Hein (sen.), Johann Frederik/Friedrich (Wilm)1 * Wupperthal ?, 1826 ?, † Richtersfeld, 6.11.1901. Foto Strassberger, p. 71 2 Hein Tagebücher übersetzt in Deutsche: BRMG 1864:90-94. BRMG 1854:280-282. Ausführlicher Bericht "Der Katechet von Richtersfeld" BRMG 1852:81-95. Vergißmeinnicht 1893 S. 158 am 16.10.1842 Fred Hein zu Kookfontein von getauft S.117 am 20.02.1844 Fred. Hein zum Katecheten eingsetzt S. 161 am 29.10.1856 Fred. Hein übernimmt die Schule in Eben-Ezer Frederik Hein war 1849 24 Jahre alt, d.h. geb. 1825, Nationalgehülfe am Orangerivier als Teil der Gemeinde Kommagas. S. 131 Hein, vor seiner Taufe nun noch mit dem Vornamen Willem, schreibt nach fast einem Jahr bei Budler im Haushalt in Wupperthal und nach gezielter Ausbildung einen Brief im August 1842 an die RMS: "Des Morgens nach dem Gottesdienst müssen wir schreiben oder rechnen, oder Bibelsprüche lernen, und wenn geschellt wird, dann gehen wir nach de r Schule, um was nützlich ist und zur Seligkeit dient, zu lernen und zwar in Gemeinschaft mit den andern Kindern."3 Budler tauft Hein am 16.10.1842 in Cookfontein auf den Namen Frederik.4 Als Budler endgültig von Kommagas Anfang 1844 wegzieht, übergibt er Frederik Hein "einem kleinen Haufen Namaqua- und Bastardfamilien in Ugrabip, "etwa anderthalb Tagreisen von Kommagas entfernt.5 While Hein was catechist in Richtersfeld, this branch station was regularly visited by one of the RMS missionaries of the Small-Namaqualand. [Schröder of Kommaggas, Dönges of Concordia and the missionary of Steinkopf.]6 "Die Zahl der Leute soll sich auf 200 belaufen, ohne die Kinder; ich fand 95 Zuhörer, die anderen hatten den Zeitpunkt meiner Ankunft nicht genau gewußt." [Dönges about a visit to Richtersfeld in 1886.]7 "Die Arbeit des Katecheten ist eine schwierige. Weil seine Leute alle Nomaden sind und also weit im Felde zerstreut leben, so muß er sie dort aufsuchen, ihnen nachziehen, auch zeitweilig sich länger bei ihnen im Felde aufhalten, um ihnen Gottes Wort zu bringen. Findet er an einer Stelle mehr Leute bei einander wohnend, so wird dort schnell eine sogenannte Buschkirche aus etlichen Stangen und Baumzweigen hergerichtet, die denn doch wenigstens eineigen Schutz gegen Sonne, Kälte und Wind bietet."8 "Die Leute achten Frederik Hein als ihren Lehrer und herrscht zwischen ihnen und ihm ein vertrauensvolles Verhältnis. Die Glieder dieser Gemeinde sind im Verhältnis nicht die Aermsten hier im Lande, ja es sind wohlhabendere Leute in Richtersveld [sic], als wie wir sie zur Zeit hier in Kommaggas haben [...]"9 "Was die Selbständigkeit der kleinen Gemeinde betrifft, so habe ich den Eindruck bekommen, daß diese Leute den [sic] Gehalt für ihren Lehrer wohl aufbringen könnten, nur müssen sie dazu ordentlich angehalten werden. [...] Ihr Hauptwunsch ist aber der, den Frd. Hein zu behalten und ich bin auch fest davon überzeugt, daß derselbe nirgends so gut hinpasst wie dort, wo er eben ganz eingelebt und festgewurzelt ist."10 "Nationalgehilfe", ordained on 01.10.1893 in Richtersfeld Was baptized by Johann Friedrich Budler in 1842.11 ("Budler was ordained at Wupperthal and sent to work in Namaqualand. He worked at Koffiefontein and then at Komaggas. In 1844 Budler returned to Wupperthal."12 Budler had started a school for catechists in Steinkopf.13 According to a footnote in Strassberger "Hein`s father was a rich white farmer in the Roggeveld and his mother a Hottentot woman, Elsie"14 Father: a rich farmer of European descent who farmed in the Roggeveld near the Karresmountains. Mother: Elzie, who married Adrian Hein after the birth of Fredrik. They settled at the RMS Wupperthal Institure by 1840 and were baptized during