Heinz Brunotte

Arnold August Heinz Brunotte (born June 11, 1896 in Hanover ; † February 2, 1984 ibid) was a German Lutheran theologian. From 1949 to 1965 Brunotte was President of the Church Chancellery of the Evangelical Church in Germany (today: Church Office of the EKD ).

Career

Heinz Brunotte attended the Leibniz Reform Gymnasium in Hanover . From 1919 to 1922 Brunotte studied Protestant theology at the universities of Marburg , Tübingen and Göttingen . This was followed by a two-year course at the Loccum seminary . This was followed by work as an assistant chaplain in Loccum. In autumn 1926 he was one of the founders of the Deinser conference . From it emerged the Hanoverian Young Evangelical Conference in 1929 , an amalgamation of predominantly younger theologians of the Hanoverian regional church, which saw itself as an alternative to the existing synodal groups. In 1927 Heinz Brunotte became pastor in Hoyershausen , Alfeld / Leine district. In 1936 he was appointed to the church chancellery of the EKD, where he worked as senior consistorial councilor until 1946. In 1946, Heinz Brunotte became a senior regional church councilor and a member of the Hanover regional church office . On April 1, 1949, the EKD Council elected him President of the EKD Church Chancellery, and until 1963 he was also President of the VELKD Church Office . In 1965 he left office. In the 1950s he published the Evangelical Church Lexicon together with Otto Weber .

Critical appraisal

In 2010, Jens Gundlach published a biography entitled Heinz Brunotte - Adaptation of the Gospel to the Nazi Dictatorship , in which, in addition to acknowledging Brunotte, his involvement in the Nazi regime is dealt with.

Fonts (selection)

• The coexistence of denominations in the Protestant Church in Germany (= Lutheranism , booklet 9), Berlin 1953
• The basic order of the Evangelical Church in Germany. How it came about and its problems , Berlin 1954
• The Theological Declaration by Barmen 1934 and its relationship to the Lutheran Confession (= Lutheranism , issue 18), Berlin 1955
• as ed. with Otto Weber : Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon. Ecclesiastical-theological concise dictionary , Göttingen 1956 ff.
• as ed. with Erich Ruppel : God is at work. Festschrift for Regional Bishop D. Hanns Lilje on his 60th birthday on August 20, 1959 , Hamburg 1959
• The office of proclamation and the priesthood of all believers (= Lutheranism , No. 26), Berlin 1962
• The Evangelical Church in Germany. History, organization and shape of the EKD , Gütersloh 1964
• as ed. with Konrad Müller & Rudolf Smend : Festschrift for Erich Ruppel. For his 65th birthday on January 25, 1968 , Hanover 1968
• Confession and Church Constitution. Essays on contemporary church history , Göttingen 1977

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Brunotte in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
2. ↑ Heinz Brunotte: The young evangelical movement 1927-1933 . In: Yearbook of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History 77 (1979), pp. 175–196
3. ↑ Simon Benne: Jens Gundlach: "Heinz Brunotte" . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , October 22, 2010 (accessed on July 12, 2015); see also Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover: Hanoverian journalist describes the adaptation of the theologian Heinz Brunotte to the Nazi regime , message on February 1, 2011 (accessed on July 12, 2015)

literature

• Jens Gundlach: Heinz Brunotte - Adaptation of the Gospel to the Nazi dictatorship . Lutheran Publishing House (LVH), Hanover 2010

archive

• Estate in the Landeskirchlichen Archiv Hannover (holdings N 17)