment was taken from him for reasons of church politics.

Heinz Beckmann was the brother of the women's rights activist, member of parliament (FDP) and high school councilor Emmy Beckmann and her twin sister Hanna . He was certainly sensitized by his sisters to questions of women's emancipation. In the 1920s, for example, he campaigned for equal rights for women theologians, because at that time they were neither ordained nor were they allowed to work alongside pastors on an equal footing.

Heinz Beckmann's grave slab lies in front of the women's garden in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg. The grave slab of Emmy and Hanna Beckmann is in the women's garden.

literature

• Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (Ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , pp. 76-77.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Beckmann in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Eduard Rudolf Grimm	Senior pastor to St. Nikolai in Hamburg 1920–1939	Paul Schütz