Theodor Pinn

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Theodor Pinn (2nd from right) handing over the keys to the Stephanuskirche in Kiel by Wilhelm Halfmann (left), 1962

Theodor Pinn (born October 11, 1898 in Flensburg , † December 23, 1989 in Glücksburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor , resistance fighter against National Socialism and a member of the Confessing Church .

Life

Theodor Pinn grew up in Kiel and took part in the First World War as a soldier after passing his emergency maturity test in 1916. After 1918 he began studying Protestant theology in Kiel and Marburg , which he completed in 1923. He was ordained in 1925 and was then provincial vicar and pastor in Sandesneben .

In 1931 he became a pastor at the St. George and Mauritius Church in Flemhude . There he turned against the Tannenbergbund, which was very active in the district . From mid-1933 onwards he spoke out against the fact that the church in the National Socialist state was brought into line with the church and against the falsification of Christian teaching by the German Christian community . In October 1933 he became a member of the emergency and Association of Schleswig-Holstein pastors (NAG) and joined the Pastors to. Pinn was a staunch member of the Confessing Church during the National Socialist era. With his upright posture, he was imprisoned in 1935 and expelled from Schleswig-Holstein in 1937 by Gauleiter Lohse . Forcibly retired by the church, Pinn was briefly re-imprisoned before being drafted as a medic for military service in 1940.

After the liberation in 1945, Pinn returned to Kiel and successfully sued for the return of his community. From 1946 to 1948 he was again the municipality in Flemhude. From 1952 until his retirement in 1964, Pinn finally worked as a pastor in Kiel-Kroog and Kiel-Elmschenhagen at the Stephanuskirche, the construction of which he significantly influenced. Pinn was also co-initiator and "spiritual father" of the forest chapel "For Eternal Consolation" in Neuwühren , which was consecrated in 1953 and to which he remained connected after his retirement.

Last but not least, he is an important contemporary witness of the 20th century, whose records and memories are valuable sources and which have been published and evaluated accordingly. Excerpts from his war diary, which he had started as a schoolboy in 1914, were published; his memories of the time of National Socialism appeared several times as an essay and as a separate text.

Pinn was regarded as “an edgy man who stood by his convictions and also accepted the most severe personal disadvantages for them.” Even after his retirement he vigorously turned against - from his point of view - undesirable developments in the church. So he stormed z. B. At the beginning of the 1970s, the pulpit during political night prayers , which he strongly condemned. Theodor Pinn was married three times; from the first marriage he had four sons.

Awards

Fonts

  • (as editor :) Schilleratsen. A home booklet for the parish of Sandesnebener. Lauenburger Heimatverlag, Ratzeburg 1932 OCLC 249031502 .
  • Seven arrests. Memories of an ev.-luth. Pastors to the Nazi era in Schleswig-Holstein. Hansen, Preetz 1983 OCLC 72100044 .
  • Seven arrests. In: Wolfgang Prehn u. a. (Ed.): Time to take the narrow path. Witnesses report on the church struggle in Schleswig-Holstein , Lutherische Verlags-Gesellschaft, Kiel 1985, pp. 79-90 ISBN 3-87503-027-3 .

literature

  • Gerlind Lind: Theodor Friedrich Nicolai Pinn. A pastor from Flemhude in the church camp during the Nazi era . In: Flemhuder Hefte . No. 13/14 , 2003, ZDB -ID 2291724-X , p. 32-79 .
  • Martin Rackwitz: Between "hurray patriotism" and no school. A high school student from Kiel reports on the mobilization in August 1914 . In: Democratic History (=  publication of the advisory board for history ). tape 25 . Schleswig-Holsteinischer Geschichtsverlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-933862-48-8 , ISSN  0932-1632 , p. 147–176 ( beirat-fuer-geschichte.de [PDF; 1.3 MB ; accessed on October 14, 2017]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "A strong castle is our God" - in memory of Pastor Theodor Pinn . In: Message from the church community Flemhude Issue 173 September October November 2013, pp. 16–18; P. 17 (pdf, accessed October 23, 2017)
  2. ↑ "A strong castle is our God" - in memory of Pastor Theodor Pinn . In: Message from the church community Flemhude Issue 173 September October November 2013, pp. 16–18; P. 18 (pdf, accessed October 23, 2017)
  3. ^ Felicitas Glade: Ernst Bamberger - Wilhelm Hamkens. A friendship in Mittelholstein under the Nazi regime. Kreisverein Rendsburg for local history and history, Rendsburg 2000, p. 125 (Rendsburger Jahrbuch. Supplements Bd. 1) ISBN 3-89811-835-5 .
  4. ↑ a b c Martin Rackwitz: Between "Hurrapatriotismus" and no school. A high school student from Kiel reports on the mobilization in August 1914. In: Demokratische Geschichte 25 (2014), p. 176 (beirat-fuer-geschichte.de [PDF; 1.3 MB; accessed on October 14, 2017]).
  5. ↑ The history of the origins of the Stephanuskirche . kroog-unsere-heimat.de, accessed on October 11, 2017.
  6. ↑ From the syringe house to the forest chapel. waldkapelle-neuwuehren.de, accessed on October 14, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Pinn, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran pastor
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1989
Place of death Glücksburg