the revival movement on the 03.07.1842.. RMS missionary Budler - who had the special task of recruiting and teach young boys as teachers when he was stationed in Wupperthal in 1840 - noticed the boy Fredrik who was looking after the sheep of his stepfather. Budler took the boy into his houshold and made him attend the local school. Additional to the normal school lessons, Budler taught 11 boys in the afternoon, amongst them Frederik. Budler placed so much confidence in him, that he made him look after the other pupils, when the missionary was not around. When Budler was ordered to Steinkopf in September 1842, he took Frederik with him. On 16 Octomber 1842 Frederik Hein was baptized by Budler in Steinkopf, and was renamed after Johann Friedrich Budler's first names. During his one and half years stay in Steinkopf and Komaggas, Budler trained Frederik together with two other boys. When Budler moved back to Wupperthal in 1844, he appointed the 17 year old Frederik on the 06.03.1844 as a catechist amongst nomadic "Bastard-Namaqua" north of Komaggas (Ugrabib, Noagas, Kama, Pada, Kauras, Hamtab, Annis, Kakas). (See handwritten diary of Fredrik Hein of this time). Gert Korobib - who had fled the Cape Province and lived as rich and respected farmer just north of the Northern boarder of the Cape which Komaggas formed - became the patron for Fredrik Hein's work. In July 1846 was stationed at his first settled post at the mouth of the Orangeriver amongst the "river people" who were using the area on both sides of the river as grazing fields. One of the leaders living here was Paul Links - pejoratively named "Biercapitain" by the missionaries because of his fondness for honey beer. Since Hein only spoke Cape-Dutch, he had to rely on a translator. He found a trustworthy one with the name Johannes Domrog. Hein used and taught Cape-Dutch in the school. When Knudsen passed over the Orange river in the middle of 1847, he left the first printed copies of the Gospel according to Luke for the use amongst the "river people". An intensive period of change started, Hein opened a baptism class and was overwhelmed by the eagerness of the people to disband their former habits and their wish to be baptized. He went to Steinkopf to request a missionary to come and baptize his converts. When RMS missionary Brecher came for the baptism in December 1847 he named the adjacent region, south of the Orange River, "Richtersfeld", in memory of the first RMS director Dr. Heinrich Richter. As Richtersfeld lay on the route between Namibia and the Cape, it was frequently visited by RMS missionaries on their way to one of the two destinations. The successful work of the young Hein, the dramatic changes amongst the people under which he lived and the notable number of baptisms Hein initiated, made him to become a respected colleague amongst the RMS missionaries the likes of Hahn and Kleinschmidt. In October 1848 the congregation at Richtersfeld was unofficially recognized within the RMS context, when two elders were appointed. However, it turned out that the first results of his committed work was soon afterwards interrupted when extreme draughts and the extension of the border of the Cape Province northwards up to the Orange River made his flock to move away from the river into Southern Namibia. Links people anticipated the settlement of colonist along the river and their forceful removal, as had already happened to them at the mouth of the river, and they fled to the North, with the effect that only very few people remained in the area of the congregation. To counteract the scattering of his congregation members he build a permanent house at a spot