Heinrich Fink

Heinrich Fink ( born March 31, 1935 in Korntal, now in the territory of the Ukrainian district Sarata ) is a German Protestant theologian and former university lecturer. He was 1990-1992 president of the Humboldt University of Berlin and was released as an unofficial member of the former East German secret police. 1998-2001 he was a member of parliament of the PDS, since 2003 he is Chairman of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime - Federation of anti-fascists and anti-fascists.

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Life

Youth

Fink comes from a German Pietist Bessarabia farming family, who had been resettled in the Second World War in the annexed part of Poland and was finally wound up in Glienicke ( at Ziesar ) in Brandenburg. By 1954, Fink attended school in Glienicke, Brandenburg ( Havel ) and Genthin, was active in the Youth Community and joined the Free German Youth.

Scientific career

From 1954 to 1960 Fink studied Protestant theology at the Humboldt -Universität zu Berlin (HU ), and also attended courses at the universities of Berlin (West). 1958/59, he interrupted his studies for a job as a secretary of the Protestant Student Community and worked from 1958 in the Weissensee district work with. After a Vicariate 1960/1961 in Halle an der Saale Fink was a research assistant at the HU.

With the thesis " justification of the function of practical theology at Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher. An investigation on the basis of his practical- theological lectures " Fink received his doctorate in 1966 at the HU. In 1978 there habilitation in Practical Theology after years of delayed presentation of a B- Promotion " Karl Barth and the motion for a Free Germany in Switzerland ", which had nothing to do with practical theology. On September 1, 1979, he was appointed to the HU Professor of Practical Theology. The section line union appealed the procedure in which no expert representatives of practical theology was involved, how vain against the appointment Fink Professor of Practical theologian an objection. In 1980 he became Dean of the Faculty of Theology, 1990 he was elected Rector of the HU. Peer Pasternack described this choice as a free option. 1992 dismissed him, the university because of its role as informer of national security.

Society and politics

1961 Fink was a member of the Christian Peace Conference (CFRP ) and sat their state -level DDR Regional Committee before temporarily. Several service and lecture tours have taken him here in the West.

From 1978 to 1990 he was a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Berlin- Brandenburg ( eastern region). Fink was before the turn and peaceful revolution in the GDR as a state compliant and loyal, but then joined in the demonstrations against the SED regime. On 8 October 1989, he was injured during an attack by forces of the People's Police and the State Security on the demonstrators in front of Berlin Berlin Gethsemane Church, he then worked for the relevant inquiry commission of the City Council with. In December 1989, he led the round table of the HU. 1992 Fink was co-founder of the " Committee for Justice". From 1998 to 2001 he was a member of the German Bundestag for the PDS. Since November 2003 he has been Chairman of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime - Federation of anti-fascists and anti-fascists.

Unofficial employee of the State Security

On June 11, 1968, the Ministry of State Security campaigned ( Stasi) Fink as unofficial staff (IM). His IM file documents the Anwerbegespräch on 11 June 1968 contains spy reports, including handwritten drafted an in -person form, review, evidence of orders, cash awards, gifts, regular meeting with his commanding officer to the last meeting report dated October 7, 1989. He told the State Security about his trips abroad. The Stasi praised the fact that he made ​​" by itself attention to individuals ' and their information have also made from " Beichtgeheimnissen and confidential pastoral conversations available ". Fink was performed at the party responsible for spying on the churches MfS Department XX / 4 under the code name " Heiner " with the code XV/1827/68.

At the direction of the Chief of Department, Colonel Wiegand, prompted Finks enforcement officer Klaus Rossberg the destruction of large parts of the Act of IM " Heiner " on December 6, 1989.

After 1991 parts of Finks in 1989 were emerged largely torn Stasi file and then the Gauck authority referred to him as IN, without notice dismissed him in 1992 the Berlin cult Senator an appointment at the HU. Fink claimed that he had been unwittingly siphoned off from the MfS as the source. The Stasi officers Wiegand and Rossberg said the same in the subsequent proceedings before the Regional Labor Court of Berlin, their statements assessed the court as completely unbelievable, abstruse and as a deliberate obfuscation and pointed Fink's 1993 lawsuit against the dismissal from. Fink further attempts to defend himself in court against the allegation IM- 1997 failed ultimately before the Federal Court. After finding the dishes Fink had been " knowingly worked for the Stasi " as IM.

2005 were approximately 600 sheets of acts of IM file to be reconstructed. The bag with Schipseln contained the dismembered acts of unofficial employee ( IM) with the code name " Heiner " - performed by the Department XX / 4 of the Ministry of State Security. And a " summary sheet " noted behind the pseudonym the name " Dr. theol. Heinrich Fink " - with the correct date of birth, home address and place of work. Fink himself claimed that at his apartment several " bugs " were attached and his conversations were tapped day and night from the apartment above.

Award

Fink was awarded in December 2013 Human Rights Prize of the Society for the Protection of civil rights and human dignity.

Private

Fink is married to the theologian Ilsegret Fink and father of three children.

Publications

Author

• As the Humboldt University was turned. Memories of the first freely elected rector, Ossietzky, Hannover, 2013, ISBN 978-3-9808137-0-9.
• On the history of the Theological Faculty of Berlin. In: Scientific Journal of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Social Sciences series. Vol 34 (1985 ), H. 7, pp. 517-628.

Publisher

• With Cornelia Kerth and VVN Association of Anti- Fascists: Objection! Anti-fascist positions for the politics of history. PapyRossa, Cologne 2011.
• With Carl -Jürgen Kaltenborn and Dieter Kraft: Dietrich Bonhoeffer - endangered heritage in endangered world: Contributions to the debate about his work. Union, Berlin, 1987, ISBN 3-372-00074-9
• With Herbert trebs: Emil Fuchs. From Schleiermacher to Marx. Union, Berlin 1969.
• Stronger than the fear. The 6 million who found no savior. With a foreword by Emil Fuchs. Union, Berlin 1968
• With Palamede Borsari and Jessie Street: Première session du Conseil mondial de la paix. Berlin, 21-26 février 1951. Compte rendu et documents II 1951.