Baldur Kirchner

Baldur Kirchner (2011)

Baldur Kirchner (born November 17, 1939 in Komotau ) is a freelance seminar leader for rhetoric, dialectics and ethics as well as honorary professor for business ethics at the Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences. He is a lecturer and author.

Life

After studying Catholic theology, philosophy and linguistics at the universities of East Berlin and Tübingen, Baldur Kirchner received his doctorate in 1968 on the prose work of Ivan Bunin. From 1968 to 1970 he was director of AKAD in Stuttgart. In 1972 he started his own business as a seminar leader; in the 1970s and 1980s he worked with Rupert Lay and Winfried Prost ("Frankfurter Institut"), among others . In the 1970s he completed further training in psychoanalysis with Balthasar Staehelin in Zurich.

In 1983 he and his wife opened the Ettenbeuren seminar house, a training center in the Günzburg district. There, under the name of "Kirchner Seminars", he continuously holds open seminars on the subjects of rhetoric, dialectics and ethics. His sons Alexander and Sebastian have also been working there since 1999.

Baldur Kirchner accompanied around 35,000 people in his seminars and lectures, mainly business executives. In “Privatissima” he has been offering coaching and sparring for top managers and family businesses since the 1970s. He also accompanies change processes in companies and associations. He is also an honorary professor at the Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences (HNU-Management-Forum) and is involved in the Salzburg-Tübingen rhetoric talks "satur".

He is the author of numerous books, some of which have been translated into Dutch, Indonesian and Lithuanian, and he has given several hundred lectures.

Baldur Kirchner is married and has three sons.

Publications

• Eighteen poems. Gorse, Zurich 1965
• Ivan Aleksejevič Bunin's view of life based on his prose work. Tübingen 1968 (dissertation).
• Dialectical rhetoric. Heyne, Munich 1974.
• Speaking in front of groups. Klett, Stuttgart 1980.
• Overcoming fear through faith. A guide to self-discovery for contemporary people. M&T Verlag, Zurich 1984.
• The turning point in the self. About the relationship to the divine in us. Moser, Schlattingen 1985
• Dialectics and ethics. Lead better with fairness and trust. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1991
• Benedict for managers. The spiritual foundations of leadership. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1994.
• Communicative competence in business and politics. In: Bertelsmann letters. June 1995.
• Feeling and leading. The manager between heart and mind. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1996.
• with Alexander Kirchner: rhetoric and credibility. Convince through a new culture of dialogue. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1999.
• with Alexander and Sebastian Kirchner: rhetoric for managers. Speech as an expression of personality. Gabler, Wiesbaden 2006.
• The contemplative way. Encounters with the personal inner world. K-Plus, Kammeltal 2008.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baldur Kirchner: Biography on the website of Kirchner Seminars

Web links

• Portrait of Baldur Kirchner at Kirchner Seminars
• Interview in the Stuttgarter Zeitung June 28, 2009
• Appointment as honorary professor