Günter Johannsen
Günter Johannsen (born May 4, 1950 in Leipzig ) is a Protestant deacon and social worker . In 1982 he was one of the initiators of the Monday peace prayers in Leipzig .
Life
In connection with the protests against the demolition of the Leipzig University Church in 1968, Johannsen was arrested by the State Security and interrogated for twelve hours; This was followed by a conviction and six weeks' imprisonment for "defamation of the state" and "inciting disobedience". His lawyer Marianne Brendel obtained a cassatorial decision or acquittal from the Supreme Court of the GDR for procedural errors and unfounded charges. From 1974 to 1979 Johannsen completed a deacon training in Moritzburg and Eisenach .
At the time when the Peace Prayer was founded in 1982, Johannsen was a youth deacon in the East Leipzig Church District. In autumn 1982 he initiated the Monday peace prayer together with his “ Junge Gemeinde ” in Leipzig-Probstheida as a permanent facility. In the period that followed, he received several subpoenas from the Ministry for State Security (MfS) to “clarify a matter”. In 1984 there was a change of office in the evangelical church district Bad Freienwalde (Oder) in the regional church Berlin-Brandenburg. Johannsen worked there as a district youth warden until 1991. During the time of reunification, Johannsen was initially a member of “ Demokratie Jetzt ”, then in October 1989 he founded the SDP district association with four teachers from the EOS -Bad Freienwalde . Johannsen was then part-time also the district association chairman of the SDP, which became the SPD after the unification party conference in Leipzig .
From May 1990, Johannsen became a member of the SPD district council of the Bad Freienwalde district and chairman of the committee for law-security-order, which mainly dealt with cleaning up the public service of MfS employees and SED functionaries who were burdened . Between 1993 and 1998 he was district youth warden in the Evangelical Church District of Güstrow . Since 1998 Johannsen has been working in the Evangelical Child and Youth Welfare Service Feldkirchen , a curative educational institution in Feldkirchen near Munich, as a social pedagogue in the educational service - since 2011 in the outpatient educational assistance (AEH) of the same institution as a social educational family helper (SPFH) and educational advisor (EB). After the SPD decided in 2014 to enter into a coalition with the SED successor party Die Linke in the state of Thuringia under its “leading role”, Johannsen declared his resignation in October 2014 after 25 years of membership in the SPD.
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles S. Maier: Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany . Princeton University Press , 1999, ISBN 0-691-00746-2 , pp. 139 .
- ↑ Chronicle of the prayers for peace and the politically alternative groups in Leipzig. Archive Citizens Movement Leipzig eV, accessed on January 11, 2010 .
- ↑ See Leipziger Volkszeitung from June 8, 2009: Leader versus Weißgerber , archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Cf. Church Office of the EKD: 20 Years of Peaceful Revolution - Materials for Church Services and Community Events , p. 13, PDF, 435 kB .
- ↑ See Society for Contemporary History: Friedensgebete .
literature
- Hermann Geyer: Nikolaikirche, Mondays at five: the political services of the time of the fall in Leipzig . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 2007 (University of Leipzig, Habil.-Schr. 2006), ISBN 978-3-534-18482-8 , table of contents .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Johannsen, Günter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Protestant deacon and social worker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4th 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |