[1] Heinz Brunotte attended the Leibniz Reform Gymnasium in Hanover.
From 1919 to 1922 Brunotte studied Protestant Theology at the Universities of Marburg, Tübingen and Göttingen.
From it emerged in 1929 the Hanoverian Young Evangelical Conference, an amalgamation of predominantly younger theologians of the Hanoverian regional church, which saw itself as an alternative to the existing synodal groups.
In 1936 he was appointed to the church chancellery of the EKD, where he served as senior consistory until 1946.
In 2010 a biography of Jens Gundlach with the title Heinz Brunotte - Adaptation of the Gospel to the Nazi dictatorship was published, in which, in addition to Brunotte's appreciation, his involvement in the Nazi regime is examined.