Franz Segbers

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Franz Segbers at a panel discussion at the German Catholic Day 2016 in Leipzig

Franz Segbers (born August 8, 1949 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German Old Catholic theologian.

Career

Segbers studied Catholic theology , educational sciences and social sciences at the University of Münster . Until 1985 he was company chaplain in Frankfurt-Höchst. During this time he organized the first exchange programs between German and Brazilian employees and works councils of multinational corporations, some of which were initially heavily criticized by the unions. In 1985 he did his doctorate there on collective bargaining law and a socio-ethical assessment of strikes and lockouts to obtain a Dr. theol. In protest against the repression of the theology of liberation by the Vatican, Franz Segbers resigned from the Roman Catholic Church and joined the Old Catholic Church in 1986. After a short time as a parish priest in Heidelberg, he became a lecturer in theology and social ethics at the Evangelical Social Academy Friedewald in 1988. In 1999 he completed his habilitation at the Protestant theological department of the Philipps University of Marburg on the subject of the Torah house rules. Biblical impulses for a theological business ethics . In 2004 he was appointed adjunct professor for social ethics there.

In addition, Segbers has been a consultant for ethics and social policy in the Diakonisches Werk in Hesse and Nassau since 2002 and co-organizer of the protests and mass demonstrations against the cut policy of the Hessian Prime Minister Roland Koch in 2003. He is co-author and first signatory of the call by scientists against the "Kahlschlag im Social budget ”: Hessen must remain social . Segbers is co-author of the Hessian Social Charter, which was drawn up to protest against the social cuts and handed over to the Hessian state government with almost 4,000 signatures. He is a co-founder of the Hessian Social Forum. In 2005/2006 he was chairman of the League of Free Welfare Associations in Rhineland-Palatinate. With the DGB state chairman Stefan Körzell and the ASTA chairman Mike Joseph he was one of the plaintiffs at the Hessian State Court for the abolition of tuition fees. Since 2010 he has been the spokesman for the State Poverty Conference in Rhineland-Palatinate. Segbers is committed to the neoliberal transformation of the welfare state and is one of the founders of the sanctions moratorium.

Segbers is involved in the fight against neoliberal globalization and works with Marxist categories on a theological criticism of capitalism as a religion . In this sense, he was next to Ulrich Duchrow , Frank Crüsemann , Heino Falcke , Christian Felber , Kuno Füssel , Detlef Hensche , Ton Veerkamp , Karl Georg Zinn and others on Reformation Day 2008 . a. First signatory of the appeal Peace with Capital? A call against the adjustment of the Evangelical Church to the power of the economy . The appeal protests against the neoliberal turn of the EKD , which became evident in the memorandum Entrepreneurial Action in Evangelical Perspective (2008).

In 2008 he was visiting professor at Aglipay Theological Seminary in Urdaneta (Pangasinan) and at St. Paul's Theological Seminary in Guimaras (Philippines). Segbers was the coordinator of a working group of the Old Catholic Churches, the Iglesia Filipina Independiente and the Episcopal Church USA on the question of the connection between catholicity and globalization. In 2013 he gave a lecture on "Catholicity and Globalization" at the 10th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Busan / South Korea.

His main research interests include a. presents the topics of “future of work ” and “ globalization ” against the background of Christian social ethics .

Segbers assumes that full employment in the traditional sense will no longer exist. He pleads for a fair distribution of gainful employment and an appreciation of other social work. The material basis for this should be the unconditional basic income . He is therefore an honorary member of the scientific advisory board of the Basic Income Network , the German organization in the Basic Income Earth Network ( BIEN ).

Franz Segbers was nominated by the party Die Linke in the Hessian state parliament to be a member of the 15th Federal Assembly on March 18, 2012 for the election of the Federal President and was elected to the spokespersons of the LAG Left Christians in Hesse in 2015.

