Herbert von Hintzenstern

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Herbert von Hintzenstern (born October 24, 1916 in Magdeburg ; † January 22, 1996 in Weimar ) was a German pastor and author .

Life

Von Hintzenstern studied Protestant theology in Halle (Saale) and Jena from 1936 to 1940 . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . In 1939 he declared his collaboration with the Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life (Eisenacher “Entjudungsinstitut”). In 1940 he received his doctorate in Jena with a doctoral thesis supervised by Walter Grundmann on Houston Stewart Chamberlain's representation of early Christianity as a Dr. theol. Grundmann regarded Hintzenstern as his most talented student and made him his colleague in the Eisenach "Entjudungsinstitut". Afterwards he was vicar in Jena and Eisenach , where he was ordained a pastor and worked in the regional church office. From 1943 he was assistant preacher in Eisenach. From 1943 he did his military service as a medic and was taken prisoner. Since August 1945 he was in Lauscha , from 1948 as pastor. Here he joined the GDR CDU . In 1952 he was appointed regional youth pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia . From 1956 he headed the Evangelical Academy of Thuringia and the church's press office. At the same time he was appointed editor-in-chief of the church newspaper Glaube und Heimat . In 1962 he was appointed to the church council. From 1968 to 1986 he was part-time director of the rectory archive in the Lutherhaus in Eisenach . In 1981 he retired.

Fonts (selection)

See Konrad Marwinski: Herbert von Hintzenstern (1916–1996). Personal bibliography . In: Hostels of Christianity . Yearbook for German Church History 25 (2001), pp. 93–149.

Monographs

  • H. St. Chamberlain's Representation of Early Christianity. Weimar: Verlag Deutsche Christen; Weimar: Der neue Dom, Schneider & Co. 1941 (Studies on German theology and piety; Vol. 6)
  • The cross altar in Gräfentonna - an unknown masterpiece. A picture book. Berlin: Ev. Publishing house, 1957
  • (with Karl Brinkel): The gentleman's name stands by us. Luther's friends and students in Thuringia. Vol. 1, 1961
  • (with Karl Brinkel): Oh God, how richly you comfort you. 1962
  • The picture sermon of the Gotha table altar. Berlin 1965
  • Luther in Eisenach. 1967
  • The altars in Bibra - from Riemenschneider's workshop. Berlin 1969
  • Lucas Cranach the Elder Ä. Altarpieces from the Reformation period. 1975
  • 300 days of solitude: documents and data from Luther's time in the Wartburg. 1982
  • Colored reflection. 1985
  • Village churches in Thuringia. 2nd edition, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1986. (1st edition 1979)
  • From Würzburg to Bibra. Riemenschneider altars in Thuringia. 1987
  • Herder in Weimar. 1988

Essays

  • See the whole. On the 2-year anniversary of the death of Hans von Wolzogens . In: German Christianity 5 (1940), issue 16, p. 2.
  • Arthur Bonus (1864-1941). Will and work . In: Volk im Werden 10 (1942), pp. 1–12.

Editing

  • Domine dirige me in verbo tuo. Lord, guide me according to your word! Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Regional Bishop Dr. Moritz Mitzenheim .
  • 50 years in the service of the Church. A ceremony to mark the golden jubilee of ordination by Regional Bishop Dr. Moritz Mitzenheim on October 18, 1964 .
  • Altarpieces from the Reformation era Lucas Cranach the Elder Ä. - Ed. 1969
  • Martin Luther: Letters from the Wartburg 1521/22. (Papers of the Wartburg Foundation 4), new edition 1991
  • Foundations: Thirty articles on the history of the Church in Thuringia. 1987

literature

  • Erich Stegmann: The church struggle in the Thuringian Evangelical Church 1933-1945 . Berlin 1984.
  • Ernst Koch: In memoriam Herbert von Hintzenstern . In: Herbergen der Christenheit , Vol. 21/22 (1997/1998), pp. 271–273.
  • Thomas A. Seidel (Ed.): Thuringian ridge walks. Contributions to the 75-year history of the Protestant regional church of Thuringia (= hostels of Christianity. Yearbook for German church history, special volume 3 ). Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-374-01699-5 .
  • Konrad Marwinski: Herbert von Hintzenstern (1916–1996). Personal bibliography . In: Hostels of Christianity . Yearbook for German Church History 25 (2001), pp. 93–149, on the biography especially pp. 93–95.
  • Oliver Arnhold: “De-Judgment” - Church in the Abyss. The Thuringian Church Movement German Christians 1928–1939 and the “Institute for Research into and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life” 1939–1945 . 2 vols. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-938435-00-7 .
  • Short biography for:  Hintzenstern, Herbert von . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 142.
  2. ↑ According to Marwinski (2001), p. 96, the publication was "pulped at the instigation of the Reichsschrifttumskammer".
  3. ↑ Willi Wild, Michael von Hintzenstern, Matthias von Hintzenstern: The coat of silence , faith and home , No. 41, October 13, 2019, p. 3.
  4. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer : The church “Entjudungsinstitut” 1939 to 1945 in the Lutherstadt Eisenach , p. 16, footnote 35.
  5. ↑ Here he arranged the estate of Arthur Bonus , a representative of Germanized Christianity, cf. Marwinski (2001), p. 94.
  6. ↑ Thomas A. Seidel: In the transition of the dictatorships. An examination of the church reorganization in Thuringia 1945–1951 (Denomination and Society 29), Stuttgart 2003, p. 341; Oliver Arnhold: "Entjudung" - Kirche im Abgrund, vol. 2. The "Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life" 1939–1945 (Studies on Church and Israel 25/2), Berlin 2010, p. 805
personal data
SURNAME Hintzenstern, Herbert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1996
Place of death Weimar