Alois Baumgartner

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Alois Baumgartner (April 2011)

Alois Baumgartner (born August 22, 1941 in Mühldorf am Inn ) is a German theologian . From 1994 until his retirement in 2006 he held a professorship for Christian social ethics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Life

Baumgartner studied philosophy , theology and economics in Munich and Münster . From 1976 he worked for five years as an assistant at the Institute for Moral Theology and Christian Social Ethics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with Joachim Giers and Wilhelm Korff . From 1982 to 1992 he was the managing director of the regional committee of Catholics in Bavaria . In 1992 he was appointed professor of Christian social teaching and general sociology of religion at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg , where he stayed for two years. From August 1994 Baumgartner was professor for Christian social ethics at the LMU Munich.

He is married and has two children.

In May 2007 Pope Benedict XVI. the meanwhile emeritus Baumgartner for his services to the Catholic Church and in particular for his promotion of the “readiness of the Catholic lay people to volunteer and share responsibility in their church” with the New Year's Eve . In 1988 Baumgartner was invested in the Papal Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

From 1998 to 2010 Baumgartner was also Chairman of the Diocesan Council of Catholics in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

Research focus

Alois Baumgartner's research focuses on fundamental questions of social ethics, the ethics of work and the economy, political ethics and family ethics.

Publications

  • Church and politics in the focus of the Second Vatican Council. In: Konrad Hilpert (Ed.): Generation Council. Contemporary witnesses report. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2013, ISBN 978-3-451-30916-8 , pp. 187-201.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Baumgartner's biography on the LMU website, accessed on August 9, 2012
  2. ↑ LMU press release on the award of the New Year's Eve to Alois Baumgartner , accessed on August 9, 2012
  3. ↑ Hans Jürgen Brandt: Jerusalem has friends. Munich and the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher, EOS 2010, page 117

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personal data
SURNAME Baumgartner, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühldorf am Inn