Henning Fahrenheim

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Henning Fahrenheim (born March 10, 1895 in Schwerin ; † May 18, 1966 in Ulm ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman. From 1925 to 1934 he was cathedral preacher at Schwerin Cathedral .

Life

Henning Fahrenheim was a son of the Schwerin lawyer and notary Heinrich Fahrenheim. He attended the Gymnasium Fridericianum Schwerin . From August 1914 to December 1918 he did military service in the First World War . He then studied Protestant theology at the universities of Tübingen, Rostock, Berlin and Rostock again. From Michaelmas in 1921 he attended the seminary in Schwerin. In November 1922 he was ordained pastor and appointed assistant preacher for Bad Doberan and Althof . From May 1924 he was pastor for Inner Mission in Rostock . In July 1925 he was appointed to the newly created position as fourth cathedral preacher at Schwerin Cathedral.

Fahrheim was one of the first and harshest critics of the seizure of power by the German Christians close to the National Socialists in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg . In June 1934 there was therefore a trial in Schwerin before a special court in the Fahrenheim together with six other pastors ( Gottfried Holtz , Johannes Schwartzkopff , Hans Werner Ohse and Christian Berg from Boizenburg , Viktor Wittrock from Schwerin and Walter Pagels from Rostock) for “degradation “ Was accused of the National Socialist state and was sentenced to three months imprisonment for violating the treachery ordinance . However, as part of a general amnesty , the sentence was waived. Fahrheim was however forcibly relocated to Kastorf (today part of Knorrendorf near Stavenhagen ).

He was a member of the State Brotherhood of the Confessing Church and participant in the Confession Synods in Barmen in 1934 ( Barmen Declaration ), in Berlin-Dahlem in 1934 ( Church Emergency Law of Dahlem ), in Augsburg in 1935 and in Bad Oeynhausen in 1936 .

Because of a sermon on June 30, 1940, in which he allegedly insulted and degraded the German Wehrmacht, he was imprisoned by the Gestapo for a long time. He then applied for his retirement on April 1, 1941. He went to Württemberg and was accepted into the pastoral service of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg , initially as an acting deputy in Altenmünster . In 1946 he became a regular pastor in Altenmünster. In October 1946, the EKD Council appointed him as a theological consultant at the suggestion of Hans Asmussen, together with Wolfgang Lehmann. In 1949 he went to Ulm as pastor of the Martin Luther Church . In 1958 he retired.

memory

  • Henning-Fahrenheim-Strasse in Crailsheim -Altenmünster

literature

  • Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War: with comments on the previous pastors since the Reformation. Volume 2, Wismar: Self-published 1925, p. 1063
  • Niklot Beste : The Schwerin Trial in June 1934. In: Heinrich Holze (Hrsg.): The Rostock Theological Faculty under two dictatorships. Festschrift for Gert Haendler. Lit-Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-6887-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry by Heinrich Fahrenheim in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Entry in 1919 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Entry 1920 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ↑ Best: Przoess (lit.)
  5. ^ Niklot Beste: The church struggle in Mecklenburg from 1933 to 1945: history, documents, memories. Berlin (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt) / Göttingen (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, licensed edition; works on the history of the church struggle, supplementary series; 9) 1975 ISBN 3-525-55533-4 , p. 226
personal data
SURNAME Fahrheim, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1966
Place of death Ulm