Meinulf Barbers

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Meinulf Barbers (2012)

Meinulf Barbers (born September 15, 1937 in Düsseldorf ) is a German educator and coordinator in Christian-oriented youth and adult organizations as well as a sponsor of the Catholic youth organization Quickborn in the second half of the 20th century.

Professional background

Meinulf Barbers' parents, Josef and Maria Barbers, were both teachers . They had already met at the Quickborn in Düsseldorf and took part in the First German Quickborn Day at Rothenfels Castle .

After graduating from the Staatliche Görres-Gymnasium in his hometown (incl. Latinum , Graecum and Hebraicum ) in 1956, Barbers studied comparative religion , Catholic theology , German and Syriac at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität Bonn . In 1961 the first state examination took place. In 1963, Barbers was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD with Gustav Mensching . Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) and Benno von Wiese were among his teachers . In 1965 he married the master bookbinder Katharina Steiner. Katharina and Meinulf Barbers have four children and ten grandchildren.

Meinulf Barbers began his professional career in 1962 as a trainee lawyer at the State High School in Mülheim / Ruhr . From 1964 he worked as a teacher at the Stiftisches Humanistische Gymnasium Mönchengladbach , in 1974 he became director of studies and deputy head of the school . From 1976 he was headmaster at the newly emerging grammar school in Korschenbroich and was promoted to senior director there in 1982. Barbers retired in 2002.

engagement

Meinulf Barbers was active on the boards of the associations of Catholic religious teachers in the diocese of Aachen , in the Philology Association of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the district staff council for teachers at grammar schools, in the local school committee, etc. He worked on diocesan councils and in a commission for extracurricular youth work and youth education. He is a member of the CDU and was active there in various committees of the CDU and the Junge Union, as well as a representative of the party in communal bodies.

He was awarded the BDKJ's Golden Badge (1963), the Federal Cross of Merit (2003), certificates and badges of honor from the European Union , the CDA and the CDU.

His particular interest, however, is concentrated on working and shaping Christian-Catholic youth organizations. He became a group leader and city guide for the Quickborn youth organization in Düsseldorf (1951–1961). From 1952 to 1959 he was head of the Lower Rhine Gau and from 1957 to August 1962 chairman of the Quickborn boys' community (in the federal government).

Supported by his involvement in Quickborn, he works in various committees of the Federation of German Catholic Youth (BDKJ). Barbers played a major role in the re-emergence of Quickborn, which fell apart in the mid-1960s. From 1967 to 1992 he was the national spokesman for the Quickborn working group, the new organization of the old federal government from days of the youth movement. In this function he was a member of the castle ridge of Rothenfels Castle from 1967 to 1979. From 1992 to 2000 he was chairman of the Quickborn-Arbeitskreis e. V. Meinulf Barbers worked from 1971 to 1979 as deputy chairman of the Association of Friends of Rothenfels am Main and from 1979 to 2007 as its chairman. This registered association is the legal entity of Rothenfels Castle am Main, a large youth and adult education center and youth hostel.

For the conference “Quickborn and Heimgarten” of the working group Schlesische Jugend e. V. in Altenberg in 2011 he put together a photo exhibition “100 Years of Quickborn”. On this occasion he gave the lecture "Quickborn and Rothenfels Castle after 1945", which is one of the few sources that gives information about the post-war period of Quickborn.

Meinulf Barbers can be counted among the important leaders of the Quickborn movement. Without him, the second part of the 100-year history of this youth and adult association would be hard to imagine. His interest as an author is concentrated on the Quickborn, for which he recorded and handed down key events and facts. He can also be seen as one of the great initiators and promoters of the Quickborn organization after the Second World War . It is mainly thanks to his efforts that the Quickborn exists in its current form.

In January 2020 Meinulf Barbers, together with his wife Katharina and Wolfgang Funke ( Erkelenz ), was awarded the 7th Mönchengladbach Integration Prize for the Abrahamic Calendar Mönchengladbach, which the three have published annually since 2012.

Publications (in selection)

  • Tolerance from Sebastian Franck, Bonn 1964 (in the series: Studies on the general history of religion, New Series, Issue 4).
  • Articles “Quickborn” and “Rothenfels, Burg” in: Lexicon of Pedagogy, New Edition, Vol. 3, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1971.
  • Quickborn working group, in: Roman Pencil and Gertrud Casel: Lexicon of Church Youth Work, Munich 1985.
  • Quickborn working group, in: Youth of the Church - Handbook of Church Youth Work, Volume 4, ed. v. Günter Biemer and Werner Tzscheetzsch, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna, 1988.
  • Quickborn working group, in: Lothar Böhnisch, Hans Gängler, Thomas Rauschenbach (eds.): Handbook of youth associations, Weinheim and Munich 1991.
  • Der Bund Quickborn 1945–1965, in: Historical Youth Research - Yearbook of the Archives of the German Youth Movement, NF Volume 1/2004, Schwalbach 2006.
  • Theo Hespers, in: Witnesses for Christ - The German Martyrology of the 20th Century, edited by Helmut Moll on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference, Vol. II, 4th edition, Paderborn 2006.
  • Theo Hespers, in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Volume 30; Nordhausen 2009, pp. 592-598.
  • Rothenfels Castle as a pioneer of the liturgical reform of the Vatican, in: EB Adult Education, 3/2012.
  • Restoration or rethinking? The fate of the Bündische Jugendbewegung in Germany after 1945 - Using the example of Quickborn 1945 to 2011, in: Archive for Silesian Church History, Volume 70, 2012.
  • "Peace through the youth" - understanding between the world wars, in: Franz Stock and the way to Europe, Arnsberg 2012 as well as in the French edition of the catalog for the exhibition "Franz Stock and the way to Europe" from May 26th to August 26th 2012 in the Sauerland Museum Arnsberg:
  • “La paix par la jeunesse” - La rapprochement entre les deux guerres mondiales: in: Franz Stock et la voie vers l'Europa, Arnsberg 2012.
  • Various catalog articles in: Aufbruch der Jugend - German youth movement between self-determination and seduction, Nuremberg 2013 (catalog for the exhibition in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg from September 26, 2013 to January 19, 2014)
  • The Quickborn, Rothenfels Castle and the Liturgical Movement, in: Ewald Spieker (ed.): Kaplan Bernhard Poether (1909–1942), concentration camp priest of the Münster diocese, Münster 2014
  • Klemens Neumann (1873–1928) and his "Spielmann" - Hundred Years of "Quickborn = Lieder" / "Der Spielmann", in: Archive for Silesian Church History, Volume 72, Münster 2014

literature

  • Albrecht Busch and Ansgar Held: He gave the castle its present-day appearance. Meinulf Barbers. In: Association of Friends of Rothenfels Castle (ed.), Where we are guests and hosts. Rothenfals Castle - our castle for 100 years. Würzburg: Verl. Königshausen u. Neumann 2019, pp. 46–47.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see the detailed information in the Wikipedia article Quickborn working group , especially the time after 1945.
  2. ↑ see Quickborn working group .
  3. ↑ on the ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
  4. ↑ see CDU in Düsseldorf.
  5. ↑ see Quickborn working group .
  6. ↑ see Quickborn Bund; Young community in the Federation of German Catholic Youth, BDKJ.
  7. ↑ wz.de: Mönchengladbach 2020 Integration Prize with three winners , January 18, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Barbers, Meinulf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf