Wilhelm Horkel

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Wilhelm Horkel (born December 3, 1909 in Augsburg , † July 29, 2012 in Munich ) was a German Protestant pastor , writer and poet .

Life

Wilhelm Horkel, son of the merchant Walter Horkel, who worked in Starnberg , and Johanna, née Moser, graduated from high school near St. Anna in Augsburg, subsequently studied Protestant theology , philosophy , church music and literature at the universities of Erlangen , Tübingen and Goettingen . After his ordination , Wilhelm Horkel was initially employed as pastor in Neu-Ulm , and from 1940 in Dietersdorf . He worked there until 1952, with a war-related interruption from 1942 to 1945. Wilhelm Horkel then took over the pastor's position in Lindau . Most recently he worked in Munich St.-Matthäus from 1968 .

Wilhelm Horkel was married to Käte, nee Bazlen. He died in Munich in 2012 at the age of 102.

Wilhelm Horkel, who worked for many years in church magazines and developed a wealth of lecturing activities at adult education centers, academies and conferences, emerged with literary works in the areas of religious poetry, essays , pastoral care, anthologies and parapsychology .

Publications (selection)

  • Message from over there. Recent psychic experiences. Neubau-Verlag, Munich 1949.
  • The swallow. Kaufmann, Lahr / Baden 1950.
  • Spirit and Spirits - On the Problem of Spiritism. 2nd Edition. Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart / Berlin 1969.
  • Dreams are not foams. Experience and knowledge from our time. 1st edition. Schauenburg, Lahr (Black Forest) 1974.
  • On the streets of the world. Twenty stories. Schauenburg, Lahr (Black Forest) 1978.
  • The Ulm Minster - a cycle of poems. 3. Edition. Schauenburg, Lahr (Black Forest) 1978.
  • I'm standing at your crib here, oh Jesus, you my life - Christmas story according to Luke 2, 1–20, a Christmas story and 2 Christmas poems. 1st edition. Christian publishing house, Constance 1983.
  • Message from over there? Parapsychology and Christian Faith. 6th revised edition. The candlestick Reichl, St. Goar 1987.
  • as editor: As far as the German tongue sounds. Germany in the mirror of poetry from a thousand years. Türmer Verlag, Berg am Starnberger See 1987.
  • In honor of Luther - narrative poems about Luther and the Reformation. 9th edition. Freimund-Verlag, Neuendettelsau 2008.
  • Going into life with Him ... - Poems. Freimund-Verlag, Neuendettelsau 2010.
  • Time and eternity. Freimund-Verlag, Neuendettelsau 2010.

literature

  • Otto Freiherr von Taube (ed.): Light of the world. A collection of poems. Christian Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1946, p. 262.
  • August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who, Volume 16. Arani, Berlin 1970, ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 536.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pastor Wilhelm Horkel has died in the online edition of the Schwabach parish newsletter, October / November 2012; Retrieved November 20, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Horkel, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 2012
Place of death Munich