Dieter Walther

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Dieter Walther (born April 7, 1930 in Pforzheim ; † October 4, 2013 in Karlsbad-Auerbach ) was a German religious educator , founder of the youth center SAK in Lörrach , deputy regional bishop in Baden and long-time president of the German section of the association “Faith in the second world ”based in Zurich .

biography

Dieter Walther was born as the son of the Sparkasse director Theo Walther. He spent his school and high school days in his hometown of Pforzheim. After graduating from high school, Walther studied Protestant theology at the universities of Heidelberg , Basel and Tübingen with a final exam in 1954. After receiving his doctorate in systematic theology under Edmund Schlink in 1956 , he became a parish vicar in Rastatt . This was followed by positions as a full-time religion teacher in Villingen and Lörrach ( Hans-Thoma-Gymnasium and Hebel-Gymnasium Lörrach ). In 1965 he accepted a position at the Lörrach University of Education. There he worked as a professor for Protestant theology and religious education until 1972.

In the winter semester 1968/69, under the title The truth is concrete, the youth project SAK (Social Working Group) was created in Walther's theological seminar with the aim of the concrete commitment of students for socially disadvantaged children. The student activities supported by the Lörrach student community and sponsored by the Rotary Club Lörrach soon led to state recognition. The city administration of Lörrach and the Evangelical Church of Baden still support the Lörrach social working group as a nationwide showcase of successful citizens' initiative for the integration of young people.

In 1972, the Evangelical Church in Baden appointed Walther as senior church councilor to Karlsruhe and made him head of the school and education department . For several years he was the permanent representative of the regional bishop Klaus Engelhardt .

In the 1980s he was elected President of the German section of the association: "Faith in the Second World", based in Zurich. The aim of this association was the active care of Christians in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc .

Walther was born in 1960 with Gisela. Sauer married, both had two sons and a daughter together.

Most important awards and honors

Publications (selection)

  • Broadcast sermons . Burg-Verlag, Sachsenheim / Stuttgart / Bonn 1985 (= sermon series, 2), ISBN 3-922801-89-7 ; further sermons by Dieter Walther appeared in volume 3 of the sermon series , pp. 119–124, and in the Calwer Predigthilfen , half volume 2, 1996/1997, pp. 13–19
  • (With Georg Gölter): Education for a fulfilled life . Bonn 1982 (= publications of the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU / CSU, 3)
  • Concrete tasks of religious instruction in schools in our intellectual-historical situation . Lecture given at the regional conference of the Evangelical Federation in Schopfheim, Evangelischer Presseverband, Karlsruhe 1970
  • The compromise in Roman Catholic morality and Evangelical Lutheran ethics. Dissertation Heidelberg, 1956

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appreciation by Dieter Walther in the Badische Zeitung 2013
personal data
SURNAME Walther, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 2013
Place of death Karlsbad-Auerbach