Hermann Hartmut Bergengruen

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Hermann Hartmut Bergengruen ( Hermann Bergengruen for short ; * February 14, 1936 in Rostock ; † June 21, 1997 in Hanover ) was a Protestant pastor , peace activist and author and is considered at the regional level as a co-founder of the later federal party Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen .

Life

Hermann Bergengruen was born in 1936 at the time of National Socialism as the son of a ministerial director . After the Second World War he studied theology at the universities in Heidelberg and Göttingen . After he was ordained in 1964 , he took over the position of pastor of a church in Harburg and Maschen .

In the course of the 1968 movement , Hermann Bergengruen was elected student pastor in the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover , where he represented the interests of the politically left student body . With this, Bergengruen fought against " arbitrary government " and against the " possessing class ". The active opponent of nuclear power fought for “ freedom , justice and the preservation of creation ” and became a co-founder of the Green List Environmental Protection (GLU): On the evening of November 30, 1979, “the left-wing radical pastor” with membership number 17 was there, along with Helmut Lippelt , who later became a member of the Bundestag , when the GLU, the Green Action Future and the Action Group for Independent Germans merged to form the Hanoverian district association of the Greens in the Künstlerhaus of the state capital Hanover , even before the later federal party Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen was founded. Hermann Bergengruen was also a co-founder of Radio Flora .

In 1977 Hermann Bergengruen was deposed as pastor by the Evangelical Student Congregation, who then switched to hospital chaplaincy before returning to Sarstedt in 1979 as a - controversial - pastor: introduced to his office on January 1st of that year by superintendent Hundertmark the priest brought the hitherto "rather fussy" congregation of the evangelical Church of St. Paul in Sarstedt district gable Stieg in motion: on the occasion of the NATO double resolution demanded Berggruen the cast of tanks in which community members to participate in the called peace demonstration in Bonn Hofgarten on - and thereby shattered "the already strained relationship between large parts of the community, the church council and [... his own person]". As a result, he gave up his office in Sarstedt in 1985 and took over the pastor's office of the Martin Luther Church in Ahlem in 1986 .

Hermann Bergengruen was buried in a grave in the Ahlem cemetery .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Dirk Böttcher : Bergengruen, Hermann Hartmut. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 59.
  2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ↑ Gunnar Menkens: Retrospect / Aufstiegspropheten / In November 1979 activists founded the Hanoverian district association of the Greens and quickly strived to join the SPD. ( Memento from July 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from November 20, 2009
  4. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Alliance 90 / The Greens. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 93.
  5. ↑ Petra Stelter, Hans-Peter Borcholt (responsible): The history of the pastors in St. Paulus ( memento from July 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the page sankt-paulus-sarstedt.de
personal data
SURNAME Bergengruen, Hermann Hartmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergengruen, Hermann; Bergengruen, Hermann the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, peace activist, co-founder of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1997
Place of death Hanover