Reinhard Leue

Reinhard Leue (born July 4, 1929 in Breslau ; † December 1, 2012 ) was a German Protestant theologian , publicist , author and chronicler . He worked for the Protestant Church for 40 years - as pastor, superintendent and from 1987 as church director of the diaconal institution in Rothenburg / Upper Lusatia . With his retirement , Reinhard Leue became more journalistic and published numerous books and articles.

Life

Reinhard Leue grew up in his native city of Breslau. Due to the war, he came to Leipzig as a refugee in 1945 , where he graduated from high school in 1947. He studied from 1947 to 1952 Protestant theology in Leipzig and Berlin and graduated 1952/1953 the seminary in Lückendorf , followed by the Vicariate in Riesa , where he on November 1, 1953 ordained was.

From January 1, 1954, Leue worked as a pastor: initially for the Trinity Church in Dresden - Johannstadt , from 1964 to 1973 for the Christ Church in Görlitz - Rauschwalde . From 1973 he was superintendent in the Schleusingen church district ( Thuringia ), moved to Rothenburg / Oberlausitz in 1987 and headed what is now Martinshof Rothenburg Diakoniewerk there until his retirement in 1994 . Leue got involved in the action atonement .

Grave cross for Reinhard Leue on the cemetery wall of the cemetery in Rothenburg / Oberlausitz

Leue wrote mainly about theological and contemporary history in newspapers. According to his own statement from 2010, Reinhard Leue has published around 1,000 articles in daily newspapers, church newspapers, magazines and books as of 1994.

In 2006, at the age of 77, he appeared with his first own book. This and the following books were produced as self-publications by the service provider Engelsdorfer Verlag ; the manuscripts were cared for by Holger Zürch on Leue's behalf .

Leue felt closely connected to his native Silesia throughout his life , and reconciliation between Poland and Germany was a matter close to his heart. Two of his books are published in German and in Polish .

Reinhard Leue had been married to the pediatrician Johanna Leue, nee Schille, since 1958. The couple has three children.

Leue has lived in Rothenburg / Oberlausitz since 1987, which is also where his final resting place is.

Works

• Rhapsody of a summer. Dresden novella . Self-published 2012, without ISBN
• Farewell without returning. A story about German-Polish history / Pożegnanie bez powrotu. Opowieść na temat historii polsko-niemieckiej . Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-86268-426-7
• Plea for the letter . Reinhard Leue on his correspondence with people from contemporary history, so u. a. with Thomas Mann , Theodor Heuss , Martin Luther King , Lothar Kreyssig , Richard von Weizsäcker , Avi Primor , Johannes Rau and Werner Krusche . Contained in (pp. 358–408): Schlesische Memoiren, Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Horst GW Gleiss , published by Reinhard Leue, Rosenheim (Upper Bavaria) 2010, ISBN 978-3-921060-09-4
• What it's all about. Poetry and prose for Advent and Christmas . Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-86901-801-0
• My pastor life in the GDR. A look back at four decades in the service of the Evangelical Church . Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86901-518-7
• On the way between Russia and America. Adventurous journeys by a GDR citizen between 1945 and 1999 . Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86901-431-9
• Waypoints. Encounters with people of the 20th century who were important to me . Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86901-195-0
• My Silesian childhood in Wroclaw. 26 personal flashbacks . Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86703-943-7
• A new beginning together - Nowy pocza̜tek. A German-Polish encounter in the no-man's time of May 1945 . In German and Polish. Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86703-731-0
• Go to the new life. Easter stories from our days . Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86703-324-4
• God comes into the world. Christmas stories from our days . Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-86703-022-9
• The Christmas letter and other stories . Rothenburg (Oberlausitz) 1992, without ISBN

as well as author and / or chronicler of:

• Released people. Forced camp and Jewish ghetto Zoar / Martinshof in Rothenburg 1941/42 . Published on pp. 135–153 in the Yearbook for Silesian Church History No. 83, 2004 ( ISSN  0075-2762 ) - also published as a special print brochure (A5 format)
• The bitter years of 1941/42 . In: 100 Years of Martinshof Rothenburg 1898 - 1998 (pp. 31–35), published by the Martinshof Brothers and Sisters, Martinshof Rothenburg Diakoniewerk . Rothenburg / Oberlausitz 1998 (p. 31–35)
• Two sisters on the Neisse - article with a historical-chronic background about Sänitz and Steinbach (Rothenburg / OL) . Published twice: a) pp. 59–64 in Memorized Heritage. Studies on the Silesian and Upper Lusatian Church History , Volume 8, Festschrift for Christian-Erdmann Schott. Edited by Dietrich Meyer, Verein für Schlesische Kirchengeschichte eV, Herrnhut 2002, ISBN 3980795519 and b) pp. 165–168 in Oberlausitzer Hausbuch 2001 , Bautzen 2002, ISBN 3929091887

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhard Leue in the catalog of the German National Library
• Pastor Leue from Rothenburg has passed away , Lausitzer Rundschau online, December 4, 2012, accessed on December 31, 2019
• Obituary notice , accessed December 31, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://pfarrerbuch.de/sachsen/person/154430184 , accessed on February 11, 2020
2. ↑ Pavla Langer: Alumni in portrait: My life was a fulfilled pastor's life. , Reinhard Leue portrait in the alumni magazine of the University of Leipzig, online at zv.uni-leipzig.de as a PDF file, one page
3. ↑ Service and hens for the church district birthday in inSüdthüringen.de , accessed on November 3, 2014
4. ^ Statement in the autobiographical information on page 358 in: Schlesische Memoiren, Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Horst GW Gleiss, edited by Reinhard Leue, Rosenheim (Oberbayern) 2010 ( ISBN 978-3-921060-09-4 )
5. ↑ Johanna Leue (* 1927) also appeared in journalism: She was the editor and co-author of the publication Ehrenamt im Sozialismus - Pfarrfrauen report on their life in the GDR from 2004, ISBN 978-3-9808891-2-4 . The publication belongs to the holdings of the German National Library
6. ↑ http://d-nb.info/970878052
7. ↑ DNB 966374630
8. ↑ DNB 01641182X