where the cultivation of corn fields were possible and only moved with the people during the rainy season in a wagon, which he had received from the RMS by 1851. An inspection visit by the Superintendent of the Cape RMS missionaries confirmed that Hein had a respected position amongst the people and found him "[...] in high spirits and hoping in the Lord". "In 1840 the Rev. Mr. Budler found the 14-year-old Frederik Hein in Wupperthal and soon he was one of his most diligent pupils. When Budler was sent to Steinkopf in September 1840, he took the boy with him.. Before Budler`s return to Wupperthal, he took the 17-year-old boy, whom he had been training in the meantime, to one of the outposts, Ugrabip, which was two day`s journey from Komaggas. The Cloetes lived at this outpost. Hein started a school with thirteen pupils. On Saturdays and Sundays he read to the adults from the Bible. Hein worked diligently and sometimes even made use of the sjambok. The people at Ugrabip still lived a nomadic life. They were constantly on the move, and Hen often travelled with them. Afterwards he worked among the Namas at the Orange River for a time when Captain Paul Links ruled over a trive of 650 people. Hein`s work was so successful here that Hugo Hahn was able tgo baptize some of them on 16 July 1848. A little later Kleinschmidt baptized twenty-two persons, who had been prepared for baptism by Hein. In 1851 Hein started work at Koeboes. In spite of the fact that the people lived in scattered areas, the work prospered. Soon, however, the influence of the copper-mines was also felt at Koeboes. Hein was forced to abandon his work in 1862. He was sent to Ebenhaezer and then to Amandelboom."15 "When the R.M.S. threatened to move Hein because of lack of funds, the Richersveld congregation promised to rally round and support its minister if only it could retain him."16 "In 1888 the congregation in the Richtersveld started building a church. Frederik Hein was ordained as the first coloured minister in South Africa when this church was inaugurated in 1893."17 VEM-card: Baptized by Budler 16.10.1842 Catechist 1844 School Eben Ezer 1856 Pastor in Richetersfeld 1893 Amandelboom (without year mentioned) married in 1849 to: Wimmer HEIN, Frederik, erster und ältester indigener Katechet in dem zu Kommaggas (Missionar SCHRÖDER) gehörenden Filial Richtersveld/Hereroland18 Auf der Durchreise in Richtung Kap halten Groß-Namaqualand Missionare auf Richtersfeld mehrere Tage Rast, z.B. Vollmer 1865 auf seiner Fahrt ins Kap. "Über F. Hein wünschen Sie meine Meinung zu hörn. (sic!) Mich über andere__ auszu___ ___, hier ich ängstlich. Wäre hier jemand, der ihr _____ sie?? berichtet hat, und hätte nicht ____ sie um meine Meinung gefragt, ich würde diese Arbeit gern ______ und gegübteren ?? Sinnen?? überlaßen. J. F. Hein ist ein Bastard; Sohn des Buren(s??), der durch seinen _______ ____ _____ dies Amandelbaumer Gemeinde ____ wollte, u. einer Hottentottin schon seit Jahren in der Ewigkeit. Als ich nach Wupperthal ____, war Hein ein ziemlich herangewachsener Junge??; er besuchte die Schule nur unregelmäßig. Er war Sch_______. Sein aufmerksames Wesen?? und die ____ ___chs seines ____tät, und ____ mit Gottes Hilfe, ihn führen zu können. Ich konnte nicht umhin, selbst gegen den Wunsch einiger Brüder, ihn zu mir zu nehmen und geregelt zu unterrichten. Unter meinen damaligen Schülern waren einige, die schärferen Verstand und _____ schneller Auffaßungsgaben _____; aber niemand hatte Hein's __sd_____; Er blieb bei _______ Sache, und ließ sich??, ein _____ zu ______, keine Mühe verdrießen. Ich hatte ihn gern bei den anderen Schülern, denn während meiner