Like many others, Andreas came to practical humanism by studying theology. He became a controversial advocate of a world view that does not require a “higher being” or reference to the hereafter for its justification and work. <\/p>\n\n
When the Freireligi\u00f6se Landesgemeinde W\u00fcrttemberg acquired its own house in Stuttgart city center in 1997, Andreas Henschel, who had come from Berlin, was also hired as the new “pastor”. As a man with a wide range of cultural interests, Andreas subsequently developed the house in Stuttgart into a cultural and ideological center. In terms of ideology, he accompanied and shaped the Freireligi\u00f6se Gemeinde’s path towards practical humanism and the Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg regional association of the Humanist Association of Germany. <\/p>\n\n
In addition to looking after members and his work as a celebratory speaker, it was important to Andreas to support the Young Humanists in W\u00fcrttemberg and the association of young people at a national level. Without Andreas, the Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg Humanists would not be where they are today. <\/p>\n\n
In addition to his work as Managing Director in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, Andreas has been involved nationwide, for example as Vice President of the Humanist Academy for many years and most recently as a board member of the HVD Federal Association.<\/p>\n\n
Andreas was torn from our community by a serious illness. We mourn with his family, especially with his partner of many years, and with all humanist-minded people in our Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg regional association. The Federal Executive Board is deeply grateful for Andreas Henschel’s diverse and committed work in our association. We will miss Andreas very much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Sunday, October 31, 2021, our friend, colleague and comrade-in-arms Andreas Henschel passed away at the age of 65 after a serious illness. Andreas was committed to humanism for decades, for over 20 years he was managing director of the Humanisten Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg K.d.\u00f6.R, and for several years he was a member of the board of the Humanistischer Verband Deutschlands \u2013 Bundesverband. With his passing, we have lost a passionate campaigner for a more humane world worth living in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":41314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74845,"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74844\/revisions\/74845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}