Lorenz Grimoni

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Lorenz Grimoni and Kant in the Parliamentary Society (2014)

Lorenz Grimoni (born April 19, 1939 in Freystadt in West Prussia ) is a German Protestant pastor in Duisburg.

Life

Grimon's parents came from Königsberg (Prussia) . He was baptized in the castle church . When the East Prussian operation of the Red Army began in 1945 , his mother fled to Schleswig-Holstein with four children . After graduating from high school in Bad Godesberg, Grimoni studied Protestant theology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Philipps-Universität Marburg and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster . After the vicariate he became pastor in 1970 at the Marienkirche in Duisburg-Altstadt and at the Salvatorkirche (Duisburg) . He dedicated himself to child and youth work and set up a telephone counseling for Duisburg, Mülheim and Oberhausen . With a Catholic brother, he operated the closure of three air raid shelters , which were used to accommodate the homeless . Even hard of hearing since childhood , he took over pastoral care for the hard of hearing and deaf from 1972 with monthly church services and excursions. He often helped authorities and companies with sign language . He initiated the founding of the Duisburg commandery of the Order of St. John . In the citizens' initiative Altstadt-West, he devoted himself to urban improvements. In 2014 he donated his collection of Duisburg archives to the Duisburg City Archives . Retired in 2002, he managed the City of Königsberg Museum on a voluntary basis, succeeding his father Erich Grimoni . At the time it was owned by the Königsberg Foundation and was dissolved in 2016. The holdings came to the East Prussian State Museum , Lüneburg. He is the deputy chairman of the city ​​community of Königsberg and sits on the board of trustees of the Königsberg Foundation. On the 200th anniversary of Immanuel Kant's death , in 2004 he organized an internationally acclaimed exhibition at the Museum Stadt Königsberg. The patron was Peer Steinbrück . In 2011, Grimoni hosted the annual conference of the student historians' working group .

Grimoni has three children with his wife Hiltrud, who comes from Silesia.

Publications

  • with Walter Daugsch : Museum City of Königsberg in Duisburg . Leer 1998, ISBN 3-7921-0472-5 .
  • with Martina Will: Immanuel Kant. Knowledge - Freedom - Peace . Husum 2004, ISBN 978-3898761574 .
  • with Wolfram Eggeling: Käthe Kollwitz - Königsberg Years. Influences and Effects . Husum 2007, ISBN 978-3865301000 .
  • with Steffen Dietsch: Kant the European. Europeans on Kant . Husum, 2010, ISBN 978-3898765046 .
  • with Erhard Neuhoff: Stettin, Danzig and Königsberg . Communications of the Geographical and Geological Society for the Ruhr Area, issue 25.
  • with Erhard Neuhoff: The Polish Baltic coast between Stettin and Danzig . Communications of the Geographical and Geological Society for the Ruhr Area, issue 26.
  • with Erhard Neuhoff: Helsinki and St. Petersburg . Communications from the Geographical and Geological Society for the Ruhr Area, Issue 27 (2004–2007).

Honors

literature

  • Eberhard Neumann-Redlin von Meding : On his 80th birthday on April 19, 2019: Lorenz Grimoni - "A Duisburg institution" . Königsberger Bürgerbrief 93 (2019), pp. 61–63.

Web links

Commons : Lorenz Grimoni  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ duisburg.de
  2. ↑ a b Fabienne Piepiora: Museum Königsberg goodbye . ( derwesten.de [accessed on August 3, 2017]).
  3. ↑ rp-online.de
personal data
SURNAME Grimoni, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Freystadt in West Prussia