Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel

Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel (2008)

Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel at the Evangelical Church Congress 2009 in Bremen.

Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel (born May 12, 1955 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) is a German pastor and president of Bread for the World and the Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe . From July 1, 2014 to the end of June 2017, she was the chairwoman of the Evangelical Work for Diakonia and Development .

Life and work

Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel studied Protestant theology , political science and educational science in Tübingen as well as at the Free University and the Church University in Berlin . From 1979 to 1984 she was an assistant at the Department of Protestant Theology at the Free University of Berlin . After the vicariate from 1984 to 1988 in Berlin-Zehlendorf and Heidelberg , she was ordained in Berlin in 1988 . She then worked for two years in the management department of the Berliner Missionswerk (establishment of the women's department).

From 1990 to 1992, Füllkrug-Weitzel was a consultant for educational and public relations work on human rights issues in the church office of the Evangelical Church in Germany in Hanover . From 1992 to 1999 she was head of the community service department, the ecumenical workshop and the ecumenical work for foreigners, and in 1997 she was head of the press and public relations department at the Berlin Mission.

From 1984 to 1998 she was a lecturer at the Free University and at the Humboldt University in Berlin, the church university there and the Wichernkolleg of the Johannesstift .

Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel was director for ecumenical diakonia from 2000 to 2012 in the Diakonisches Werk of the EKD with the aid campaigns Bread for the World , Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe and Hope for Eastern Europe . Since the merger of the Diakonisches Werk of the EKD with the Evangelical Development Service in 2012, she has been President of the Bread for the World organization, which forms the Evangelical Work for Diakonia and Development with the Diakonie Deutschland and to which Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe also belongs. From 2012 to 2014 she was and since 2017 she is the deputy chairwoman of the board of directors of the plant, from 2014 to 2017 she was its chairman.

Füllkrug-Weitzel is a delegate at major ecumenical conferences and a member of commissions of the World Council of Churches . She lives with her husband in Berlin.

politics

The SPD Stuttgart had nominated Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel as a direct candidate for the 2009 Bundestag election for the Stuttgart I constituency . In October 2008, Füllkrug-Weitzel renounced her candidacy. "I finally decided to stay with and remain loyal to 'Bread for the World' during this difficult time so as not to endanger this valuable instrument of development cooperation and its partners, which is soon to be 50 years old, by leaving at the wrong time," said the Theologian.

In the 2013 federal election campaign she was a member of the competence team of SPD candidate for chancellor Peer Steinbrück .

Awards

2007: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
2016: Honorary doctorate from the Sam Higginbottom Institute in Allahabad , India

literature

Thomas Krüger, Carola Wolf, Udo Hahn (eds.): Who is where in the Protestant Church? People and functions (= GEP book ). Joint work of Protestant journalism, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-932194-29-2 .

Web links

Commons : Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel - official website

supporting documents

^ Diakonie President Stockmeier retired ( memento from October 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: diakonie.de. May 14, 2014, accessed on October 16, 2016 ("With the departure of President Stockmeier , the chairmanship of the Evangelical Work for Diakonia and Development is passed on to the President of Bread for the World, Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel.").
↑ SPD state chairman Ute Vogt is running for the 2009 Bundestag election in the Stuttgart I constituency. In: SPD-Stuttgart.de. October 10, 2008, accessed February 14, 2020 .
↑ Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel renounces the Bundestag candidacy. Director of “Bread for the World” remains at the helm of the aid organization ( Memento from October 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: dailynet.de. October 10, 2008, accessed October 16, 2016.
↑ the church . No. 40, October 2, 2016, p. 9 (namely "as the first woman"; "The theological faculty of the College of Agriculture, Technology and Science proposed her for the award because of her 'remarkable commitment to society'." ).

personal data
SURNAME	Füllkrug-Weitzel, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pastor and director of the "Bread for the World" campaign
DATE OF BIRTH	May 12, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bad Homburg vor der Höhe

[1] Diakonie President Stockmeier retired ( memento from October 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: diakonie.de. May 14, 2014, accessed on October 16, 2016 ("With the departure of President Stockmeier , the chairmanship of the Evangelical Work for Diakonia and Development is passed on to the President of Bread for the World, Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel.").

[2] SPD state chairman Ute Vogt is running for the 2009 Bundestag election in the Stuttgart I constituency. In: SPD-Stuttgart.de. October 10, 2008, accessed February 14, 2020 .

[3] Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel renounces the Bundestag candidacy. Director of “Bread for the World” remains at the helm of the aid organization ( Memento from October 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: dailynet.de. October 10, 2008, accessed October 16, 2016.

[4] the church . No. 40, October 2, 2016, p. 9 (namely "as the first woman"; "The theological faculty of the College of Agriculture, Technology and Science proposed her for the award because of her 'remarkable commitment to society'." ).