Abwesenheit wußte er sie ____ ___ Ordnung zu halten. Er wurde ihm einst schwer, Wuppertal zu verlassen und mich ins Namaqualand zu begleiten. Auf der Reise erhielt er Unterricht. Er ging damit nicht ganz geregelt und _______, doch ____ihnen?? diese Reiseschule gut. Er hörte, und sah, und lernte sich _______ und ___________, und ______. Auch offenbarte sich, und dies ist das Wichtigste, ____ ______, ___ den Herrn zu " DIESE SCHRIFT VON BUDLER IST SO VERDAMMT SCHWER ZU LESEN!!! Married: Elisabeth Hein, née Wimmer in 184919 (Her father was the LMS/RMS missionary Michael Wimmer who married the Khoekhoe woman Sabina, whose baptismal name was Susanna. 20) Children: * "Die Familie des Katecheten [Hein] besteht aus einer reichen Töchterschar, von denen etliche in der Schule helfen."21 * A daughter of Hein [no name given] was confirmed in 1885 during an inspection visit of RMS missionary Schröder in Richtersveld. * "The Rev. Mr. Meisenholl visited the Richtersveld which was served by the Rev. F. Hein's son. (in 1902)22 Frederik (Fred.) Hein scheint die Arbeit seines Vaters nach dessen Tod im Jahre 1901 direkt übernommen zu haben. Im JBRMG 1905:14 wird erwähnt, daß er seine Arbeit (regelmäßig Gottesdienst und Schule) "ohne Störung" getan habe und man im allgemeinen mit dem Erfolg zufrieden sein kann. "Zur Sakramentspendung kam Missionar Meisenholl herüber.23 [See 102.docx] Education: Other family members connected to RMG: "Unsere beiden besten, in selbständiger Arbeit bewährten Katecheten Fredrik Hein und Daniel Cloete im Herero-Land, leben ganz wie Europäer, sind aber auch vollig herausgenommen aus ihrer ehemaligen Familie und Verwandschaft. Der Missionar war ihr bester Freund und ihr nächster Verwandter."24 Fredrik (sic!) Hein is mentioned as a teacher, connected to Heinrich Pabst (Rietfontein 1888 - 1913), who also performed church services in Rietfontein (Baumann, p. 161). (Must be the same). Since Pabst went to Germany for vacation - after his wife died in Rietfontein on 20.07.1896 - Hein took over the station and worked there from 1897??, in the words of the mission society "zur Notdurft".25 Mission Stations: Ugrabip, from 1844 to 1846 Richtersfeld (Gobus or Koeboes), from 1846 to (at least) 1851 Koeboes, from 1851 to 1863 Ebenhaezer, from 1862 to Amandelboom, from to History with the RMG: Further reading: Menzel, p. 170-172.26 Pers.-Akte Frederik Hein B/cI 71 (0155/69 steht außerdem auf der pers. Karte) BRMG 1846, 91 Tagebuch Frederik Hein BRMG 1851, 355-356 Richtersfeld (Frederik Hein) - durchgesehen und eingearbeitet BRMG 1852, 81 Der Katechet von Richtersfeld (Frederik Hein) BRMG 1854, 282 Kein Titel genannt (Bezug Fredrik Hein) BRMG 1855, 280 Kein Titel genannt (Bezug Fredrik Hein) BRMG 1874, 246 Kein Titel genannt (Bezug Fredrik Hein) BRMG 1877, 203 Kein Titel genannt (Bezug Fredrik Hein) BRMG 1880, ?? Strassberger nennt keinen Titel, keine Seite (Bezug Fredrik Hein) BRMG 1881, 174 Strassberger nennt keinen Titel, keine Seite (Bezug Fredrik Hein) BRMG 1883, 170 Richtersfeld (Bezug Fredrik Hein) BRGM 1887, 35 Kein Titel genannt (Bezug Fredrik Hein) BRMG 1893, ?? Ordination von Fredrik Hein (war am 1.10.1893), Einweihung Kirche der Kirche in Koeboes Nachruf Frederik Hein, 72. Jahresberichte S. 15 Fotos: Foto Frau von Frederik Hein, Berichte 1887, S. 35 Foto Frederik Hein, Berichte 1887, S. 35 Foto Frederik Hein,VEM Nr. SW 4957-35 Diary "On the 20th February 1844, Rev. Mr. Budler took me from Komaggas to Ugrabip to the Kloetes, who are staying there, so that I would teach their children. I undertook the journey together with the Reverend Mr. Schmelen, who was on his way to catch fish at the sea. - On the 21th