Wolfgang E. Heinrichs

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Wolfgang E. Heinrichs (born May 11, 1956 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German historian and theologian . He is an adjunct professor for modern history at the historical seminar of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and teaches history and religion at the Freie Christian Gymnasium Düsseldorf . Heinrichs is also a pastor in the Association of Free Evangelical Churches .

Live and act

Heinrichs grew up in Solingen . He converted from the Catholic faith to the Free Evangelical Congregation. He studied history at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and Protestant theology at the Church University of Wuppertal / Bethel . Heinrichs did his doctorate in history on the subject of free churches as an expression of modernity , he wrote his habilitation on the subject of the image of the Jews in Protestantism . He also completed the theological seminar of the Free Evangelical Congregations in Ewersbach and - in addition to his professorship - became a pastor. After pastoring in Siegen-Weidenau and Calden , he was called to Wülfrath in August 1998 . He stayed here until August 2009, when he switched to school service and took on an apprenticeship at the private substitute school for the Free Christian High School in Düsseldorf .

In recognition of his services to the theology and history of the Free Evangelical Churches, he was awarded the “Neviandt Prize” on April 13, 2013.

His main research interests are recent social history (with a focus on church history), German-Jewish history in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of the free churches and regional history. As a result, Heinrichs' research projects include the situation of Jewish returnees after the Second World War in Wuppertal , the Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation , Free Church Research and the chronicle of the city of Wülfrath.

Heinrichs is a member of the advisory board of the Wuppertal department of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein .

Fonts (selection)

