Günter Altner

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Günter Altner (born September 20, 1936 in Breslau ; † December 6, 2011 ) was a German biologist and Protestant theologian .

Life

Altner was the son of a chemist and grew up in Opladen from the age of one to graduation . His older brother is the biologist and former Regensburg university rector Helmut Altner (* 1934), his younger brother is a landscape architect . Günter Altner studied Protestant theology and biology in Wuppertal, Göttingen, Mainz and Gießen.

Since 1961 active in the academy work of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , from 1968 to 1971 he was head of studies for border issues in the field of theology and natural sciences at the Evangelical Academy in Mülheim an der Ruhr . In 1971, Günter Altner was appointed full professor of human biology at the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education , but already in 1973 he switched to the research institute of the Evangelical Study Group (FEST) in Heidelberg . From 1977 until his retirement in 1999 Altner was professor for Protestant theology with a focus on systematic theology and social ethics at the University of Koblenz-Landau . From 1979 to 1982 he was a member of the Enquete Commission for Future Energy Policy of the German Bundestag, from 1999 to 2002 a member of the ethics advisory board at the Federal Ministry of Health. Altner, who was one of the co-founders of the Freiburg Öko-Institut in 1977 , was critical of genetic engineering and in 1987 demanded that it no longer be promoted with public funds. Altner also called for a ban on the release of genetically modified organisms and a total ban on biological weapons at international level. Altner last lived in Berlin .

Publications (selection)

  • Faith in creation and the idea of development in Protestant theology between Ernst Haeckel and Teilhard de Chardin , 1964 DNB 482350954 (Dissertation University of Göttingen , Theological Faculty, October 18, 1964, III, 200 pages).
  • Creation on the Abyss - Theology before the environmental question. Neukichener Verlag. Neukirchen-Vluyn 1972. ISBN 3-7887-0390-3 .
  • Between nature and human history. Perspectives for a New Theology of Creation. Chr. Kaiser Verlag. Munich 1975.
  • Survival crisis of the present. Approaches to dialogue with nature in natural science and theology. Scientific book society. Darmstadt 1987.
  • Ecology, society, environmental science. My way into the perspective of sustainability. unibuch Verlag, Lüneburg 2000, ISBN 978-3-934900-05-9 (= Lüneburg University Speeches , Issue 4).

Festschrift for Günter Altner

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Wanner: "Let problems fascinate me" , Mittelbayerische Zeitung , July 26, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Learning to fear and trembling again"
personal data
SURNAME Altner, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2011
Place of death Berlin