Hermann Höhn – Wikipedia

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Hermann Höhn (Born December 27, 1912 in Haspe, today district of Hagen, † October 22, 1997) was a German Evangelical pastor. His name is closely linked to the foundation and the successful development of the Ledder workshops.

Hermann Höhn grew up in his birthplace Haspe. [first] At the age of two he became a half orphan when his father died in the First World War. After the middle maturity, he started an apprenticeship as a freight forwarder. [2] In 1932 he registered for training at the Evangelical Diakonie Institute in Volmarstein. However, this was interrupted by the Reich Labor Service. In 1937 Höhn began training as a missionary for Brazil in the abroad in Ilsenburg. However, the seminar was closed by the Gestapo a year later. Höhn then worked as an accountant in a construction business. [2]

Hermann Höhn married Margarete Berger in 1939 before the outbreak of World War II. [2]

Combined for military service in 1940, Höhn took the war as a radio operator. [first] Wounded in 1944, he came to a hospital in Hungary and finally got into the US captivity at Cherbourg. In this prisoner of war, he met later theologians such as Jörg Zink and Alex Funke, who had set up a theological course there, who had a formative effect on Höhn. [2]

In October 1945, Höhn returned to his wife and four -year -old son in Holzhausen in the Siegen district. He is now reproducing his long desired path to the church service. He initially worked as a parish assistant in Niederdresselndorf and in 1947 a deacon training in Volmarstein with the exam. He was then employed as a deacon in Neubeckum. In 1953 he received the preacher position in Ladbergen. [2] When the interior of the Evangelical Church of Ladbergens was fundamentally renovated in 1955, it was also removed from the walls. “The heavenly poultry comes out of the church,” Höhn is said to have said. Whereby he took over the term “heavenly poultry” from the then Oberkirchenrat Brandes of the Westphalian Evangelical Church. [3]

In addition to his preaching, he attended lectures by the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Münster as guest listeners. In 1958 he took the second theological exam. [first] [2]

In the same year, the presbytery of the Evangelical parish of Ledde chose him as the parish priest. There he founded the trombone choir Ledde in 1959 [4] And achieved that a new, spacious parish hall was built in 1962. The renovation of the Ledder village church also fell into the first years of his term. Höhn also ensured a new church stalls and that historical paintings were uncovered in the choir. All of these renovation work ended with the installation of a new organ in 1969. [5] [first]

The pastor and the presbytery in 1969, when they enabled the local Catholics to celebrate their evening mass in the Ledder village church, made a sign of ecumenism. [5]

However, Pastor Höhns was a very important focus of the activities, however, the commitment to the disabled. So pastoral care for deaf people was an important concern at an early stage. For this purpose he learned the sign language. The church district of Tecklenburg called him in 1968 to their first synodal representative for Inner Mission (today Diakonie) with pastoral care for the deaf in the district of Tecklenburg. [5] He also reacted immediately when Lebenshilfe Tecklenburg was looking for a reliable carrier for a protective workshop in the same year. Pastor Höhn proposed to lease the village school that was empty at the time for this purpose from the municipality of Ledde. He brought Hans-Martin Lagemann to Ledde, who as managing director, together with three employees, set up the protective Ledde workshop with initially six disabled employees. In 1971 the Ledder workshops emerged from this, which developed from difficult beginnings to the largest diaconal workplace in the church district of Tecklenburg. This facility has become known far beyond the district of Tecklenburg as a lighthouse project practiced by a Christian charity against a mentality that is still widespread, which is considered to be a stigma. As a synodal officer, chairman of the board of trustees and from 1980 as deputy chairman of the supervisory board, Pastor Höhn remained closely linked to the Ledder workshops for a total of 20 years. [6] His commercial knowledge benefited him.

When he retired in 1978, Hermann Höhn moved to Tecklenburg with his wife. The clergyman was committed to the Ledder workshops for another ten years and was still an estimated preacher. [2] [first] Pastor i died two months before his 85th birthday. R. Hermann Höhn on October 22, 1997. [first]

  • N.n.: Pastor i. R. Hermann Höhn will be 75 years old on Sunday – his life was closest to the service . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung of December 24, 1987
  • -at-: The “father” of the Ledder workshops – Hermann Höhn died almost 85 years old . Obituary in: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung of October 25, 1997
  • Hans-Martin Lagemann: 100th birthday of Pastor Hermann Höhn on December 27th, 2012 . In: Community letter of the Evangelical parish of Tecklenburg. Ed. 16, autumn/winter 2012/13, p. 14 ( Online edition, PDF )
  1. ↑ a b c d It is f -at-: The “father” of the Ledder workshops-Hermann Höhn died almost 85-year-old . Obituary in: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from October 25, 1997
  2. ↑ a b c d It is f g N.n.: Pastor i. R. Hermann Höhn will be 75 years old on Sunday – his life was closest to the service . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from December 24, 1987
  3. ↑ Karin C. Puangkhorst: Heavenly poultry – Jörg Winkelströter as a guest at the women’s breakfast . In: Westfälische Nachrichten , Online version of June 27, 2012; accessed on December 1st, 2012
  4. ↑ History of the trombone choir Ledde in its website; accessed on December 1st, 2012
  5. ↑ a b c Hans-Martin Lagemann: 100th birthday of Pastor Hermann Höhn on December 27th, 2012 . In: Community letter of the Evangelical parish of Tecklenburg . Edition 16, autumn/winter 2012/13, p. 14
  6. ↑ N.n.: Change in the Supervisory Board of the Ledder Workshops – Carlheinz Rathjen re -elected as chairman . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from December 10, 1988
  7. ↑ N.n.: Great honor for “father” of the Ledder workshops – Pastor i. R. Hermann Höhn awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung. December 18, 1987.