Heinz Dungs

Heinz Dungs (born December 21, 1898 in Sterkrade , † January 8, 1949 in Soviet custody) was a German theologian and pastor .

Life

Dungs studied Protestant theology and was appointed vicar of the Rhineland Church Province of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union in 1921 and was appointed by this in Bonn , Düsseldorf and Engers . In 1923 he was ordained pastor and took over the pastor's office in Kleinich im Hunsrück in 1925 , in Krefeld in 1929 and in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1934 . Since then he has been a member of the German Christian Church Movement . In 1937 he was taken over by the Thuringian Church as provisional pastor for church-wide tasks . From 1938 he was press pastor in Weimar and was in charge of the church journal Glaube und Heimat . From 1939 he was managing director at the Institute for Research and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life . He played a decisive role in the development and publication of a “de-Judaised” hymn book under the title “Great God, we praise you”. From 1943 he was the provisional pastor in Blankenhain and from 1945 administered the parish in Troistedt . In 1946 he was dismissed due to the church cleaning law . He was arrested by the Soviet military administration in Germany and then taken to a special camp .

Works

• On the question of public holidays. A contribution from the Protestant civil servant movement . Verlag des Evangelischen Bundes, Berlin 1930, ( publications of the Association of German Protestant Officials Associations 1).
• On becoming a German national church. Basic statements of the National Church Movement German Christians. At the same time an answer to the question of time about the future of Protestantism . Verlag Deutsche Christen, Weimar 1938.

literature

• Heiner Faulenbach: A letter from Otto Ohl to Heinz Dungs . In: Joachim Mehlhausen (Ed.): "... and beyond Barmen". Studies on contemporary church history. Festschrift for Carsten Nicolaisen on April 4, 1994 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-525-55723-X , ( work on contemporary church history, series B, representations 23), pp. 296–304.
• Barbara Kaufhold: Faith under National Socialism in Mülheim an der Ruhr - Confessing Church and German Christians, Christians of Jewish origin, free churches and free works as well as resistance in the Catholic Church ; ed. from the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History; Klartext, Essen 2006, pp. 107-109, 130-156; ISBN 3-89861-626-6
• Holger Weitenhagen: Evangelical and German. Heinz Dungs and the press policy of the German Christians . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7927-1837-5 , ( series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History 146), (At the same time: Bonn, Univ., Diss., 1999: From the “wake-up call” to the “national church”. Heinz Dungs and the press policy of German Christians ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer : "We went astray." The church's guilt under the swastika. Pahl-Rugenstein-Verlag , Cologne 1987, p. 150f.
2. ↑ Landeskirchenarchiv Eisenach: hand files of the Spruchstelle - cleaning law of 12.12.1945 and application .
3. ^ Holger Weitenhagen: Evangelical and German. Heinz Dungs and the press policy of the German Christians . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 2001, p. 16.