Helmut Lindenmeyer

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Helmut Lindenmeyer (born May 17, 1904 in Bucharest , † October 26, 1974 in Bozen ) was a German Lutheran pastor.

Lindenmeyer attended St. Anna high school in Augsburg , studied Protestant theology in Tübingen , Kiel , Berlin , Erlangen and Zurich and attended a seminary in Munich . From 1929 to 1932 he worked as an exposed vicar and as a religion teacher at the state educational center Schondorf am Ammersee , after which he was pastor of the German Protestant community in Bozen until 1936. In 1936 he went back to Germany, where he worked as a pastor in Berchtesgaden until 1945 ; during the war he was also the site and hospital pastor there. From 1945 to 1974 he was dean of the Augsburg church district. He belonged to the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria , the general synod of the United Ev.-Luth. Church of Germany and the Diaconal Council in Bavaria, was also deputy chairman of the Evangelical Settlement Works in Bavaria, Church Council and from 1966 to 1971 a member of the Bavarian Senate .

On May 14, 1965 he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.

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