Birgit Mock

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Birgit Mock (2016)
Birgit Mock (2016)

Birgit Mock (born April 8, 1970 in Aachen ) is the managing director of the Hildegardis Association . She is family policy spokeswoman for the Central Committee of German Catholics and Vice President of the Catholic German Women's Association .

Career

Birgit Mock grew up in Aachen- Laurensberg . She attended the Anne Frank High School there . After graduation, she worked in Silvepura (near Bangalore six months as "assistant teacher" / India) before it since 1990 in Bonn the study of nutritional science took up to 1996 and graduated with a diploma.

After completing his studies, Mock worked for Bergmoser + Höller Verlag . In 1997 she became a project officer at the Catholic German Women's Association “Preventive Management - Sustainable Households” (funded as an environmental education project by the German Federal Environment Foundation ). From 1999 to 2001 Mock carried out the East-West-European exposure program "Raiffeisen" with Albanian smallholders in the border triangle of Baden / Alsace / Romandie. At the same time, she worked for the Church & Environment clearing office, developing the simulation “Current market interests: Church customer on unknown territory”. She carried out this in cooperation with the Catholic Social Institute. From 2000 to 2004 Mock worked as a project manager for fundraising, advanced training and public relations and as press spokeswoman for the federal association donum vitae eV .

Since 2004 Birgit Mock has been managing director of the Hildegardis Association, the oldest association for the promotion of women's studies in Germany. In addition to managing the office, her area of ​​responsibility also includes project management, currently for the first mentoring program to increase the proportion of women in leadership positions in the Catholic Church. The Hildegardis Association supports women in qualification and advancement projects financially and ideally.

Volunteering

Birgit Mock has been a member of the national board of the Catholic German Women's Association (KDFB) since 2003, and has been the vice president of the KDFB since 2011. The Catholic German Women's Association is a Catholic advocacy group for women in work, family, church and politics. Mock's areas of responsibility on the board include questions of bioethics and family policy and the church dialogue process.

Birgit Mock is family policy spokeswoman for the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZDK). In her department, Mock is responsible for church and socio-political positioning. Her contribution to the papal letter Amoris Laetitia was published on the front page of the Osservatore Romano . The ZdK is the union of representatives of the diocesan councils and the Catholic associations as well as of institutions of the lay apostolate and other personalities from church and society. In 2015, the ZdK's declaration was published : Building bridges between teaching and the world: Family and Church in today's world.

Cardinal Marx appointed Birgit Mock in November 2016 as an advisor to the Episcopal Commission on Marriage and Family.

Awards

The Hildegardis Association's first mentoring program for students with disabilities in Germany was awarded the “ 365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas 2010 ” innovation competition and the Aggiornamento Prize of the 2014 Catholic Day. The project was funded by the Contergan Foundation for Disabled People .

Publications

  • Birgit Mock, Margot Papenheim, Eva M. Welskop-Deffaa , Silvia Westendorf: Starting today for tomorrow - women on sustainable paths , 1997
  • Birgit Mock, Karl Osner, Shila Monasterios: Future viability of smallholder farms: Development has got a face ; Volume 11; Series of publications Justice and Peace of the German Commission Justitia et Pax, working paper 94; 2001
  • Open doors - pave the way: The nationwide first mentoring program for students with disabilities 2008–2012; Project documentation; Findings from the project (pages 38–41)
  • Life path included: CompetenceTandems for students with and without disabilities 2013–2016 ; Project documentation Education gives you wings (pages 10–12)
  • Birgit Mock, Monika Treber: Recommendations for a gender-equitable inclusive university . In: (communicate) biographies . Ed. Mechthild Bereswill, Johanna Zühlke, Kassel University Press 2016, pp. 187–195
  • With the blessing of the church? - Same-sex partnership in the focus of pastoral care; Stephan Loos / Michael Reitemeyer / Georg Trettin (eds.); Herder Verlag; 2019; Pp. 117-125

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Exposure and Dialog Program eV
  2. ↑ donum vitae eV
  3. ↑ Catholic German Women's Association | Federal Association. In: www.frauenbund.de. Retrieved November 22, 2016 .
  4. ^ Central Committee of German Catholics
  5. ^ ZdK - Central Committee of German Catholics | Publications | Speeches and contributions | Detail page | In joint responsibility Birgit Mock, family policy spokeswoman for the ZdK, on ​​the post-synodal letter from Pope Francis "Amoris laetitia" about love in the family. Published in the Osservatore Romano on May 4, 2016 (original German version). In: www.zdk.de. Retrieved November 22, 2016 .
  6. ^ ZdK - Central Committee of German Catholics | About us | Our tasks. In: www.zdk.de. Retrieved November 22, 2016 .
  7. ^ ZdK - Central Committee of German Catholics | Publications | Explanations | Detail page | Building bridges between teaching and living environment - family and church in today's world. In: www.zdk.de. Retrieved November 22, 2016 .
  8. ^ German Bishops' Conference: Commission for Marriage and Family. (No longer available online.) In: www.dbk.de. Archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on November 24, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dbk.de
  9. ↑ Mentoring program for students with disabilities
  10. ↑ Germany, land of ideas
  11. ↑ Catholic German Women's Association / Catholic Women's Community in Germany / Misereor (ed.)
  12. ^ German Commission Justitia et Pax
  13. ↑ Open doors - pave the way (pdf)
  14. ↑ Life path included: CompetenceTandems for students with and without disabilities 2013 - 2016 (pdf)
personal data
SURNAME Mock, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German managing director of the Hildegardis Association
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen