August Dahl

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Karl August von Dahl

Karl-August von Dahl (born November 9, 1942 in Solingen ) is a German Protestant pastor . In the 1980s he was one of the organizers and one of the most important figures in the movement for peace and against the deployment of US nuclear missiles in the Hunsrück .

origin

Dahl comes from a Rhenish pastor family. Ancestors were under the names Dahlius or Dhalius, von Dahl and Dahl, pastors and pastors in the Rhineland and also on the Hunsrück.

School education and study

Dahl attended elementary school in Bacharach from 1949 to 1953 and from 1953 to 1962 the Stefan-George-Gymnasium Bingen am Rhein .

He studied theology from 1962 to 1968 in Mainz and Göttingen . After the first theological exam, he was sent at his own request by the church leadership in 1968/1969 to study for a year at the Dortmund Social Academy , which is supported by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and which is now a further training institute of the Technical University of Dortmund . He was the only theologian there among trade unionists, miners' leaders and administrators.

Professional career

August Dahl began as vicar and assistant preacher (pastor z. A.) in Essen- Altstadt, in the working-class district Segeroth of the northern quarter and in Essen-Kray . 1973-1976 he was pastor at the prison food. From 1976 to 1999 he was the pastor of the Protestant parishes of Bell and Leideneck . Since his retirement, August Dahl has lived with his wife near their last place of work on the Rothenbergerhof .

family

August Dahl is married to pastor Jutta Dahl , who worked with him in church work and for the peace initiative. In 1988, Jutta Dahl and Superintendent Werner Sanß received the Aachen Peace Prize, which was awarded for the first time, for her commitment to the peace movement .

voluntary work

From 1981 until the establishment of the upper level at the integrated comprehensive school , August Dahl was chairman of the upper level citizens' initiative for Kastellaun for twelve years . Even after his retirement , August Dahl continues to be active in pastoral care : from 1998 to 2018 he was Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe -Landespfarrer for the Rheinische Oberland , the Palatinate and the Saarland . The main focus of his work is the pastoral care of long-distance drivers and bikers ( motorcyclists ). After further training in psychology , gestalt therapy , gestalt theoretical psychotherapy , crisis intervention , he is involved in emergency pastoral care (SbE), marriage, family and youth counseling as well as addiction counseling.

He is a member of the Bell Voluntary Fire Brigade , active from 1986 to 2002, now passive in the age department.

In 1993 he is the founder of the Ecumenical Emergency Pastoral Care in Hunsrück and was the sole contact for the police, fire brigades and rescue services there for one year.

August Dahl is also politically active. From 1999 to 2009 he was a member of the Group Pro Rhein-Hunsrück the council of the Rhein-Hunsrück district of.

August Dahl is still an active member of the Hunsrück - Mosel - Nahe peace initiatives .

Peace movement

In the 1980s, Dahl, also known as "Raketenaugust", was active with his wife and others at the head of the peace movement against the stationing of US nuclear missiles on the Pydna . From 1976 to 1984 he gave Protestant religious instruction at the Realschule and at the Integrated Comprehensive School (IGS) Kastellaun . On April 8, 1987, a conviction for coercion at a sit-in in front of the Pydna resulted in a heavy fine. Ten years later, in 1997, the judgment was corrected and the verdict was acquitted by the BGH .

Ecumenism

As a pastor he also worked in the field of ecumenism. His long-term companion was the former Catholic pastor of Rheinböllen, Peter Lönarz.

Honors

Film portrait

Dahl played himself in the 2004 film Heimat 3 - Chronicle of a turning point .

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personal data
SURNAME Dahl, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES von Dahl, Karl-August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor and opponent of nuclear weapons
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen