Christian Hermes

Christian Hermes (born May 5, 1970 in Baden-Baden ) is a Roman Catholic clergyman who has served as the city ​​dean of Stuttgart and cathedral pastor of the cathedral parish of St. Eberhard since 2011 . His stance, most recently in the state election campaign in Baden-Württemberg, against right-wing populism and xenophobia , especially against the alternative for Germany , was received in the regional and national press. On television he appeared as a guest in the SWR Landesschau aktuell Baden-Württemberg and in the SWR Nachtcafé .

Life

Christian Hermes grew up in Weisenbach . After obtaining the general higher education entrance qualification at the Gymnasium Gernsbach in 1989, he began studying Catholic theology and philosophy at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . For this he had a grant from the Cusanuswerk Episcopal Study Foundation . During his studies Christian Hermes spent a year in Paris, where he continued his studies at the Philosophical-Theological College of the Society of Jesus " Center Sèvres " and at the Institut Catholique de Paris . In 1995 he received his diploma and passed the first church service examination. Between 2004 and 2008 he developed his state church law dissertation concordats in united Germany , following which he Theological Catholic by the faculty of the University of Tübingen Dr. theol. received his doctorate.

Professional background

After receiving his diploma in 1995, Christian Hermes worked as a research assistant at the chair for basic philosophical questions in theology at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. From 1997 he was the scientific coordinator of the DFG graduate college Ars and scientia in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period as well as theological assistant and later personal advisor to Bishop Walter Kasper . In 1999 he became the personal assistant to the diocesan administrator Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Kreidler and in 2000 he became the personal assistant to Bishop Gebhard Fürst . In 2002 he was ordained a deacon and completed his diaconate in Rottweil in the pastoral care unit St. Pelagius. In 2003 he was ordained a priest with subsequent vicariate in Leutkirch im Allgäu in the St. Martin pastoral care unit. In 2004 he continued his vicariate in Tübingen in the parish of St. Petrus, with a partial exemption for a doctorate. Between 2007 and 2011 he was pastor of St. Elisabeth and St. Clemens (head of the pastoral care unit Stuttgart 4). In 2010 he became deputy city dean of Stuttgart (dean for social affairs and day-care centers). Since 2011 he has been city dean of Stuttgart and cathedral pastor of the cathedral church St. Eberhard Stuttgart , chairman of the Caritas Council of the Caritas Association Stuttgart and member of the board of trustees of the Eugen Bolz Foundation .

Awards

• 2012: Award of the title of a Papal Honorary Chaplain ("Monsignore") by Pope Benedict XVI.

Publications

Monographs

• Concordats in a united Germany. Zugl. Diss. Univ. Tübingen 2008, Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7867-2763-7

Art guide

• St. Eberhard Cathedral in Stuttgart. Photos: Joachim Feist, Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89870-819-7
• Pelagius Church Rottweil old town. Photos: Joachim Feist, Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89870-497-7

Essays

• Church and political vigilance. The AfD as a touchstone. In: Stefan Orth, Volker Resing (ed.): AfD, Pegida and Co. Attack on religion? Herder, Freiburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-451-27466-4 ; limited preview in Google Book search
• Eject the net on the right: experiences of a pastor in Europe's largest business network Xing. In: Communicatio Socialis Vol. 43, 2010, pp. 173-183
• How to ask after death? A philosophical meditation on the question of death and its impossible answer. In: Communio 33 (2004), pp. 544-558
• With Walter Kasper : Humanity as an educational goal: Preliminaries to a new understanding beyond economic reductionism and media simulations. In: Christoph Th. Scheilke (ed.): Religion, ethics, school: educational policy perspectives in the plural society. Waxmann, Münster a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-89325-697-0 , pp. 95-113

Web links

• Catholic City Deanery : Head , kath-kirche-stuttgart.de , accessed on January 10, 2017
• Mathias Bury, Nicole Höfle: Interview with Christian Hermes: Passionate pastor and church manager , Stuttgarter Zeitung , September 16, 2011
• Marc Schieferecke: Resident in Mitte (II): Christian Hermes. Homeless man meets opera goers , Stuttgarter Nachrichten , 11 August 2015
• Mathias Bury: Portrait series: At home in the Migrant Church , Stuttgarter Nachrichten , May 13, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rüdiger Soldt: "The AfD is the twin of the Islamists" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 21, 2016
2. ↑ Bernhard Honnigfort: A pastor fights against the AfD . In: Frankfurter Rundschau, April 27, 2016
3. ↑ Bernhard Honnigfort: A priest who messes with the AfD . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, April 27, 2016, also in the Berliner Zeitung
4. ↑ Stuttgart city dean criticizes AfD party program . domradio.de, May 2, 2016
5. ↑ Catholic city dean does not want a "Stugida" ( memento of the original from January 11, 2017 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. , Protestant press service , December 23, 2014 
6. ↑ Christian Thomann-Busse: Priests Against Populism: "Those who cement themselves no longer discuss" ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Interview with Christian Hermes, heute.de , October 13, 2016 
7. ↑ Josef Schunder: Refugee Policy: AfD in violent clinch with Catholic Church , Stuttgarter Zeitung , October 8, 2016
8. ↑ Guest from Stuttgart: "Monsignore" Christian Hermes , SWR Landesschau aktuell Baden-Württemberg , December 23, 2016 ( Mediathek ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) 
9. ↑ In the intoxication of gifts - what is important to us at Christmas , Nachtcafé (talk show) , November 25, 2016
10. ↑ Personal details : City Dean Dr. Christian Hermes receives the papal honorary title “Monsignore” , in: Information from the Catholic City Deanery January 2013 , St. Urban Freiburg , PDF p. 5 f.