Herbert Hemprich

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Herbert Hemprich (born September 8, 1913 in Seehausen , Wanzleben district ; † April 28, 1985 in Oldenburg ) was a German Protestant church lawyer and from 1964 to 1981 senior legal counsel for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg .

Life

Herbert Hemprich studied law and political science at the Georg August University in Göttingen and in Berlin. He was a member of the Hannovera Göttingen fraternity . In 1938 he received his doctorate in Göttingen. From 1939 to 1946 Hemprich was in military service or in Soviet captivity. During his military service he was appointed Reichsbahnassessor in 1941 and appointed Reichsbahnrat in 1942.

In 1947 Hemprich switched to church service and began as a consultant in the provincial office of the EKD relief organization in Magdeburg. From 1950 he was consistorial councilor , from 1956 senior consistorial councilor of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony , each with responsibility for the legal affairs of the diocese of Magdeburg.

In 1957, in the intensified struggle of the SED regime against the churches , arrests and trials of the Consistorial President Kurt Grünbaum and the Chief Consistorial Councilor Dr. Siegfried Klewitz on account of the illegal importation of DM East from West Berlin into the GDR ( "money exchange process" ) under GDR law . The defense documents of the Diocese of Magdeburg in the proceedings that u. a. pointed out errors and omissions according to the GDR code of criminal procedure, made Herbert Hemprich, which was known to the Ministry for State Security , the State Secretariat for Church Affairs , the District Public Prosecutor and District Government Magdeburg. Bishop D. Johannes Jänicke and Hemprich presented the allegations of violation of applicable law to government agencies and ensured that the communities in the diocese made intercessions for the detainees. The district attorney's office in Magdeburg investigated Hemprich and considered taking him into custody; government agencies also meant that his children could neither graduate nor study. The family then left the GDR for West Berlin in 1958 after an exit application was approved surprisingly quickly.

From 1958 to 1964 Hemprich held the position of an administrative judge in Berlin (West). From 1964 to 1981 he was the legal senior church councilor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg and representative of the bishop "in administrative matters, church regulations and legislation, personnel and salary issues, finances, church taxes". In this capacity, alongside Bishop Gerhard Jakobi, he was a participant in the first Ecumenical Discussion of the Ev.-Luth. Church in Oldenburg and the Episcopal Office of Vechta on January 8, 1966, which established the oldest ecumenical conversation tradition in Germany at church leadership level. From 1971 to 1979 he was sent by the Upper Church Council to the Council of the Confederation of Protestant Churches in Lower Saxony .

In the discussion about the church paper of the FDP from 1974 Free Church in the Free State , Hemprich advocated a factual handling of the paper by the churches and stated that some of the FDP theses were legally acceptable to the churches. Hemprich's stance comes from his clear affirmation of the separation of church and state in the sense of the church articles of the Weimar Constitution incorporated by Art. 140 Basic Law (Art. 137 ff.) While at the same time emphasizing their necessary partnership in society. For example, using the example of the church community and the political community, especially in the field of diakonia or Caritas, with all commonalities, he also developed something separating in the self-understanding of the Movens of the different bodies, namely the obligation to the common good of the political body of the community and the obligation to actively preach of the gospel of the church community in its relationship to God.

Hemprich was an honorary member of the Synod of the Church Province of Saxony from 1955 to 1958, later a member of the board of the Protestant hospital in Oldenburg and from 1968 to 1985 a member of the Hermann Ehlers Foundation .

Publications

  • The termination of the rental contract for an important reason, at the same time a contribution to the continuing obligation. Diss. Göttingen 1938, Nolte, Düsseldorf 1937
  • Development and importance of the confederation. In: Festgabe for Bishop D [oktor] D [okto] r Hans Heinrich Harms on the occasion of his 70th birthday: July 4th, 1984. Evangelical Luther. Oberkirchenrat, Oldenburg 1984, pp. 35-48

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Hemprich , directory of members of the fraternity of Hannovera Göttingen
  2. ↑ The termination of the lease for an important reason, ... Düsseldorf 1937 (Göttingen legal and political dissertation)
  3. ↑ https://www.pw-portal.de/rezension/30629-im-kontext-verschaerfter-angriff-auf-die-kirche_36374
  4. ^ Propaganda photo of the GDR: "Foreign exchange smuggling of the Protestant Church"
  5. ↑ Harald Schultze, In the context of intensified attacks on the church; Kurt Grünbaum and the money exchange process 1957/58 , Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2009, p. 170ff
  6. ↑ Harald Schultze, In the context of intensified attacks on the church; Kurt Grünbaum and the money exchange process 1957/58 , Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2009, p. 172 with further references
  7. ↑ a b On the curriculum vitae as a whole: Harald Schultze (ed.), Reports of the Magdeburg church leadership on the conferences of the provincial synod 1946-1989 , Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1st edition 2005, ISBN 978-3-525-55760-0 , biograms and register of persons, p. 691
  8. ↑ Paperback of the Evangelical Churches in Germany. Evangelisches Verlagswerk, Stuttgart 1966, p. 182; limited preview in Google Book search
  9. ↑ Press release of the Vechta Office on the 50th anniversary of the "Oldenburg Ecumenical Conversation" from February 1, 2016
  10. ↑ Some FDP theses also to be accepted by the church - Oldenburger Oberkirchenrat against polemics about church paper , in: epd Niedersachsen No. 14/74 of January 21, 1974.
  11. ↑ Tabea Mariga Esch: "Free Church in the Free State": the church paper of the FDP in the context of church politics from 1966 to 1974. Zugl. Diss. Univ. Münster (Westphalia) 2008, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150617-8 , p. 498; limited preview in Google Book search
  12. ↑ Hemprich: Legal aspects of the public task of the church, especially in education and diakonia , lecture on the occasion of the 25th meeting of the Johanniter Working Group for Contemporary Issues in Northern Germany , in: "From authority to right of resistance" ; Summary and evaluation of 25 meetings of the Johanniter Arbeitsgemeinschaft 1963 to 1971, Hanover 1972, pp. 45–47
personal data
SURNAME Hemprich, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant church lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Seehausen , Wanzleben district
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1985
Place of death Oldenburg