Horsta Krum

Portrait of Horsta Krum 2011

Horsta Krum , b. Malinowski , also: Horsta Malinowski-Krum (* 1941 in Torgau ) is a former Evangelical Reformed pastor .

Life

Horsta Malinowski was born in Torgau . After studying Protestant theology , she was accepted into the service of the French Church (Huguenot congregation) in West Berlin in 1970 . In the field of church history , she dealt with the fate of the Huguenots . For eleven years she was a member of the church leadership of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg . She was pastor of the French Church and chairwoman of the Reformed Moderamens in Berlin (West) from 1979 to 1990. She was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin . Krum was a member of the Christian Peace Conference (CFK). In 1986 she gave a lecture on the "Language of Peace" at a joint seminar between the CFK and the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR in Bad Saarow . She maintained contacts with left-wing church groups such as the Unterwegskreis and the Weißensee working group and with church parishes that worked on a corporate basis in the CFK.

Contacts with the GDR State Security

After 1990 it became known that she and her then husband, Pastor Ulrich Krum , had regular talks with the high-ranking employee of the Potsdam District Council, Johannes Klein, who worked as an unofficial employee (IM) with the code name Freidank for the Ministry of State Security had. The Stasi conducted this process under the name IM Helena . During these conversations, the Krum couple had passed on internal church matters for years. It was also about the spying of people like the American theologian Barbara Green. The consistory of the Berlin-Brandenburg Church accused Horsta Krum, after inspecting the Stasi files, of " violating the required official secrecy in long-term conspiratorial discussions with a state representative of the GDR about church processes ." In January 1994, she and her husband became out of this Reason suspended from parish service by the church leadership of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg. Ulrich Krum received a disciplinary punishment in 1998 for his conspiratorial discussions with official representatives of the GDR. The two are now divorced.

Stage of life in France

In 1995, Krum applied for her dismissal from the service of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg, thus avoiding disciplinary proceedings . She was employed by the Reformed Church in France and pastorated in Lyon for ten years .

In 2005 she received her diploma as a sophrologist .

As part of the 200-year memorial events for the battle of Jena and Auerstedt , she accepted the invitation from the Thuringian town of Kapellendorf to take part in the events with a group from the municipality of Saint-Savin .

Krum lectures and writes in left-wing newspapers. As part of the Historical Commission of Lyon, she works on the time of National Socialism and the Cold War. She belongs to the Lyon interreligious group "Children of Abraham", in which Jews , Muslims and Christians of various denominations work for peace. She works in prison as part of the Cimade (organization for the protection of the rights of foreigners in France); She also works theoretically on AIDS , and as a pastor and sophrologist, she works with AIDS patients.

Horsta Krum is the mother of two daughters. She is a member of the Die Linke party .

Fonts

• Les Huguenots Bonifas, Aimé. Paris: Ed. de Paris, 2000
• The last year of the GDR. Berlin: Social Science Forum, 1994
• France on the cross. Berlin: Wichern-Verl., 1993
• Prussia's adopted children. Berlin: arani, 1985

As a co-author

• The Waldensians . The struggle of Christians for a new church, in: Dietrich Schirmer (Ed.)
• This is how my post-war period began. Men and women tell from May 45, ed. by Peter Heilmann (therein: Torgau an der Elbe), Wichern Berlin 1985
• Church-critical movements. Workbook for Religious Education Vol. 1, Stuttgart 1985, 84–98 [2]
• Traces of truth. GDR heritage worth preserving. Experiences, considerations, findings, documents. Edited by an independent group of authors "Experienced as a contemporary witness" (in it: Klaus D. - an almost banal story; Gabi D. from Saxony-Anhalt), GNN Schkeuditz 2005, ISBN 3-89819-208-3
• From church and world. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Hanfried Müller , ed. Dieter Kraft, (therein Jean Lasserre : Memories of Dietrich Bonhoeffer ), self-published Berlin 2006, p. 187, ISBN 3-00-018328-0

literature

• Wulf Röhnert: The West Berlin pastor Horsta Krum and the Stasi: from the "IM Helena" file; Selection from the Stasi reports seized in Potsdam , Zentralredaktion des Evang. Press Service, 1994
• Hubertus Knabe : The discreet charm of the GDR. Stasi and western media. Propylaen, Berlin 2001. Paperback edition: ISBN 3-548-36389-X , pp. 273-275

Web links

• Literature by and about Horsta Krum in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Olav Teichert: The Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin. Investigation of the control of SEW by the SED ; kassel university press GmbH, 2010, p. 295.
2. ↑ epd documentation 16/1994: from the file IM "Helena". The West Berlin pastor Horsta Krum and the Stasi .
3. ↑ Two German pastor accused of spying - Horsta and Ulrich Krum . Article in Christian Century on May 11, 1994, accessed October 31, 2009.
4. ^ Message from the consistory, quoted from: Article in the Berliner Zeitung of January 10, 1994, accessed on January 12, 2013
5. ↑ Karsten Kammholz: A servant of the Lord - and a messenger of the Stasi. "You shall not abuse the name of the Lord your God," is the Second Commandment. Ulrich Krum was a pastor in Berlin-Neukölln. But who was he really serving? Because he violated his church's duty of confidentiality and passed on confidential information to the GDR. In: welt.de. December 5, 2007, accessed April 20, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Saint Savin (France) visiting Kapellendorf on 14./15. October  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ https://www.dielinke-tempelhof-schoeneberg.de/aktuelles/
8. ↑ Erich Wenneker:  VALDES, founder of the Waldensian reform movement. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 12, Bautz, Herzberg 1997, ISBN 3-88309-068-9 , Sp. 1029-1035.