Horst Stuckmann

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Horst Stuckmann (born August 16, 1935 in Witten ; † January 3, 2008 in Neu-Isenburg ) was a German Protestant pastor, deputy state chairman of the German Peace Union of North Rhine-Westphalia, trade unionist and state chairman of the VVN-BdA .

Life

After attending elementary school and high school , Horst Stuckmann studied Protestant theology in Heidelberg and at the Westphalian Wilhelms University .

During his studies he became a member of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS). For the SDS he took part in a meeting with the Central Council of Free German Youth in East Berlin . Stuckmann was a member of the All-German People's Party and the German Peace Union. In 1969, together with Renate Riemeck , he supported the federal election campaign of the electoral alliance Action Democratic Progress . Since the mid-1960s he was one of the organizers of the Easter march movement .

Stuckmann was one of the editors of the SDAJ's elan magazine, published by Weltkreis-Verlag , in which he also published himself.

After his vicariate he was ordained as a Protestant pastor and called to the parish pastor. For a long time he worked as a student pastor in Mainz. With the amateur theater group he founded as a parish priest in Neu-Isenburg , he regularly performed classical and contemporary plays even after he left church service. During his time as a student pastor, he copied the underground sheet “FTA with Pride”, a periodical by and for US soldiers in Germany, which spread “ Black Panther slogans” and “left-wing slogans” in the rooms of the Evangelical Student Congregation, and therefore got caught in an illegal wiretapping by American military authorities.

From 1973, Stuckmann was state chairman of the Rhineland-Palatinate Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists (VVN). In July 1973, he was head of a group of CFRP -Youth participants in the X. World Festival of Youth and Students in East Berlin and accommodating their representatives in the West German working group Festival (ACF).

Horst Stuckmann supported the movement against the radical decree . The refusal to curtail his political activities led to an "official discipline" against him as a pastor. That is why he resigned from the church service when the VVN offered him a full-time job for their Federal Presidium.

Stuckmann appeared as a speaker at numerous events for peace and democracy and was also involved in the environmental movement, including the fight against the West Runway . He was one of the first to sign the union network against the war initiative .

Since the late 1990s he has been involved in the activities of the Federal Peace Council Committee. He was part of the editorial team of the "FriedensJournal" and was active in the Peace and Future Workshop in Frankfurt am Main . Stuckmann was active as a journalist with a book on anti-Semitism, on religious socialists and as editor of the magazine “The New Voice of the Community”.

Fonts (selection)

  • Christians against fascism and war. Decision for life and solidarity. Hanover 1999
  • Right to peace, duty to resist. Röderberg-Verlag: Frankfurt am Main 1983
  • When the synagogues burned. Röderberg-Verlag: Frankfurt am Main 1978
  • The religious socialists. From faith for a society without oppressors and oppressed. In: information. Edited by the German Resistance Study Group 1933–1945 eV Issue 65, 2007, p. 16 ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ respectively. Church newspaper of the Johannesgemeinde . No. 1 , 2008, p. 23 .
  2. ↑ AFFAIRS: Subject 2212 - 1400 . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1973 ( online - Aug. 6, 1973 ).
  3. ↑ http://mainz.vvn-bda.de/60jahrFeier.php
  4. ↑ http://www.labournet.de/krieg/usa/d/dgb/netzwerk.pdf
  5. ↑ http://www.rolf-goessner.de/FriedensJournal-Interview%203-07.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.schoah.org/schoah/kristallnacht.htm#%281%29
personal data
SURNAME Stuckmann, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, association functionary and peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2008
Place of death Neu-Isenburg