Bashir Ahmad Dultz

Schech Bashir Ahmad Dultz (* 1935 in Königsberg as Joachim Dultz ) is a German Muslim religious functionary and spiritual leader of a Sufi community. Generally speaking, he can only beaddressedas Shekh Bashir .

youth

He was born in 1935, the oldest of six siblings. His father Alfred (Ahmad after joining Islam in the Islamic Center Hamburg ) was a commercial clerk and then an officer, his mother Elsa also a commercial clerk and housewife.

After the evacuation of East Prussia , the family experienced a long escape via the Ukraine , Poland , Central Germany, the Czech Republic and the Bavarian Forest . In 1947 the family settled in Hamburg . Bashir Ahmad Dultz became a member of Islam in 1950 and became a member of the Islamic Community in Hamburg. 1951/1952 he was a co-founder of the German Muslim League , Hamburg.

Years in Libya

After his school days, an apprenticeship as a freight forwarder, attending a business school and an evening university, Dultz went to Libya for 30 years , where he lived as a Bedouin for years . In 1957 he married an Arab Bedouin and was officially accepted into her tribe loyal to the king. He has eight children, three of whom are adopted orphans.

1955 to 1958 Dultz completed a degree in Islam at the first university in Libya. In 1958 he received an honorary doctorate (Ph.Dhc) from the “International Academy Canada” for “efforts to promote understanding between people of different religions and races”. Both privately and within the framework of a Sufi order, he acted as the host of many Muslim representatives from home and abroad.

For two years he worked in the financial administration of a western military administration in a province of Libya, after which he worked in the financial administration of the embassy of the United States of America.

In 1979 Dultz was imprisoned for tribal and regional political as well as religious reasons (Sufi opposition). In 1981 he was finally sentenced to five deaths as an “agent of internationalism (enemy of the people and opponent of the revolution)”. Initial additional charges such as “gang formation and smuggling” had to be dropped during the investigation. As a result of these events, Dultz lost his Libyan citizenship.

In May 1983 he returned to Germany as part of the so-called terrorist exchange, but his family still lives in Libya.

live in Germany

From October 1983 to June 1994 Dultz had a job in the financial administration of the US Embassy in Bonn .

Since the end of 1983 he has also been “Islamic” with the German Chadigah, that is, in a second marriage.

As a representative of a Sufi order for the German-speaking area, Dultz Schech (= Sheikh ) became the Tariqa As-Safinah, which belongs to the Schadhiliyya tradition.

Functions

Chairman of the German Muslim League from 1984 to 1988, member of the board from 1988 to 1992.
1989 founder and until 2010 chairman of the German Muslim League Bonn e. V. ("DMLBonn").
From 1986 to 1994 board member and then until February 2006 chairman of the Christian-Islamic Society e. V. Since then honorary member and member of the board of trustees.
Honorary fellow of the Jewish Leo Baeck College , London, since October 1998.
Member of the DIWAN committee (committee of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany and the Islamic Council for the Federal Republic of Germany to determine the beginning and end of the fasting month of Ramadan in Germany).
2006 co-founder and since then a delegate of DMLBonn in the “Council of Muslims Bonn”.
Since 2005 member of the “Global Council” of the United Religions Initiative (URI) (one of the three elected representatives for Europe).
Member of the board of the United Religions Initiative Europe (URI Europe), Brussels, since 1999.
Founding member and chairman of URI Germany (founded 2005).
Founding member of the Bendorfer Forum for Ecumenical Encounters and Interreligious Dialogue e. V.
Until 1999 he was the Muslim team leader in the one-week Standing European Conference of Jews, Christians and Muslims in Europe (JCM), which meets annually in Bendorf in the Hedwig-Dransfeld-Haus.
Since 1985 he has been the Muslim team leader of the biannual one-week "Three Faiths Summer School" for Jews, Christians and Muslims (JCM) in Ammerdown (Great Britain).

In addition, he is a board member or a simple member of several organizations and associations, such as:

World Conference of Religions for Peace (WCRP),
in a number of German-Arab friendship associations,
in some Sufi groups / orders at home and abroad,
and in some foreign Islamic centers.

Dultz appears as a speaker and co-organizer of seminars.

In September 2008 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for his commitment to interreligious dialogue .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Ulrike Hummel: A lifetime traveler . Islamic Newspaper , May 4, 2016, accessed September 18, 2017.
↑ Longstanding member of the Central Council receives the Federal Cross of Merit . Islamische Zeitung , September 23, 2008, published on islam.de, September 24, 2008, accessed on September 18, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Dultz, Bashir Ahmad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dultz, Shekh Bashir Ahmad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German religious functionary
DATE OF BIRTH	1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koenigsberg

[1] Ulrike Hummel: A lifetime traveler . Islamic Newspaper , May 4, 2016, accessed September 18, 2017.

[2] Longstanding member of the Central Council receives the Federal Cross of Merit . Islamische Zeitung , September 23, 2008, published on islam.de, September 24, 2008, accessed on September 18, 2017.