February we were at the Buffelo River (of Bontehoei). On the 22th February we reached the place of my destination; there I handed over my belongings to the wife of the old Gert Cloete (Corrabip??) for keeping it, while I went with the Reverend Mr. Schmelen to the sea, where the Reverend for catching fish; there we stayed for ten days. On the 4th March 1844 we returned back from the sea. On the 5th March we were at Ugrabip, where I settled down; but the Rev. Mr. Schmelen ...??, traveled back to Komaggas. On the 6th March 1844 I started with my work at Ugrabip, and I had 19 children in the school, with whom I started by singing a song, which went very bad??. After a prayer, I recited to them the Geloofsbeleidenis and the God's Laws en the Prayer of the hearts ("Our father"). After that I told them the History of the Bible, as far as it was possible. After having sung another song, I closed the School with a prayer. In the afternoon I continued School by reading with them and reciting a hymn to them. Again in the evening I had the boys in my waggon tent - where I stayed and in which I had the School - so that they would read. In the afternoons, before the lessons started, the boys also came to my tent. Some of them then learned to spell and write letters and others, who were already further, or who could read already, learned to write. On Saturdays in the evening the adults come to my tent, and I then read to them from the Bible. On Sundays in the morning and in the evenings: in the afternoon I teach classes. (sic!) This is who I normally proceed during the School classes and also in the reading classes: First: In the School singing and speaking of a prayer. Second: The Laws of God and the Confession articles and the "Our Father" are recitet. Third: Stories of the Bible are told. Fourth: Singing and then reading and spelling and letters are learned. Page 5 and 6 Fifth: Counting the numbers and say one's table. Sixth: Singing and closing the class with a prayer. Then my meal is brought which I receive from Gerd Cloete (Corbip??) without the assistance from anybody else. After ?? this the boys come to my tent to learn there. In the afternoon the program is as follows: First - reading, Second - singing, Third - hymn texts reciting, Fourth - with singing and prayer the School is closed. In the evening the boys come again to learn in my tent. Friday evening was used to repeat everything that was done with the children. In the beginning I spend most of my ?? time with reading. - On the 26th of March the housefather Gerd Cloete (together with another man) went to Komaggas ?? ?? ?? and he brought me also a letter of the 1 If no specific reference to a source is given in this file, all the personal data is taken from the card "Vereinigte Evangelische Mission - Archiv - Pers.-Nr. VII 8" 2 Strassberger 1969:71. In BRMG 1887:36 it is mentioned that the 2 photos were made available by RMS missionary Schröder. 3 DMB 1851 Nr. 16. 4 DMB 1851 Nr. 16. 5 DMB 1851 Nr. 16. 6 BRMG 1887:35. 7 BRMG 1887:39. 8 BRMG 1887:37. 9 BRMG 1887:38. 10 BRMG 1887:39. 11 VEM Karte: Frederik Hein. 12 Strassberger 1969:69. 13 Menzel 1978:57. 14 Strassberger 1969:77. 15 Strassberger 1969:71. 16 Strassberger 1969:72. 17 Strassberger 1969:72. 18 Altena 2001:454. 19 VEM Karte: Frederik Hein. 20 http://www.hist.umontreal.ca/GEHA/Elbourne_texte.doc 21 BRMG 1887:37. (According to Schröder, after a visit in Richtersfeld in 1885.). 22 Strassberger 1969:74. 23 JBRMG 1905:14. 24 BRMG 1887:38. 25 BRMG 1897:21. 26 Menzel 1978:170. --------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ 3/3 28.04.2021 3:06 C:\LOCG\Privat\EvangelistenProjekt\Hein Frederik.doc