... B U T W H O W A S
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W E I N G A R T N E R ... ?
... born in Stettin, today a city in
Western Poland, on May 17th 1930.
He grew up in the Ruhr Area and, during the Second World War, in Hamburg-Hamm - until a night of bombing in summer 1943 ("Operation Gomorrha") when he and his family left the crowded basement of their burning apartment house at the very last moment ... soon afterwards, their whole neighborhood didn´t exist anymore.
After the Second World War he learned to play organ and studied theology and church music ... but who was U WEINGARTNER ...?
... after the studies he and his wife start a family in England. At first he is engaged as a Reverend for seamen in London where he is sitting at Dietrich Bonhoeffer´s former desk.
Then he changes to the pastorate of the open-minded German Lutheran community in BRADFORD. In this time he is by chance ship´s chaplain during three weeks at the height of summer 1965 - with his new ZEISS IKON CONTINA Ia ...
... after seven years of great plenty in the United Kingdom, the family of five comes back to the Ruhr where he is working as Reverend, police chaplain and teacher for religion over the following 30 years ... U. Weingartner and others connect the previously strictly separate churches in his borough by joint congregation festivals, services and common help for EL PROGRESO , demonstrate together with gypsies for their rights as refugees, found the charity for psychosocial help BARKE (= boat) and the local telephone counseling service - further activities include his community work with active help of his wife, church conferences and community group tours near and far (Moscow) as well as his local Lions Club.
Many years later his wife passed away in the year 2006, he left the BARKE and RECKLINGHAUSEN in 2010 ...
... since 2010, he lived together with his second wife in EASTWESTPHALIA LIP
and died on November 4th 2018 ...