Wilhelm Heienbrok

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Wilhelm Heienbrok , Sr. (* December 10, 1855 in Jöllenbeck near Bielefeld ; † March 2, 1949 in Gadderbaum ) was a Protestant German missionary .

Life

Heienbrok came from a linen and silk weaver family from Jöllenbeck. His youth there were shaped by his membership in the Evangelical Men and Youth Association , in whose trombone choir he played slide trombone.

In the years 1877 to 1883 he completed a missionary training in Wuppertal-Barmen at the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft and in 1883 was sent to the Batak on the Indonesian island of Sumatra as a Protestant missionary. After his return from Indonesia, he was Friedrich von Bodelschwingh's right-hand man in charge of the "Dankort" office in the Bethel institutions until he retired in 1926.

As a musician and church singer, he belonged to the revival movement around Pastor Volkening. The revival movement was initiated by Wilhelm Heienbrok, sen. also in his works witnesses and testimonials from Minden-Ravensberg (two volumes 1931) and God's Saat. Images from the revival in Ravensberger Land (Bethel near Bielefeld 1928) are described.

On December 31, 1885, Heienbrok married Anna Wüster on Sumatra, who came from a family in Wuppertal. She died on November 8, 1946 in Bethel. From this marriage there were twelve children - three daughters and nine sons. After two sons died as children, two sons died in World War I and one son drowned on a sailing excursion on the Greifswalder Bodden .

In 1938, the now 82-year-old Heienbrok was targeted by the Nazi judiciary. In proceedings under the Dodge Act before the notorious Dortmund Special Court , he was charged with letters critical of the regime, sending "Goebbels letters" and treatises on prisoner abuse. The proceedings were dropped in July 1938.

The professional legacy was followed by the first-born son Friedrich Wilhelm Heienbrok, who worked as a religion teacher in Bielefeld and in Berlin-Dahlem at the Arndt Gymnasium .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel card No. 156 in the archive of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft
  2. ↑ Memories of the youth in Wilhelm Heienbrok: Memories from the club life in Jöllenbeck. In: BETH-EL, Views from God's House in God's World, Vol. 20, No. 12, December 1928, pp. 322-330
  3. ↑ Dankort: The institutionalization of public relations. In: www.bethel-historisch.de. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Monika Minninger: Politically and religiously persecuted in the city and district of Bielefeld , p. 55. In: Joachim Meynert, Arno Klönne (ed.): Displaced history. Persecution and extermination in East Westphalia 1933-1945 . AJZ Bielefeld 1986

Web links

Fonts

  • God's seed. Pictures from the revival in Ravensberger Land , defeat of the Bethel institution, Bethel near Bielefeld, undated
  • Witnesses and testimonies from Minden-Ravensberg. Newly performed by W. Heienbrok sen. , Volume 1, Bethel Publishing House, 1931 (2nd edition)
  • Witnesses and testimonies from Minden-Ravensberg. Newly performed by W. Heienbrok sen. , Volume 2, Bethel Publishing House, 1931 (2nd edition)
  • [Introduction and editing] 10 sermons by JH Volkening, the witness to God in Ravensberg , Bethel publishing house, 1933
personal data
SURNAME Heienbrok, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German missionary
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Jöllenbeck near Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1949
Place of death Gadderbaum