Working group of Christian journalists
The working group of Christian journalists e. V. (ACP) is a German association of evangelical Christians . This was founded in 1971 by Heinz Matthias and sees itself as an "independent, international association of people whose goal is an appropriate publication of biblical ways of thinking and acting and the representation of Christian values in the modern mass media". The Board of Trustees was founded in 1981.
structure
Board
- Chairman: Friedrich Wolf
- Honorary chairman, former chairman: Burkhard Krug († 2006)
- Vice-chairman:
- Wolfgang Furch
- Werner Lanz (Hannoversch Münden)
- Hagen Mukerjee
- Treasurer: Günther Wieber
- Secretary: Monika Brudlewsky
- former secretary: Michael Dietrich
Board of Trustees and Honorary Members:
- Otto von Habsburg (†)
- Jörg Knoblauch , entrepreneur, management consultant and bestselling author
- Philip Prince of Prussia (great-great-grandson of Wilhelm II), teacher and theologian
- Hans-Otto Weber , Honorary President (formerly President) VB German War Graves Welfare and former Vice-President of the Hessian State Parliament
Honorary Members:
- Siegfried Buchholz , formerly CEO of BASF Vienna, management consultant and book author
- Charles Duke , retired general D. and astronaut Apollo 16 (lunar expedition April 1972)
- Peter Habeler , alpinist and extreme mountaineer
- Legal advisor: Konrad Löw
deceased members:
- Eugene Bird , director of the Berlin-Spandau war crimes prison from 1964 to 1972 (†)
- Karl Holzamer , founding director of ZDF (†)
- Georg Wannagat , former President of the Federal Social Court D., Member of the Bundestag, Honorary Senator at the University of Kassel (†)
job
According to its own information, the ACP only works with volunteers and has around 500 members. These should come from all five continents, including more than ten European countries. In addition to the core association, there is a friendship group of the ACP , in which supporting members are organized. The association organizes congresses and meetings. The chairman of the ACP is Friedrich Wolf, who replaced Heinz Matthias, the founder of the company for many years, in 2019.
So far have been through the association
- 250 interviews with top politicians and comparable personalities,
- 160 TV programs from ARD and ZDF,
- 700 visits to broadcast houses as well
- 50 press seminars
carried out or helped shape.
Theology, Positions and Criticism
The association represents a conservative theology, which he describes as being true to the Bible . He also criticizes confessionalism and sees himself as open to members of different churches and Christian communities.
Jürgen Schnare, Weltanschauung representative of the Protestant regional church in Hanover, told the NDR broadcasting Lower Saxony 6 p.m. that the attitude towards lesbians and gays represented there was not that of his regional church. Christianity is interpreted very one-sidedly by the ACP. The Protestant Association for Religious and Ideological Issues in Berlin advises according to NDR distance to this group. She even thinks the name is misleading because serious Protestant and Catholic journalists are not represented there, according to the theologian Claudia Knepper from the central office.
Cooperations
The chairman Heinz Matthias spoke in 2008 at the federal party conference of the “ Party of Biblical Christians ” (PBC). Christian Wulff gave a greeting to the ACP in 2004 and gave a lecture for it in May 2010; which was critically reported in several media. Hansjörg Hemminger , the sect commissioner of the Evangelical Church of Württemberg , who considers the ACP to be a “splinter group on the extreme right of Protestantism”, described this as “politically questionable”. On June 6, 2010, the parliamentary group of the party Die Linke in the Lower Saxony state parliament presented an under the heading "What was the purpose of Prime Minister Christian Wulff with his appearance at the annual meeting of the Christian Publicists International Working Group ?" an "Urgent Request".
At the ACP conference on April 21 and 22, 2007 in Krelingen , Jörg Schönbohm said : "Germany needs a leading culture that incorporates the foundations of the Christian West." Other prominent guests in Krelingen were Ernst Albrecht , Eva Herman , Konrad Löw and Walter Weiblen . At the Bundestag meeting on June 27, 2008, Dieter Weirich , a. D. ( Deutsche Welle ) and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Journalists' Academy of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung as well as former Prime Minister. D. Ernst Albrecht participated. At the 53rd ACP press seminar on 15. – 16. April 2010 Günther Beckstein took part. At the 4th Midsummer reception of the ACP on July 2, 2011 in Kassel , Dieter Althaus was the star guest. On May 8, 2013, an ACP interview by Heinz Matthias with Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble was published.
literature
- Mission of God: Fundamentalist Christians in Germany , by Oda Lambrecht, Christian Baars, Ch. Links Verlag, 2013 - 256 pages, ISBN 9783861535126 , ISBN 9783861535669 , ISBN 978-3-86153-566-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Commitment to Evangelicals Christian Wulff: Arch Christian , by Claudia Keller, Der Tagesspiegel June 25, 2010
- ↑ The good connections of CDUPOLITIK Lower Saxony's Christian Democrats maintain good contact with evangelicals , taz February 15, 2014
- ↑ Stubborn hand A small group of religious zealots succeed again and again in harnessing politicians to their carts. , Der Spiegel November 26, 1984
- ↑ About us ( Memento from July 17th, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Board of Directors ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Board of Directors
- ↑ Board of Directors
- ↑ Board of Directors
- ↑ Media criticism: Sex and violence displaces Christianity ( memento from October 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Has moved a lot: ACP celebrates its 40th anniversary ( Memento from July 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Board of Directors
- ↑ Has moved a lot: ACP celebrates its 40th anniversary ( Memento from July 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Board of Trustees and honorary members ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Working Group of Christian Publicists: Creating Islands of Hope , idea.de, article from February 3, 2019.
- ↑ About us ( Memento from July 17th, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- Jump up to the presidential freestyle - evangelicals bask in Wulff's shine
- ↑ Claudia Keller: Christian Wulff: Catholic who kungelt with evangelicals. Zeit Online, June 25, 2010, accessed July 1, 2010 .
- ↑ What was the aim of Prime Minister Christian Wulff with his appearance at the annual conference of the International Christian Publicists Working Group? "Urgent inquiry" Die Linke 6 June 2010
- ↑ Three percent of Christians can change a society
- ↑ Germany: Schönbohm calls for a leading culture
- ↑ 4th Midsummer reception of the ACP ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ The 53rd ACP press seminar on 15.-16. April 2010 ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ 4th Midsummer reception of the ACP ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Wolfgang Schäuble: God does not let us out of his hand