  • The development of club life in Wuppertal as an indicator for the early days . In: Karl-Hermann Beeck (Hrsg.): Gründerzeit. Attempt to determine the limit in Wuppertal . Cologne 1984, pp. 129-149.
  • The Protestant Free Churches as a religious form of organization of modernity - illustrated using the example of Wuppertal . In: Karl-Hermann Beeck (Hrsg.): Gründerzeit. Attempt to determine the limit in Wuppertal . Cologne 1984, pp. 393-452.
  • The development of a free church ecclesiology in the course of the confrontation between Protestantism and the modern world (illustrated using the example of the founder of an independent Lutheran congregation in Wuppertal, Ludwig Feldner) . In: Monthly Issues for Protestant Church History of the Rhineland 34, 1985, pp. 113–132.
  • Free churches - a religious form of organization of the modern age. Shown on the basis of the origin and first development of five free churches in the early industrialized Wuppertal. A contribution to the mentality and organizational history of the Wuppertal . Phil. Diss. Wuppertal 1987; published under the title: Free Churches - a modern church form. Formation and development of five free churches in Wuppertal . Cologne, Gießen and Wuppertal 1989; 2nd edition Gießen and Wuppertal 1990.
  • The image of the Jew in the Protestant mission to the Jews of the German Empire. Outlined in the utterances of “Saat auf Hope. Journal of the Church's Mission to Israel ” . In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 44, 1992, pp. 195–220.
  • Church history as an aspect of the history of mentality . In: Hermann de Buhr , Heinrich Küppers , Volkmar Wittmütz (eds.): The Bergische “a people of pointed reflection”. Region - school - mentality. Festschrift for Karl-Hermann Beeck . Wuppertal 1992, pp. 306-331.
  • A struggle for the freedom of the church. The preacher Gottfried Daniel Krummacher (1774–1834) and his struggle for freedom from the constitution and doctrine of the Reformed community (Wuppertal-) Elberfeld . In: Hermann de Buhr, Heinrich Küppers, Volkmar Wittmütz (eds.): Church in the field of tension between state and society. Festschrift for Günther van Norden . Cologne 1993, pp. 65-88.
  • (with Hermann de Buhr :) Price and wage series in Wuppertal in the 19th century. Attempt a graphical representation . In: Geschichte im Wuppertal 3, 1994, pp. 60–77.
  • About the emergence of the free churches in Wuppertal - motifs of a religious movement in the 19th century In: Geschichte im Wuppertal 3, 1994, pp. 86–97.
  • Peter Clarenbach - a modern entrepreneur? Jung-Stilling's vision of a modern entrepreneur and its historical role model: Peter Clarenbach (1661–1736) . In: Karl-Hermann Beeck (ed.): Bergische Unternehmergestalten im Umbruch zur Moderne (= Bergische Research , Vol. XXV), Neustadt / Aisch 1996, pp. 19–39, 231, 241–249, 266.
  • The image of Jews in Protestantism of the "German Empire". A contribution to the mentality history of the German bourgeoisie in the crisis of modernity. Lecture given at the 41st German Historians' Day in Munich in Section 41 “Young historians introduce themselves” (19th / 20th century), headed by Wolfgang Schieder . In: History as an Argument. Volume of reports from the 41st German Historians' Day in Munich, September 17-20 , 1996 , ed. on behalf of the Verband der Historiker Deutschlands eV, Munich 1997, pp. 292–297.
  • The image of Jews in Protestantism of the “German Empire” (1871–1918). A contribution to the mentality history of the German bourgeoisie in the crisis of modernity . In: Free Church Research 8, 1998, pp. 189–204.
  • Eve of a new reformation. The foundation of free evangelical congregations as an answer to the challenges of a changing society . In: Christsein Heute 106, No. 8, April 11, 1999, pp. 234–236.
  • Community of believers. Hermann Heinrichs Grafe and the establishment of the first Free Evangelical Congregation . In: Christsein Heute 106, No. 10, May 9, 1999, pp. 300–303.
  • The beginnings of the Dutch Reformed Church and its social commitment . In: Klaus von Brück, Heinrich Lüchtenborg (Ed.): 150 Years of the Dutch Reformed Congregation in Elberfeld . Wuppertal 2000, pp. 47-66.
  • The image of Jews in Protestantism of the German Empire. A contribution to the mentality history of the German bourgeoisie in the crisis of modernity . Cologne 2000, 2nd, arr. Edition Gießen 2004.
  • Free churches as an answer to the challenges of modern times. A historical consideration . In: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Gemeinde 6, 2001, pp. 236-254.
  • The awakening movement of the 19th century and its relation to modernity, explicated in the work of the two American evangelists Charles G. Finney and Dwight L. Moody . In: Theological Conversation 26, 2002, Heft 2, pp. 3–31.
  • The attitude of Protestantism towards the Jews during the German Empire (1871–1918) as an indicator of bourgeois mentality in the crisis of modernity . In: Monthly Issues for Evangelical Church History of the Rhineland 52, 2003, pp. 133–156.
