Heinz Kappes
Heinz Kappes (born November 30, 1893 in Fahrenbach ; † May 1, 1988 in Stuttgart ) was a Protestant pastor and Quaker , translator and religious socialist.
Life
The son of a Protestant pastor completed a degree in theology and oriental studies at the universities of Tübingen, Berlin and Heidelberg. Volunteer during the First World War , he completed a vicariate from 1919 to 1920 and was then pastor of the Badische Landeskirche (whose synod he was a member of from 1926 to 1933), where he was active in social and youth work in Karlsruhe. Kappes joined the Religious Socialists in 1922 and also the SPD in 1924 , which he represented on the Karlsruhe city council from 1930 to 1933.
During the time of National Socialism , Kappes was first transferred in 1933, then released from the parish office and expelled from Baden, whereupon he emigrated to Palestine in 1934 . Before he emigrated, he had the opportunity to stay briefly at Rest Home Falkenstein .
Kappes stayed in Palestine until 1948 and was active in peace work between Arabs and Jews. He also came into contact with American and British Quakers, whom he joined. He initially worked as a German teacher and then from 1940 to 1948 at British Food Control .
In 1948 he returned to Karlsruhe, was rehabilitated by the regional church and initially worked as a religion teacher; from 1952 he was a lecturer at the Diaconal Science Institute of Heidelberg University. In 1949 he was one of the co-founders of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation . He was a founding member of the Rotary Club Karlsruhe. In 2000 the Rotary Club Karlsruhe-Fächerstadt donated a prize named after it for the exemplary commitment of young people.
During a stay in the USA in 1950 he came into contact with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and began to make their ideas known in Germany, including through translations. After his retirement in 1959 he translated a. a. the works of Sri Aurobindo as well as basic writings of the AA and EA from the English. In the main work of the AA, the book Alcoholics Anonymous (also called "The Blue Book" because of its blue cover), he is named as the translator of the first German edition. To this day, his life story under the title God, as I understand him is the final word of the German edition. In his life story, however, he does not mention his Quakerism at all.
literature
- Friedrich-Martin Balzer and Gert Wendelborn : "We are not mute dogs." Heinz Kappes (1893-1988). Christian and socialist in the Weimar Republic. Bonn 1994 ISBN 3-89144-197-5
- Thomas K. Kuhn : Kappes, Heinz (Martin Heinrich). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 833.
- Roland Löffler: Exile without patronage. The religious socialist Heinz Kappes in Jerusalem. In: Andrew Chandler, Katarzyna Stoklosa, Jutta Vincent (eds): Exile and Patronage. Lit, Münster 2006 ISBN 978-3-8258-0014-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinz Kappes in the catalog of the German National Library
- The city wiki Pfenz on Heinz Kappes
- Led by the Spirit - the pages of the Heinz-Kappes Freundeskreis
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kappes, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publicist, translator, pastor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fahrbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1988 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |