Johannes Hinsenkamp

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Johannes Hinsenkamp (born April 8, 1870 in Holsterhausen ; † February 22, 1949 in Bonn ) was city ​​dean of Bonn's cathedral parish.

Life

Hinsenkamp spent his youth in his hometown Essen. He studied theology in Bonn and joined the Novesia student association . Hinsenkamp was 1896 in Cologne for priests ordained. He became a chaplain in Mönchengladbach and in 1900 took over the position of court chaplain to St. Andreas in Düsseldorf .

In 1907 he was appointed pastor in Ronsdorf , where he worked for 11 years. After a pastor's position in Mönchengladbach, he was appointed senior pastor of the Münsterkirche and city dean of Bonn in 1920.

In the same year, on the occasion of the patronage festival of the Münster parish, he founded the tradition of the Martin's parades , which soon spread throughout the Rhineland . In 1930 he left the glass windows of the crypt of Heinrich Campendonk make and the organ by Johann Klais expand so that it was among the largest in the Rhineland. He had extensive excavations carried out in the crypt of Bonn Minster for the first time.

Hinsenkamp was regarded as a recognized opponent of the National Socialist regime and protested in 1933 against the attacks by the Hitler Youth against young Catholics . On June 21, 1934, he protested in a public letter against the arson attack on the home of the Catholic New German Youth in Godesberg. During the Nazi rule, he hid fellow Jews in his apartment. There was also close connection between him, Joseph Roth and Konrad Adenauer .

Johannes Hinsenkamp died in Bonn in 1949.

Publications

  • 1929, The finds in the Bonn cathedral crypt in relation to the Eifel. In: Eifelvereinsblatt, 30th year, No. 1, January 1929

Appreciations and honors

literature

  • Neu, Heinrich: Johannes Hinsenkamp - A biographical sketch . Bonn and its minster, Bonn 1947
  • Josef Niesen : Bonn Personal Lexicon. Bouvier, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-416-03159-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bonn Saint Martin
  2. ↑ Horst-Pierre Bothien: 2,000 years of Bonn. Stages of the city's history. Bonn during the Nazi era. Persecution and Resistance, Rheinland-Verlag Köln 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1081-1 , p. 25
  3. ^ Heinz Finger , Reimund Haas, Hermann-Josef Scheidgen (ed.): Local Church and Universal Church in History. Cologne Church History between the Middle Ages and the Second Vatican Council. Ceremony for Norbert Trippen on his 75th birthday . Böhlau, Cologne 2011. ISBN 978-3-412-20801-1 . P. 344
  4. ↑ Dieter E. Kilian : Adenauer's forgotten savior. Major Fritz Schliebusch . Hartmann, Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-937885-44-5 , p. 186
  5. ↑ Karmantan
  6. ↑ Honorary Citizen of the City of Bonn ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bonn.de
  7. ^ Golden Book of the City of Bonn, page 2
  8. ↑ Hinsenkampstrasse in the Bonn street cadastre
personal data
SURNAME Hinsenkamp, ​​Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION City Dean of the Bonn Minster Parish
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1949
Place of death Bonn