Albrecht-Joachim Boldt

Albrecht-Joachim Boldt (2015)

Albrecht-Joachim Boldt (born April 6, 1933 in Rostock ) is a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman. At the time of the change and peaceful revolution in the GDR in 1989/90 he was provost in Plau am See .

Life

Boldt attended the large city school Rostock and studied Protestant theology at the University of Rostock . From 1960, he was pastor of the parish Hanstorf / Heiligenhagen . In 1968 he came to the parish church of St. Marien (Plau am See) . Elected provost in 1980 , he played the leading role in Plau am See at the time of reunification. With Plaus Catholic pastor Klaus Rziha , he invited to a "conversation in turbulent times" in St. Mary's sacristy. Instead of the expected 40, 1,500 participants came, of whom only 1,000 fit into the church. Axel Tohtz , Plaus Mayor from 1990, called for free elections and freedom of expression . After the rally, most of the participants marched through the city on a demonstration.

In the following days a peace group was founded. He met weekly in the parish offices and discussed the demands made in the meeting. Demonstrations were organized in Plau and it was decided to participate in a rally in Lübz . The district council sat in Lübz . In the face of growing uncertainty and defamation, Boldt called for a political discussion. The first "round table" met on December 20, 1989 in the Plau town hall. Participants included Jürgen Andrees and the former mayor Manfred Kruse .

“Our city church was the place where, in a democracy from below, the citizens of our city met and articulated for the first time. The parish constantly influenced the observance of the proportionality of the funds and gave the Plau Peace Circle a home. The idea and invitation to this event came from Probst Boldt. Mr. Probst Boldt was unanimously entrusted to lead the discussion for this first event.

What do we see ourselves as? We are a Plauer initiative group in which representatives of all parties, the churches and initiatives and groups of citizens of the city are represented (currently LDPD, DBD, SED, CDU, SDP, NDPD, New Forum, pastors of the Protestant and Catholic Church, parish council, Peace Circle Plau). Our initiative discusses the current social problems of the functioning and development of our city from the point of view of the various political forces with the aim of reaching a common consensus on the important questions in the lives of our citizens.

We recommend the council and other social partners with direct responsibility as representatives of the public in order to make decisions more broadly sustainable. The aim is that the phase of political uncertainty, which will certainly drag on until local elections, has as little negative impact as possible on the lives of our people and the functioning of our city. "

- minutes of the meeting

The round table stopped its work after the local elections in May 1990. Walter Kempowski visited Boldt in 1991. They were unanimous in their assessment of the time of reunification: “It was a dangerous Klanner run.” Kempowski reports on the two-hour conversation in Somnia. Diary 1991 (Munich 2008). Boldt retired in 1993. He has four children with his wife, a doctor from Masuria .

See also

• List of pastors in Plau (Mecklenburg)
• Christians and Churches in the GDR
• Real socialism

literature

• Albrecht-Joachim Boldt: turning point in the church - as provost in Plau . Mein Mecklenburg IV / 2015, pp. 18-20.

Web links

• Literature on Albrecht-Joachim Boldt in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Albrecht-Joachim Boldt in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Remembrance of the turning point (Schweriner Volkszeitung, October 26, 2009)
2. ↑ Results of the elections to the district councils of the districts and municipal councils of the independent cities since 1990
3. ↑ Klannerlauf (Rostock Sailing)