Fonts

  • Christian Gremmels, Franz Segbers (Ed.):
    • Unemployment - a challenge to the churches. Documents - Analyzes , Mainz-Munich 1979
    • At the place of work. Reports and interpretations , Mainz-Munich 1981
  • Strikes and lockouts are not the same. A socio-ethical assessment , with a foreword by Wilhelm Dreier , Cologne 1986 (Diss. Würzburg) - also published in the series of publications of the Otto Brenner Foundation No. 37
  • Jakob Moneta , Willibald Jacob , Franz Segbers (eds.), The religion of capitalism. The social effects of the total market , Franz Hinkelammert on his 60th birthday, Lucerne 1996
  • Uwe Becker, Franz Segbers, Michael Wiedemeyer (Eds.), Logic of the Economy - Crisis of Work. Impetus for a solidarity-based design of the working world , Mainz 2001
  • The house rules of the Torah. Biblical impulses for a theological business ethics , WBG Darmstadt 3rd edition 2002 ( online ; PDF; 2.5 MB)
  • Walter Hanesch, Karl Koch, Franz Segbers (eds.), Public Poverty in Prosperity. Social services under pressure to save , Hamburg 2004
  • Jürgen Klute , Franz Segbers, good work demands fair wages. Collective agreements for the churches , Hamburg 2006
  • Ulrich Duchrow , Franz Segbers (Ed.), Peace with Capital? Against the adaptation of the Evangelical Church to the power of the economy , Oberursel 2008
  • Wolfgang Gern , Franz Segbers (ed.), Referred to as a customer, treated as a beggar. Experiences from the Hartz IV world , Hamburg 2009, 12–34
  • Franz Segbers, Peter-Ben Smit (Ed.), Catholic in Times of Globalization. Memories of the martyr bishop Alberto Ramento , the bishop of the workers and peasants , Lucerne 2010 (Dutch 2011; French 2013)
  • Franz Segbers, Simon Wiesgickl (ed.), "This economy kills" (Pope Francis) churches together against capitalism , Hamburg 2015
  • Franz Segbers, Economy that Serves Life. Human rights as the basis of Christian business ethics , Neukirchen-Vluyn, Kevelaer 2015
  • Franz Segbers, How Poverty Violates Human Rights in Germany , Oberursel 2016
  • together with Michael Ramminger (ed.): " To overturn all conditions ... and to overthrow the mighty from their throne" The common legacy of Christians and Marx, Hamburg / Münster 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Let's get on our way. Steps towards international solidarity from German and Brazilian trade unionists, steps towards international solidarity from Brazilian and German trade unionists. A travel report, Mettingen (Brazil customer publisher) 1987 and: Franz Segbers, Solidarisch in der einer Welt. Walking attempts of the "Ecumenical Working Group International Solidarity", in: Th. Schmidt, Th. Wagner (ed.), Because there are people. In the footsteps of a cross-border commuter, Idstein, 1995, 177–198.
  2. ↑ See: Walter Hanesch, Karl Koch, Franz Segbers (ed.), Public Poverty in Prosperity. Social services under pressure to save, Hamburg 2004.
  3. ↑ www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktion/hessen2.pdf
  4. ↑ www.diakonie-hessen-nassau.de/DWHN/publikat/archallg/Sozialcharta.pdf ; as well as www.diakonie-hessen-nassau.de/DWHN/presse/archivpress/2005/Artikel/0105.pdf .
  5. ↑ www.sanktionsmoratorium.de
  6. ↑ Franz Segbers, Capitalism in the Crisis of Faith, in: Ilsegret Fink / Cornelia Hildebrandt (eds.), Fights for a world of solidarity. Theology of Liberation and Democratic Socialism in Dialogue, ( Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung ) Berlin 2010. online, from p. 90
  7. ↑ Documented in the volume Franz Segbers, Peter-Ben Smit (Ed.), Katholisch in Zeiten der Globalisierung. Memory of the martyr bishop Alberto Ramento, bishop of workers and peasants, Lucerne 2010.
  8. ^ Basic Income Network, Scientific Advisory Board , as of December 31, 2012.
  9. ↑ Hessian representatives for the Federal Assembly Some trade unionists, entrepreneurs and university teachers (FAZ)
  10. ↑ Press release: LAG founded on February 7th, 2015: LINKE CHRISTINNEN UND CHRISTIANS founded in Hesse
personal data
SURNAME Segbers, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Old Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen