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Name
Heinrich Fink
Role
German Politician
Heinrich Fink (born 31 March 1935) is a German theologian, former university professor and politician (Die Linke). In 1991 Fink was dishonourably dismissed from the Humboldt University due to being a former informer for the communist secret police, the Stasi.
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. After the reunification of Germany, German academe was shocked to learn that had been a Stasi informer since 1968. After Fink's Stasi connections came to light, he was summarily fired. The decision to fire him was later upheld in German courts after he unsuccessfully sued his former employer.
Books
(2011) Einspruch! : antifaschistische Positionen zur Geschichtspolitik, with Cornelia Kerth and VVN-Bund der Antifaschisten VVN-BdA. Köln, PapyRossa.
(1992) Heinrich Fink : sich der Verantwortung stellen, with Bernhard Maleck. Berlin, Dietz.
(1992) Politische Kultur im vereinigten Deutschland : der Streit um Heinrich Fink, Rektor der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Berlin, Utopie kreativ.
(1991) Universität Leipzig Arbeitskreis Hochschulpolitische Öffentlichkeit. Heinrich Fink und der Umgang mit unserer Vergangenheit "eine ordinäre politische Massnahme", with Rudolf Bahro. Leipzig Arbeitskreis Hochschulpolitische Öffentlichkeit, 1991.
(1987) Dietrich Bonhoeffer--gefährdetes Erbe in bedrohter Welt : Beiträge zur Auseinandersetzung um sein Werk, with Carl-Jürgen Kaltenborn and Dieter Kraft. Berlin, Union Verlag, 1987.
(1985) Zur Geschichte der Theologischen Fakultät Berlins, with Heinrich Fink et al. Berlin, Humboldt-Universität.
(1978) Karl Barth und die Bewegung Freies Deutschland in der Schweiz. [S.l.], 1978. [Doctoral Dissertation.] Karl Barth und die Bewegung Freies Deutschland in der Schweiz : Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades doctor scientiae theologiae (Dr.sc.theol.), vorgelegt dem Senat des Wissenschaftlichen Rates der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Berlin, H. Fink [Selfpublisher], 1978.
(1969) Von Schleiermacher zu Marx, with Emil Fuchs and Herbert Trebs. Berlin, Union Verlag, 1969.
[(1968)] Stärker als die Angst; den 6 Millionen, die keinen Retter fanden. Berlin, Union Verlag.
1966 Begründung der Funktion der Praktischen Theologie bei Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher Eine Unters. anhand s. prakt.-theol. Vorlesgn. Berlin, [s.n.], 1966. (Berlin, Humboldt-U., Theol. F., Diss. v. 25. Jan. 1966.) [Master Dissertation.]
[(1951)] Première Session du Conseil mondial de la paix. Berlin, with Palamede Borsari and Jessie Street. 21-26 février 1951. Compte rendu et documents II. N.l., n.d.
