Helmut Orphal

Helmut Orphal (* 1926 ) is a German former Evangelical Lutheran pastor at the Marienkirche in Berlin .

Life

Orphal is the son of the pastor and resistance fighter against National Socialism Ernst Orphal . After obtaining his university entrance qualification, he studied Protestant theology and was then accepted into the vicariate of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg . After completing his Vicariate time he became a priest ordained and practiced late 1950s a job in the office of the Protestant Student Communities (ESG) in Berlin. There he organized several ESG summer conferences in Lutherstadt Wittenberg , for which he put together working material. From about 1963 to 1991 he was in charge of the pastoral office at St. Marien Church in the center of Berlin (East) for over three decades. He became the promoter of the “ Open Church ” project and during the years of his service led numerous tour groups and delegations through the church next to the television tower .

Orphal was a member of the Christian Peace Conference and participated in the 1st All-Christian Peace Assembly (ACFV) in 1961 and the III. ACFV (1968), which took place in Prague . From the latter he was also elected to its committee to continue the work.

In 1985 he was one of the members of the GDR committee for the celebrations for the 750th anniversary of the city of Berlin .

In 2009 he participated in the presentation of contemporary church history at the Long Night of Museums .

During the Evangelical Church's Decade of Peace in November 2000, he unveiled a memorial plaque at the St. Jacobi Church in Sangerhausen , where his father, as a member of the Confessing Church , had taken a stand against the Nazi system . The installation of the plaque was initiated by the Sangerhausen History Association.

Works

As a co-author

• Bruno Schottstädt (ed.): Concrete - binding. Notes from the GDR (therein Bruno Schottstädt: greeting to Horst Symanowski )
• Helmut Orphal: On the way of the church in the socialist society of the GDR
• Fritz Mewes : Together for people
• Günter Jacob : Sermon and social existence
• Albrecht Schönherr : Our Christianity today will consist of only two things: praying and doing what is righteous among people
• Bruno Schottstädt: Thoughts on pastoral care today and on celebrating with contemporaries
• Herbert Landmann : Thoughts on charity in socialist society;
• Gerhard Johann : The confusion of the community
• Johannes Cieslak : On the tension in the church
• Jürgen Michel : Current tensions in the church
• Martin Ziegler : On the reorganization of church leadership
• Carl Order : Lenin's Revolutionary Realism and the Theology of Revolution
• Horst Berger : Some thoughts and attempts on the way from ideological to playful Christianity, Herbert Reich Hamburg-Bergstedt 1971

Individual evidence

1. ^ Resistance to National Socialism. The Sangerhausen Pastor Ernst Orphal ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.1 MB)  
2. ^ Archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland ( Memento from August 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ The year 1987 - a year of great uncertainties and new beginnings ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 34 kB)  
4. ^ Cultural projects Berlin: Long Night of the Museums
5. ^ Association for the history of Sangerhausen and the surrounding area eV