Ernst-Rüdiger Kiesow

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Ernst-Rüdiger Kiesow (born January 9, 1926 in Schönhagen , † June 16, 2003 in Rostock ) was a Protestant theologian.

biography

After studying theology in Greifswald and Berlin , he became an assistant to Otto Haendler in Berlin. His dissertation took place in 1955, in 1962 he received his habilitation with a thesis on Carl Gustav Jung .

He was parish priest in Berlin-Pankow . On September 1, 1965, he was appointed professor of practical theology at the University of Rostock. From 1968 to 1970 he was dean of the theological faculty. In the University Senate, he refused to sign a statement welcoming the Warsaw Pact invasion of Prague in 1968.

Kiesow was a member of the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg and for 15 years of the synod of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR .

In 1983 Kiesow was made an honorary doctorate from the University of Helsinki and in 1994 an honorary senator of the University of Rostock .

literature

  • Franz-Heinrich Beyer , Helmut Fritzsche, Jens Langer (eds.): Resistance and contradiction. Theological existence today. Festschrift for Ernst-Rüdiger Kiesow on his 65th birthday; Rostock: University of Rostock, Theological Faculty, 1991.
  • Franz-Heinrich Beyer:  Ernst-Rüdiger Kiesow. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 25, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-332-7 , Sp. 691-696.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Hermann Michael Niemann: A man with qualities - memories of Ernst-Rüdiger Kiesow . In: Heinrich Holze (ed.): The theological faculty Rostock under two dictatorships, studies on history 1933–1989. Festschrift for Gert Haendler on his 80th birthday . Rostock Theological Studies 13; Lit, Berlin, Hamburg, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-6887-7 , pp. 355-360.
  • Friedemann Stengel: The theological faculties in the GDR as a problem of church and university policy of the SED state up to their transformation into sections in 1970/71 . Works on church and theological history, 3; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-374-01708-8 ; Pp. 427-430.

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personal data
SURNAME Kiesow, Ernst-Rüdiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönhagen
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2003
Place of death Rostock