Homage to a Broken Man: The Life of J. Heinrich Arnold

Heinrich (Heini) Arnold in our days, was a self-absorbed individual who wanted to gain sole leadership of the Bruderhof. His father and founder of the Bruderhof did not want him to become the leader and appointed his son-in-law Hans Zumpe to take over the leadership. This created a lot of friction between the leadership of this group, which lead to the temporary exclusion of Heini. On his return Heini plotted his revenge against Hans Zumpe and the rest of the Bruderhof leadership. When the Bruderhof expanded to the USA and Heini was sent to be in charge of the US branch he plotted the destruction of Primavera which he despised. He and his new American members then were able to dissolve that branch and expelled more than 50% of the members and banished them forever without any financial help. This was criminal but Heini did not care he was to self-absorbed, he elevated himself to semi deity, appointed himself to Bishop ship and brooked no opposition. For a more detailed rebuttal to this book read Johannes Zimmermann's review: Homage to a broken Man. Johannes Zimmermann was born into the Bruderhof November 1939 and new every person who joined from 1920 to 1960 except for Eberhard Arnold and his sister Else von Hollander. Contact: [email protected]