Heinrich Fink is a German theologian, university professor

Professor

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 and politician (Die Linke).

Biography

Fink comes from an impoverished Bessarabia

Bessarabia

Bessarabia is a historical term for the geographic region in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west....

n peasant family. The family was resettled to Poland on the basis of Himmler

Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and the Minister of the Interior from 1943, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo...

's emigration policy. Heinrich Fink joined the Freie Deutsche Jugend ("Free German Youth"). From 1954 to 1960, he studied Protestant theology at Berlin

Berlin

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's Humboldt University, where he set out his doctoral thesis. Since 1979, he has been Professor of Practical Theology at the Humboldt University, of which he was the principal from 1990 to 1992. He is a member of the Christlichen Friedenskonferenz ("Christian Peace Conference") wherein he has occasionally been East German Regional Committee Chairman, and he is Chairman of the Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime

Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime

The Society of People Persecuted by the Nazi Regime – Federation of Anti-Fascists is a political organization founded in 1947....

 (Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes – Bund der Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten). From 1998 to 2001, Fink was a member of the German Bundestag

Bundestag

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 for the Party of Democratic Socialism.

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

External links

• Berliner Zeitung
  Berliner Zeitung
  The Berliner Zeitung, founded in 1945, is a German center-left daily newspaper based in Berlin, published by Berliner Verlag. It is the only East German paper to achieve national prominence since unification. In 2003, the Berliner was Berlin's largest subscription newspaper—the weekend...
  
  (16. Juni 2005): "Der Denunziant", Fink bestreitet Tätigkeit für die Stasi