Dieter Grande

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Dieter Grande (born February 24, 1930 in Waldenburg ( Silesia ); † April 30, 2016 in Dresden ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian , pastor and journalist .

Life

Dieter Grande came to northern Germany as a displaced person after the Second World War and graduated from high school in Nordenham . From 1950 he studied Catholic theology at the University of Münster , later at the Philosophical-Theological Study in Erfurt . On 18 December 1955 he received in Neuzelle the priesthood and was subsequently Kaplan in Karl-Marx-Stadt and Leipzig .

Grave of Dieter Grande, Cathedral Chapter Old Catholic Cemetery (Dresden)

From 1963 to 1969 Grande was diocesan youth pastor in the diocese of Dresden-Meißen and was entrusted with various diocesan tasks in the following period. From 1972 to 1975 he was secretary of the pastoral synod of the Roman Catholic jurisdictions in the GDR .

In 1976 he went to Leipzig-Gohlis as a pastor , in 1982 he became Caritas Director and in 1986 cathedral pastor at the Catholic Court Church in Dresden. In September 1988 he became press spokesman for the Berlin Bishops' Conference . During the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR, Dieter Grande was also the press spokesman for the Central Round Table together with the Protestant pastor Rolf-Dieter Günther .

After the German reunification , Grande was again active in his diocese: as press officer, Caritas director and from 1992 to 1995 as head of the Catholic office in the Free State of Saxony . Until 1998, he was also responsible for processing contacts between Catholic priests and lay people with the Ministry for State Security of the GDR.

In his diocese, Grande was widely known for his musical and cabaret initiatives. The band Gospeltrain and the cabaret Die Dekana (h) tlosen owed their existence to him. At the Katholikentreffen in Dresden in 1987, he and the ex caritate group he founded performed a religious musical entitled Noah under the rainbow in front of a large audience . A prize for popular music in the church awarded by the Working Group for Young Music (AGJM) in the Diocese of Dresden-Meißen in 2006 and 2010 was named “Grande-Prix” after him, a pioneer of contemporary songs in the liturgy.

During his student and chaplain years, Grande published work aids for youth and community work. Since the 1990s he has published several contemporary publications on the church in the GDR.

His grave is in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden.

Publications (selection)

  • To the edge of the world. The book of the youth , Düsseldorf 1954
  • Light for amateur stages. A workbook for game masters and stage lighting , Munich 1959
  • The decisive hour of the Holy Mass , 2nd edition, Leipzig 1964
  • Council and Diaspora. The resolutions of the pastoral synod of the Catholic Church in the GDR (ed.), 2nd edition, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-7462-0281-7
  • Church in sight. SED, State Security and Catholic Church in the GDR (with Bernd Schäfer), Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-7462-1247-2
  • The Synod of the Diocese of Meißen 1969 to 1971. The answer of a local church to the Second Vatican Council (with Peter-Paul Straube), Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-7462-1806-3

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Prelate Dieter Grande (86) died. In: Homepage. Diocese of Dresden-Meißen , May 2, 2016, accessed on February 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Grande, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2016
Place of death Dresden