Carsten Frerk

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Carsten Frerk (2007)

Carsten Frerk (born October 24, 1945 in Dangersen , today in Buchholz in the Nordheide ) is a German political scientist , journalist and author.

biography

Frerk grew up as the youngest of four sons of the doctor Frank Frerk and his wife Elisabeth Frerk in Hamburg. In 1965 he finished his school career at Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium with the Abitur and then did his basic military service . From 1967 to 1974 he studied German, art history and political science at the universities in Freiburg and Berlin. He completed his studies with a degree in political science and received his doctorate in 1979. rer. pole. with the grade summa cum laude . From 1975 to 1980 he was a research assistant and lecturer at the Free University of Berlin . From 1980 to 1991 he was managing director of Quorum Verlag und Druck GmbH in Berlin. Frerk has been a freelance writer, journalist and copywriter since 1993. He lives in Berlin and is married to the photographer Evelin Frerk, operator of the portal “Faces in Contemporary Humanism”.

Activities and points of view

Frerk became known for works critical of the church and religion . He is also the author of historical novels . The focus of his work is on the publication of books on the financial ties between the state and the two official churches in the Federal Republic of Germany. This is one of the reasons why he is considered a critic of the Church and religion . He describes himself as an "evidence-based skeptic".

In 2005 he became head of the research group Weltanschauungen in Germany (fowid). From 2006 to 2013 he was editor-in-chief of the Humanist Press Service (hpd). Frerk is also responsible for the state services information portal . He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Giordano Bruno Foundation until 2012 and then switched to the Scientific Advisory Board.

Together with Peder Iblher, Philipp Möller and others, he initiated the atheist bus campaign in Germany in 2009 .

In connection with the savings debate in 2010, Spiegel TV relies on Carsten Frerk's statement that the seven dioceses of the Free State of Bavaria alone have annual church income of around 1.2 billion euros, but that the state still takes over the salaries of some clergymen; in other federal states it is similar.

In November 2010, Spiegel Online reported, with reference to Frerk, that the large churches receive around 19 billion euros in direct and indirect subsidies from the state every year. Frerk sums up state funds for facilities such as B. kindergartens, schools that take on state tasks as independent bodies , old legal titles, theological faculties, development aid and the state collection of church taxes, for which the religious communities pay remuneration to the states.

In an interview on the case of two Catholic clinics in Cologne, which had rejected investigations into an alleged rape victim because of the problem of the morning-after pill , Frerk stated that “hospitals, if they are included in the country's hospital plan, are 100 percent be publicly funded. "

In 2018, Frerk criticized the idea of ​​a church tax for Muslims in relation to Deutschlandfunk, referring to the lack of structural compatibility between Islam and the idea of ​​a corporation under public law.

Fonts (selection)

Factual issues

  • Possibilities and limits of the practical orientation of the study of political scientists. An empirical analysis . 2 volumes, Quorum, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-88726-002-3 (dissertation FU Berlin 1980, 385 and 466 pages).
  • Finances and assets of the churches in Germany . Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2002. ISBN 3-932710-39-8
  • Caritas and Diakonie in Germany . Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2005. ISBN 3-86569-000-9
  • The church in your head - from “Oh dear” to “To the devil” . Dictionary. Together with Michael Schmidt-Salomon . Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2007. ISBN 3-86569-024-6
  • Violet Book of Church Finances. How the state finances the churches . Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2010. ISBN 978-3865690395
  • God's work and our contribution. Church funding in Austria . (together with Christoph Baumgarten), Czernin, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7076-0430-6
  • Church Republic of Germany. Christian lobbyism . Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86569-190-3

Novels

Web links

Commons : Carsten Frerk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Faces in contemporary humanism
  2. ↑ http://www.staatsleistungen.de/
  3. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE of June 8, 2010: Debate on savings: State pays 442 million euros for church salaries
  4. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE of November 8, 2010: New calculations: State supports churches with billions
  5. ↑ Does the state really pay the churches 19 billion euros a year? kirchenfinanzen.de - EKD website , archived from the original on October 12, 2011 ; Retrieved July 27, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Debate about the finances of the Church. Retrieved July 27, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Carsten Frerk on dealing with an alleged rape victim Deutschlandradio, accessed on January 25, 2013
  8. ↑ Christiane Florin: Influence of the churches on politics "democratically scandalous". In: www.deutschlandfunk.de. December 31, 2018, accessed September 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Frerk, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Dangersen