Dietrich Mendt

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Dietrich Mendt (born November 4, 1926 in Niederwiesa , † July 23, 2006 in Dresden ) was an Evangelical Lutheran theologian . He was from 1970 in senior ecclesiastical offices, 1983 Oberlandeskirchenrat the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony .

Life

Dietrich Mendt was born as the son of the Germanist Arthur Mendt. After participating in the war and imprisonment , he first studied pedagogy after the Second World War and then studied Protestant theology in Leipzig, Berlin and Basel. After ordination in 1954, he was a pastor in Lückendorf and worked at the Lückendorfer seminary, a. a. in the Lückendorf working group . From 1955 he was pastor at the Frauenkirche in Dresden and at the same time study inspector at the seminary in Lückendorf. In 1958 he succeeded Siegfried Schmutzler as a student pastor in Leipzig (with service in the community of Taucha near Leipzig) and tried a. a. with the so-called house group work new forms of community work. From 1963 he worked as a parish priest at the St. Pauli cross parish in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz). Since 1969 he was also a synodal member of the Conference of Evangelical Church Leaders in the GDR (KKL). In 1970, he was initially Technical Representative to Dresden to Landeskirchenamt called and was here for many years - from 1973 as Senior Church and in 1983 as Oberlandeskirchenrat - for the church development charge in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony. In 1983 he left this office at his own request and became superintendent in Zittau . It was here that he experienced the turning point in 1989. In 1991 Dietrich Mendt retired and lived in Dresden, later in Radebeul .

Mendt was a member of the Christian Peace Conference (CFK) and participant of the 1st All-Christian Peace Assembly in Prague in 1961 .

Dietrich Mendt was married and had four children. He died after a serious illness on July 23, 2006 in Dresden. In addition to theological works, he has also published satires, short stories and song texts since the 1960s, and later a novel. He wrote the text for the oratorio Go down, Moses (1969) and the children's opera Der Josa mit der Zauberfidel (1972) by Diether Noll and the Christmas oratorio by Matthias Drude .

literature

  • Short biography for:  Mendt, Dietrich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Dietrich Mendt: Story of an old car . In: wanted. 22 authors about themselves . With an afterword by Karl Bongardt. 1st edition. Union Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 299-313 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His predecessor in office was Georg-Siegfried Schmutzler , who was sentenced to five years in prison in a show trial for so-called “ boycott agitation ” in 1957 . “In May 1958, in a report by the SED district leadership [Leipzig] about the ESG [Leipzig], it was stated that Mendt's relationship with his community members was very good. […] Mendt rejects the path taken by Schmutzler and shows a more loyal attitude towards the state . ”Cornelia Schnapka-Bartmuß: The Protestant student communities Leipzig and Halle / Saale in the years 1945 to 1971. Dissertation. University of Leipzig , Leipzig 2008, p. 236 (as well as notes 1046 and 1047), quoted here from: SächsStAL ( Sächsisches Staatsarchiv Leipzig ), SED district management Leipzig, IV / 2/14/624, sheets 238–240 and IV / 2/14/637, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Mendt, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederwiesa
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 2006
Place of death Dresden