Ernst Petzold

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Ernst Gottfried Petzold (born March 27, 1930 in Leipzig ; † January 21, 2017 ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian , pastor , senior church councilor and director of the Diakonisches Werk in the GDR.

Life

Petzold attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig and was a member of the St. Thomas Choir under Günther Ramin from 1940 to 1948 . Until the spring of 1951 he sang as a guest in the St. Thomas Choir.

After graduating from high school, he studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig . He worked as a pastor in Mutzschen- Ragewitz and Meißen (St. Afra). From 1965 he was head of the regional church office for internal mission and authorized representative of the aid organization of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Saxony . In 1976 he took over the position of director of the Diakonisches Werk of the Evangelical Churches in the GDR. In 1981 he was with the dissertation eschatology as impulse and as a rectification of the service of the saving love, shown in theology Johann Hinrich Wichern to Dr. theol. PhD. From 1990 to 1995 he was Vice President of the Diakonisches Werk (DW) of the Evangelical Church in Berlin. From 1988 to 1992 he was President of the International Association for Internal Mission and Diakonia (from 1989 European Association for Diakonia).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tagesspiegel January 29, 2017, p. 14.
  2. ↑ Silentium is only said by the great. A feature by Henry Bernhard. Radio broadcast on MDR Figaro on March 14, 2012 (directed by Nikolai von Koslowski)
  3. ^ University archive Leipzig, personal files, doctorates up to 1991, signature: WR 1981/113

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personal data
SURNAME Petzold, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petzold, Ernst Gottfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, pastor, senior church councilor and director of the Diakonisches Werk in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2017