Christian Staffa

Christian Staffa (* 1959 in Essen ) has been the anti-Semitism officer of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) for the period of office until 2022 since 2019 by decision of the EKD Council on October 18, 2019. He has been the director of studies at the Evangelical Academy since November 2013 Berlin .

Act

Staffa studied Protestant theology in Berlin , Tübingen and Prague . From 1999 to 2012 he was managing director of Aktion Sühnezeichen , which arranges international voluntary services for young people. The doctor of theology is committed to the Judeo-Christian dialogue and has dealt with the topic of right-wing extremism on several occasions . He is the author of numerous publications on anti-Semitism and group-related enmity .

Memberships

• Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the AMCHA Foundation
• Christian chairman of the working group Jews and Christians at the German Evangelical Church Congress
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Church and Judaism
• Member of the speakers' council of the Federal Working Group on Church and Right-Wing Extremism
• Founding member of the network anti-Semitism and racism-critical religious education and theology (NARRT)

Quotes

• "According to the biblical theological message, all Christians should be 'anti-Semitism officers'."
• "Anti-Semitism is disbelief."

literature

• Literature by and about Christian Staffa in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berlin theologian becomes the EKD's first anti-Semitism officer evangelisch.de / epd October 18, 2019. Retrieved December 23, 2019.
2. ↑ Evangelical Church appoints anti-Semitism officer Unverrückbar to the side of Jewish sisters and brothers Domradio October 19, 2019. Accessed December 23, 2019.
3. ↑ Christian Staffa , EKD. Retrieved December 23, 2019.
4. ↑ Press release Christian-Staffa , EKD, October 21, 2019. Accessed December 23, 2019.