Heinrich Fink

Heinrich Fink (right) at the vigil before the Berliner Dom, 6 August 1990

Heinrich Fink (born 31 March 1935) is a German theologian, university professor and politician (Die Linke).

Biography

Fink was born in Korntal, Bessarabia, Romania (today part of Sarata Raion) and comes from an impoverished Bessarabian peasant family. The family was resettled to Poland on the basis of Himmler's emigration policy. Heinrich Fink joined the Free German Youth (FDJ). From 1954 to 1960, he studied Protestant theology at Berlin's Humboldt University, where he set out his doctoral thesis on Karl Barth and his master dissertation on Friedrich Schleiermacher. From 1979 to 1992, he was Professor of Practical Theology at the Humboldt University, of which he was the principal from 1990 to 1992. He was a member of the Christian Peace Conference wherein he occasionally was East German Regional Committee Chairman, and he is Chairman of the Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime (Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes – Bund der Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten). From 1998 to 2001, Fink was a member of the German Bundestag for the Party of Democratic Socialism.

Fink has been involved in controversy involving the Ministry of State Security.[1]

Selected publications

Books

References

  1. Bundesministerium des Innern (Hrsg.): Verfassungsschutzbericht 2005. Berlin 2006, p. 172 (German)

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