Birth Year
1955
Birth Month
11
Birth Day
5
Death Year
1976
Death Month
10
Death Day
21
Description
Jürgen Hausmann verstarb als junger Mann von 22 Jahren in Teheran. Er soll damals auf der Rückreise über Land aus Indien nach Europa gewesen sein. Die deutsche Botschaft bat nach Rücksprache mit der Familie die Evangelische Gemeinde, ihn in Teheran zu bestatten. Pfarrer Bernbeck und Vikar Ingo Koll holten den Leichnam im Krankenhaus ab und setzten ihn mit Hilfe des Friedhofswärters Ali Agha bei.
The first Protestant Cemetery in Tehran was started in 1890 in the area of Akbarabad just south of Teheran. Because at that time nearly all Protestant Christians were foreigners the cemetery was set up under a committee of ambassadors from predominantly Protestant countries. As the city grew the cemetery became part of the city area.
Until the Iranian revolution the administration was done by American Presbyterian clergy. In 1995 the ambassadors asked the German Speaking Evangelical Congregation being the last international Protestant church in Teheran to take over this duty. Read More