Christhard Wagner

Christhard Wagner (born May 14, 1955 in Leipzig ) is a German theologian and senior church councilor .

Life

Christhard Wagner was born on May 14, 1955 in Leipzig as the son of the theologian Heinz Wagner . After ten years of school at the Polytechnic High School, he learned the trade of construction worker . After military service in the National People's Army of the GDR , he studied from 1976 to 1981 theology in Leipzig.

After a vicariate in Heidenau ( Saxony ), Wagner moved to the Thuringian regional church in 1982 . After the end of the vicariate he became pastor in Großenlupnitz near Eisenach . In 1985 he took over the office of district youth pastor in the superintendent of Eisenach.

From 1989 to 1998 he was the state youth pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia, then superintendent of the superintendent of Gotha-Gräfentonna .

In March 2001 the regional synod elected Wagner to the senior church council. Until 2011 he was the head of the education department of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM).

Since the beginning of 2011 Wagner has been the representative of the Ev. Churches in the Thuringian Parliament.

discussion

Discussions broke out in 2009 because of statements made by Wagner about an award ceremony for the journalist and pastor Helmut Matthies . Wagner publicly criticized Matthies, head of the Protestant news agency Idea , because Matthies had accepted the Gerhard Löwenthal Prize for Publicists from the Foundation for Conservative Education and Research , which is awarded by the right-wing conservative weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit . After complaints from idea, a conversation took place in which Bishop Ilse Junkermann was also involved. However, there remained a different assessment of the effect of the acceptance of the price. In conversation, the Evangelical Church in Central Germany and idea agreed that Christian belief is incompatible with right-wing extremism .

Individual evidence

↑ Christhard Wagner: Sermon on 1 Peter 4:10 , website of the Thomaskirche Leipzig, November 11, 2012, accessed on December 13, 2017.
↑ ^a ^b Short biography of Wagner on the website of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM) , accessed on June 25, 2010 (PDF)
↑ Announcement of the election of OKR Klein as head of education at the EKM ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Education Department of the Protestant Church in Central Germany. Retrieved January 25, 2016 @1@ 2

^ Announcement of the Evangelical Church of Central Germany Website of the Evangelical Church of Central Germany. Retrieved April 2, 2018

↑ Criticism of the award for “idea” ( memento of the original from September 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from December 28, 2009 @1@ 2

↑ Helmut Matthies after acceptance of the Löwenthal Prize in the criticism ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Terminus on the right of January 6, 2010 @1@ 2

↑ The EKM's head of education criticizes the head of the Evangelical news agency idea for accepting a prize from “Junge Freiheit” , EMK press release from December 28, 2009

↑ Clarifying encounter between the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM) and the Evangelical News Agency idea. Evangelical Church in Central Germany , archived from the original on June 25, 2010 ; Retrieved June 25, 2010 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wagner, Christhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theologian and senior church councilor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 14, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig

[1] Christhard Wagner: Sermon on 1 Peter 4:10 , website of the Thomaskirche Leipzig, November 11, 2012, accessed on December 13, 2017.

[EMK-2] Short biography of Wagner on the website of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM) , accessed on June 25, 2010 (PDF)

[3] Announcement of the election of OKR Klein as head of education at the EKM ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Education Department of the Protestant Church in Central Germany. Retrieved January 25, 2016 @1@ 2

[4] Announcement of the Evangelical Church of Central Germany Website of the Evangelical Church of Central Germany. Retrieved April 2, 2018

[5] Criticism of the award for “idea” ( memento of the original from September 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from December 28, 2009 @1@ 2

[6] Helmut Matthies after acceptance of the Löwenthal Prize in the criticism ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Terminus on the right of January 6, 2010 @1@ 2

[7] The EKM's head of education criticizes the head of the Evangelical news agency idea for accepting a prize from “Junge Freiheit” , EMK press release from December 28, 2009

[8] Clarifying encounter between the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM) and the Evangelical News Agency idea. Evangelical Church in Central Germany , archived from the original on June 25, 2010 ; Retrieved June 25, 2010 .