Julius hull

Julius Rumpf (born July 17, 1874 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 23, 1948 ) was a German Protestant pastor who was part of the church resistance at the time of the National Socialist regime in Germany.

Life

Rumpf grew up in a family that attracted attention because of their democratic, liberal and tolerant sentiments (father Ernst Rumpf , President of the Senate in Frankfurt). He was ordained on March 3, 1902 , worked in various Hessian parishes and in 1921 became pastor in the Wiesbaden market church . After Adolf Hitler's appointment as Reich Chancellor, Rumpf confessed to a group of Protestant churchmen who wanted to defend themselves against the fact that the Protestant Church in Germany was brought into line. He therefore joined the Pastors' Emergency League in autumn 1933 , of which he was manager in Nassau from April 1934. In 1936 he took over the chairmanship of the State Brotherhood Council, which made him head of the Confessing Church of Hesse-Nassau , the official church, which was dominated by the German Christians , was followed by dismissal with a salary freeze and, from August 1, 1939, forced retirement. The Gestapo expelled him from Hessen. After being "unwelcome" first in Aschaffenburg and then in Marburg , he lived in Heidelberg from 1941 on . There, too, in 1943 he was forbidden from holding proxy services. After the war he made himself available to help build the Evangelical Church as far as he could. In 1946/47 he resigned from all offices because of his heart disease. He was married to Emmy (nee Passavant) since 1904. The couple had five sons, of whom the 2nd son " perished " in a facility for the mentally handicapped in 1941 , the 3rd son died in Russia in the same year. In memory of Julius Rumpf, the Martin Niemöller Foundation has awarded the “Julius Rumpf Prize”, donated by Ingrid and Günther Rumpf, since 2000 ; in 2010 it was endowed with 10,000 euros. Until 2008 the prize was awarded with 10,000 DM, then 7,500 € annually, since then every two years.

Prize winners and their laudators

• 2016 Refugee Aid Working Group in Wetzlar
• 2014 International Initiative Hochfeld in Duisburg, laudation by Jens Geier , MEP
• 2012 Youth project Mittendrin in Neuruppin, laudation by Anetta Kahane from the Amadeu Antonio Foundation
• 2010 Campaign Holidays from War by the Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy in Cologne (20,000 children from the Balkans and the Middle East have been invited since 1995, and 1,200 young Palestinians and Israelis since 2000), laudation by Andreas Zumach
• 2008 Medical Refugee Solidarity Initiative in Hanover , from laudation Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Margot Käßmann
• 2007 Women's right is human right (FIM) in Frankfurt am Main
• 2006 AMAL initiative - Help for those affected by right-wing violence in Görlitz , laudation by Achim Exner
• 2005 Civil courage campaign in Pirna , laudation by Sebastian Krumbiegel
• 2004 Treatment center for torture victims in Ulm , laudation by Rupert Neudeck
• 2003 Together, network for democracy and cosmopolitanism in Saxony-Anhalt , laudation by Reinhard Höppner
• 2002 Network Saxony against right-wing extremism, violence and xenophobia, laudation by Rita Süssmuth
• 2001 Refugee Council Brandenburg, laudation by Wolfgang Thierse
• 2000 Ev. Joachimsthal parish with its youth music project BAFF ("Bands on Solid Feet"), laudation by Renan Demirkan

literature

• Hermann Otto Geißler: Julius Rumpf, his life and work as pastor and chairman of the state brotherhood council of the Confessing Church in Hesse and Nassau , in the yearbook of the Hessian Church History Association (JHKV) 60 (2009), pp. 79-100

Web links

• Martin Niemöller Foundation with award winners and a short biography of Rumpf
• Website of the Diakonie Hessen Foundation with information about the Julius Rumpf Prize, the Foundation Advisory Board and previous winners