Carl okay

At the 1987 annual conference of the GDR's CFRP in the Stephanus Foundation in Berlin-Weißensee

Carl Ordinance (born October 18, 1927 in Lengenfeld , † March 6, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German Evangelical Methodist lay preacher , journalist, author and functionary of the GDR CDU .

Life

Carl Order was the son of a businessman . After elementary school, he attended a commercial college in Reichenbach, Saxony, and a business high school in Plauen . After his obligation to the Reichsarbeitsdienst he had to join the Wehrmacht at the end of the war . Because of an injury during his training, he experienced the end of the war in the hospital.

In 1946 he completed training as a new teacher . As a member of the SPD , he became a member of the SED in 1946 through the forced unification of the SPD and KPD .

From 1948 to 1951 he studied German , psychology and history at Leipzig University . There he met his future wife Esther, who converted him to Christianity. He entered the United Methodist Church , where he continued his theological training and was called to be a lay preacher.

Then he worked as a teacher in Reichenbach. In 1949 his membership in the SED was canceled because of his Christian attitude. Three years later he joined the GDR CDU. The CDU functionary Günter Wirth brought him to Berlin in 1957 as editor for the CDU daily newspaper Neue Zeit . He also wrote occasionally for Horizont magazine . Since it was founded in 1973, he has been a member of the editorial team of the Protestant magazine Standpunkt .

In 1958 he was promoted to head of department for church issues in the secretariat of the main board of his party, and from 1965 he worked as a research assistant. In his church he was also a member of its peace committee. From 1961 to 1990 he was secretary of the GDR regional committee of the Christian Peace Conference (CFK) and at the same time a member of the GDR Peace Council . He took part in the all-Christian peace meetings. In 1967 he was secretary of the International Study Commission "Politics and Economics".

From 1968 he was a member of the National Council of the National Front of the GDR , and from 1983 Vice President of the GDR-USA Friendship Society and a member of the World Peace Council .

He was commissioned several times by his United Methodist Church to undertake ecumenical work: in 1966 with participation in the World Conference for Church and Society of the WCC in Geneva , in 1988 at the Ecumenical Assembly of Churches and Christians in the GDR . Until 2003 he was a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Methodist Church.

In 1983, at a church peace workshop in East Berlin, as a representative of the state peace movement, he received laughter with the claim that the GDR was internally peaceful. The pastor Hans-Jochen Tschiche countered him there to create a climate of fear and discipline in domestic politics.

Order was carried out by the GDR State Security as an unofficial employee of "IM Vogtländer" . Files show that he denounced his fellow theologians.

From March 1990 he was briefing advisor to the Foreign and Security Policy Department in the de Maizière government and advisor to Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière on development policy issues. Also in 1990 he left the CDU.

Since 1990 he has been chairman of Solidarity Service International eV (SODI), the successor organization to the GDR Solidarity Committee, and held this function on a voluntary basis until 2002. Then he remained a board member until 2010.

Carl Order was married and has three daughters and one son.

Selected works

Christian and Revolution. Berlin 1974
Education for Peace. Possibilities and limits of an educational-political conception and their discussion in the churches. Union Berlin 1980
Enemy and hope for peace. Anti-communist deformations of the Christian message. Union Berlin 1985
Peace - promise and mandate. On the 30th anniversary of the Christian Peace Conference. Union Berlin 1988
Contributions to the Christian Peace Conference 1978–1992. Foreword: Peter F. Zimmermann, Leipzig 1992
New thinking: turning back to the future. Selected essays, lectures and sermons. Ed. by Hans-Joachim Beeskow and Hans-Otto Bredendiek, Leonhard-Thurneysser-Verlag Berlin & Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-939176-83-1

Awards

1969 Patriotic Order of Merit of the GDR in bronze
1987 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver

literature

Jan Wielgohs, Ehrhart Neubert: Order, Carl . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

↑ Jan Wielgohs, Ehrhart Neubert: Carl order . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

^ Hermann Wentker: The Church Political Department of the Eastern CDU: Organization, mode of operation and staffing . In: Clemens Vollnhals (ed.): The Church Policy of the SED and State Security. An interim balance . Ch. Links Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-86153-122-4 , pp. 159-189, here p. 181.

↑ See e.g. B. his contribution to Dom Helder Câmara, Archbishop of Recife and Olinda. A church leader against injustice and social backwardness . In: Horizont - Socialist weekly newspaper for international politics and economics , year 1971, No. 46, pp. 14-15.

↑ Not enough yet. The GDR leadership lets peace demonstrators have their way, but turns against Western influences . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1982, pp. 51-54 ( online - July 5, 1982 ).

↑ Peter Wensierski, Wolfgang Büscher: “I don't love you, you don't love me.” GDR youth scene (III): The peace movement . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1983, pp. 106-133 ( Online - Oct. 17, 1983 ).

^ Gerhard Besier : The East CDU, their religious policy and the MfS . In: Historisch-Politische Mitteilungen , vol. 1996, issue 3, pp. 133–144, here p. 138, footnote 29.

↑ Gerold Hildebrand : Erzählwerkstatt Friedenswerkstatt ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Horch and Guck , Volume 1997, Issue 57, pp. 1–3, footnote 8. @1@ 2

↑ Hedwig Richter: Pietism in Socialism. The Moravian Brethren in the GDR . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-37007-0 , p. 161.

^ Neue Zeit , October 2, 1969, p. 2.

^ Neue Zeit , October 6, 1987, p. 1.

Web links

Literature by and about Carl Order in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Carl Order at Open Library

personal data
SURNAME	Okay, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German educator, journalist and politician (GDR CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH	October 18, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lengenfeld
DATE OF DEATH	March 6, 2012
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Jan Wielgohs, Ehrhart Neubert: Carl order . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

[2] Hermann Wentker: The Church Political Department of the Eastern CDU: Organization, mode of operation and staffing . In: Clemens Vollnhals (ed.): The Church Policy of the SED and State Security. An interim balance . Ch. Links Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-86153-122-4 , pp. 159-189, here p. 181.

[3] See e.g. B. his contribution to Dom Helder Câmara, Archbishop of Recife and Olinda. A church leader against injustice and social backwardness . In: Horizont - Socialist weekly newspaper for international politics and economics , year 1971, No. 46, pp. 14-15.

[4] Not enough yet. The GDR leadership lets peace demonstrators have their way, but turns against Western influences . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1982, pp. 51-54 ( online - July 5, 1982 ).

[5] Peter Wensierski, Wolfgang Büscher: “I don't love you, you don't love me.” GDR youth scene (III): The peace movement . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1983, pp. 106-133 ( Online - Oct. 17, 1983 ).

[6] Gerhard Besier : The East CDU, their religious policy and the MfS . In: Historisch-Politische Mitteilungen , vol. 1996, issue 3, pp. 133–144, here p. 138, footnote 29.