  • The Beginnings of the Inland Mission . In: The Inland Mission. History, present and goals , Witten 2004, pp. 8–16.
  • Hermann Heinrich Grafe and his time . In: Lebenszeichen , pp. 13–26.
  • (with Erhard Michel and Michael Schröder :) Visionaries and pastors. A conversation about the "founding fathers" of the Free Evangelical Churches . In: Christsein Heute 111, No. 10, 2004, pp. 8–12.
  • “Forward” in work, with Church and Fatherland. The evangelical-social workers' movement in Wuppertal and its program . In: Lena Lybæk, Konrad Raiser , Stefanie Schardien (eds.): Community of churches and social responsibility. The dignity of the other and the right to think differently. Festschrift for Professor Dr. Erich Geldbach . Münster 2004 (= Ecumenical Studies , Vol. 30), pp. 271–300.
  • (with Beatrix Burghoff :) Lyrical pedagogy - The processing of educated middle-class morality in the poetry of Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglios . In: Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann, Hella-Sabrina Lange (Hrsg.): Culture and bourgeois lifestyle in the 19th century. The Zuccalmaglios . Grevenbroich 2004, pp. 128-140.
  • Christians and Jews today: Remember - Rethink - Repent . In: Theological Conversation 29, 2005, Issue 3, pp. 91–113.
  • "Savior and Corruptor". Free Church views on Jews at the beginning of the 20th and 19th centuries . In: Free Church Research 15, 2005/06, pp. 18–44.
  • The continuity of anti-Semitic thinking, demonstrated using evangelical positions at the beginning of the National Socialist “seizure of power” and in the German Empire . In: Jörg Hentzschel-Fröhlings, Guido Wärme and Florian Speer (eds.): Society. Region. Politics. Festschrift for Hermann de Buhr, Heinrich Küppers and Volkmar Wittmütz . Norderstedt 2006, pp. 77-92.
  • Julius Köbner and his relationship to Judaism . In: Erich Geldbach u. a. (Ed.): Freedom of religion . Berlin 2006, pp. 93-102.
  • Aspects of the understanding of the roles of men and women in society and the community . In: Wilfrid Haubeck, Wolfgang Heinrichs (Ed.): Pastors. Aspects on a current topic , Witten 2008, pp. 73–124.
  • The changing role of women. About the change in the understanding of the roles of the sexes in the church in the context of social processes from the early modern era to today . In: Peter Schmidtsiefer, Birgit Siekmann (Ed.): History as uncertainty . Nordhausen 2008, pp. 141-208.
  • Jews as ideal bearers of hope and salvation in Protestantism of the 18th and 19th centuries . In: Irene A. Diekmann, Elke-Vera Kotowski (eds.): Beloved enemy. Hated friend. Anti-Semitism and Philosemitism Past and Present. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Julius H. Schoeps (= New Contributions to Intellectual History. Vol. 7). Berlin 2009, pp. 213-231.
  • Church and Judaism from a free church perspective . In: Catholica 64 (2010), pp. 191-211.
  • "Savior and Corruptor". Free Church views on Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries . In: Daniel Heinz (ed.): Free churches and Jews in the “Third Reich”. Instrumentalized history of salvation, anti-Semitic prejudices and suppressed guilt . Göttingen 2011, pp. 13–34.
  • with Hartmut Nolte: Wülfrath: The sixties. Sutton, Erfurt 2013.
  • Martin Luther and the Jews. In: Matei Chihaia / Georg Eckert: Colossal miniatures. Festschrift for Gerrit Walther , Münster 2018, pp. 171–181.
Editorships
  • with Wolfgang Dietrich u. a .: An act of conscience. Memories of Hermann Heinrich Grafe (= History and Theology of the Free Evangelical Congregations , Vol. 1), Witten 1988.
  • with Wolfgang Dietrich u. a .: An act of conscience. Documents on the early history of the free evangelical communities (= history and theology of the free evangelical communities , vol. 2), Witten 1988.
  • with Hermann de Buhr: Forms of the course of secular crises. Shocks to economic, social, cultural and political structures in late antiquity, the late Middle Ages and in modern times (= topics and problems of history. Workbooks and sources for the college level ), Frankfurt am Main 1992.
  • with Hartmut Nolte: archive pictures Wülfrath . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2000, ISBN 3-89702-240-0 .
  • with Wilfrid Haubeck and Michael Schröder: Signs of life. The diaries of Hermann Heinrich Grafes in excerpts . Wuppertal / Witten 2004.
  • with Hartmut Nolte: Lexicon on Wülfrath church history . Nordhausen 2008.
  • with Hartmut Nolte: Wülfrath - Pictures through the ages .
  • Co-editor and editor of the series “Theologische Impulse”, Vol. 1, Witten 2000, 31 volumes published by 2018.
  • Co-editor of the Lexicon for Theology and Congregation , R. Brockhaus Verlag.

Web links

Web links to Heinrichs' works:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Looking forward to a new task. In: Rheinische Post from July 18, 2009.
  2. ↑ See press release .
  3. ^ Board of the BGV, accessed March 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Heinrichs, Wolfgang E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen