Christopher Dannenmann

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Christopher Dannenmann (born December 31, 1938 in Berlin ; † March 29, 2020 in Sinsheim ) was a German Protestant pastor, philosopher and long-time president of the Christian Youth Village Association in Germany (CJD).

Life

Christopher Dannenmann was born in Berlin as the eldest of the three sons of the CJD founder Arnold Dannenmann . He first attended the Christophorus School of the CJD Berchtesgaden , later the CJD Jugenddorf-Christophorusschule Oberurff , where he graduated from high school. He then studied theology , education as well as the history of religion and intellectual history in Erlangen , Marburg and Hamburg . In 1969 he received his doctorate from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, with his dissertation on Bruno Bauer . Afterwards he worked for the Christian Youth Village Association and looked after a residential group for young people with learning disabilities and missing school-leaving qualifications at the CJD Dortmund. During this time he developed a nationwide model for the professional preparation of young people with learning disabilities and, after reunification, played a key role in establishing the CJD in the new federal states. In 1970 he moved to the CJD headquarters, where he was responsible, among other things, for vocational training and the development of appropriate youth villages as well as for socio-educational training. Within two years he founded 24 youth villages. In 1979 he became an executive board member of the CJD, and from 1985 to 1992 he was executive chairman, succeeding his father.

Until his death, Dannemann was a member of the parish council of the Evangelical Church Community Sinsheim , chairman of the district synod of the Kraichgau church district and chairman of the OJAS development association (Open Youth Work Sinsheim eV) that he founded. He lived in retirement with his wife Hannelore, who died a few days before him on March 12th, in Sinsheim. Their wedding took place on April 22, 1965 in the Hirsau Monastery in the Black Forest.

Publications (selection)

  • Bruno Bauer. A monographic study (dissertation of October 3, 1969, Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
  • Democratization of the school. Schoolchildren and student representatives in the democratic school , Neckar-Verlag, Villingen 1969.
  • Nobody should be lost: the Christian Youth Village Association of Germany (CJD); a manual , Burg-Verlag, Bonn 1991, ISBN 978-3-922801-77-1 .
as (co) editor
  • Accountability and duty. Contributions to educational work in the present. Arnold Dannenmann on his 60th birthday on January 4, 1967 , Walter Rau Verlag, Düsseldorf 1967.
  • with Hans Julius Schoeps and Lutz Reichardt: Youth and Politics (Series: Paideia; Education and Training Today), Neckar-Verlag, Villingen 1968.
  • Education and educational policy in the Federal Republic of Germany: Aspects, problems, tendencies , Luchterhand, Berlin 1973, ISBN 978-3-472-54017-5 .
  • Time of maturity (sermons), Burg-Verlag, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-922801-92-7 .

Awards

  • 1986 awarded him the then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker , the Federal Cross of Merit . At a ceremony in the New Palace in Stuttgart, he was honored with the words: "He played a key role in ensuring that the Christian Youth Village Association in Germany is one of the best-organized, independent educational and training organizations in the Federal Republic."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Christopher Dannenmann: Obituary notice , swp-hohenlohe.de, advert from April 2, 2020.
  2. ↑ Dr. Christopher Dannenmann: Obituary , cjd.de, obituary from March 31, 2020.
  3. ↑ Former CJD President Christopher Dannenmann has died , Idea , reported April 3, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Dannenmann, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, philosopher and long-time president of the Christian Youth Village Association in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2020
Place of death Sinsheim