Günter Krusche

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Günter Krusche (2011)
At the sermon on the Kirchentag on June 24, 1987 in the Erlöserkirche Berlin-Lichtenberg

Günter Krusche (born February 25, 1931 in Dresden , † July 5, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor , church teacher and general superintendent of East Berlin . When his work as an unofficial employee of the GDR State Security became known in 1992 , he was transferred to retirement.

Life

Krusche came from an ecclesiastical family home, his father was a church employee. After taking his Abitur in Radebeul , he studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig from 1949 to 1954 . When he had passed the second theological exam in the seminary of Lückendorf , he was ordained a pastor in 1956 . He then worked as a pastor in Taucha for some time before he was appointed to Lückendorf as a study inspector . From 1966 to 1969 he was a consultant in the regional church office of Saxony and a pastor in Dresden, then until 1974 director of studies in Lückendorf.

From 1970 he worked on the study commission of the Lutheran World Federation . In 1974 he was appointed lecturer for practical theology at the Sprachenkonvikt in Berlin. In 1983, Krusche was appointed general superintendent of the Berlin district of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg as the successor to Hartmut Grünbaum . In the same year he was at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig to the doctor of theology doctorate . In the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR , he participated in its “Human Rights” working group.

In 1989 he was one of the first to sign the appeal “ For our country ” for the preservation of a socialist GDR and against German reunification .

In 1991 Krusche was elected to the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches . Since 1992 he has worked on the board of trustees of the Gossner Mission . When his work as an unofficial employee of the State Security became known in 1992 , Krusche was given early retirement.

He then took part with lectures as well as contributions in books and magazines on contemporary church history.

Krusche is a second cousin of the former Hamburg Bishop Peter Krusche .

Opponents of the GDR opposition and employees of the state security

Krusche claimed that he supported socially critical groups in the church during the GDR era. According to Ehrhart Neubert and Thomas Klein , Krusche had become an opponent of opposition groups in the mid-1980s and politically damaged them considerably. Krusche spoke out against opposition groups in a West German magazine in 1988. Krusche wanted to take away the ecclesiastical scope for action from the opposition. In 1986 he personally hung up posters from the opposition magazine Grenzfall at the stand of the Peace and Human Rights Initiative , which documented human rights violations in Romania, and in 1987 banned the peace workshop entirely. Since the late 1960s he had conversations with the Ministry for State Security and worked as an unofficial employee under the code name "Günter" without the knowledge of the church . His stasis was revealed by the dissident Ralf Hirsch while studying his own Stasi files.

Publications

  • Sociological Aspects . In: Joachim Rogge , Gottfried Schille (Ed.): Theological attempts III. Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1971
  • The theological relevance of the situation for the proclamation of the Gospel . In: Joachim Rogge, Gottfried Schille (Hrsg.): Theological Trials V. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1975
  • Unity and plurality of the Church . In: Joachim Rogge, Gottfried Schille (Ed.): Theological Attempts XI. Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1979.
  • Confession and global responsibility. The Lutheran World Federation's ecclesiology study (1973–77), a contribution to ecumenical social ethics . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1986 (also Diss. A, University of Leipzig 1983).
  • ... and I want to live with you . Evangelical Main Bible Society, Berlin 1987.
  • Pastoral care between adaptation and denial. A chapter of political pastoral care in the GDR . Issue 5 (March 1989)
  • The prophetic guardianship. The future role of the church . In: Hubertus Knabe (Ed.): Departure in another GDR. Reformers and opposition leaders on the future of their country. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-499-12607-9 , pp. 98-106.
  • "All people are free and equal" - the church at the side of the oppressed (= ecumenical action and reflection processes of the churches in the GDR - Volume 2 of the three-volume work: Ecumenical action and reflection processes of the churches in the GDR , edited by Gottfried Orth . Ecumenical Studies , Volume 7). Ernst Lange Institute for Ecumenical Studies, Rothenburg ob der Tauber 1998, ISBN 3-928617-21-4 .
  • Exciting times. Experiences and experiences as general superintendent of the Sprengels Berlin from 1989-1993. In: Yearbook for Berlin-Brandenburg Church History 66, 2007, pp. 354–397.

literature

Web links

Commons : Günter Krusche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography Günter Krusche on  jugendopposition.de  ( Federal Center for Civic Education  /  Robert Havemann Society  eV), viewed on March 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ Günter Krusche in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  3. ↑ Exciting times. Experiences u. Experience as general superintendent of the Berlin district from 1989–1993. In: Jb. For Berlin-Brandenburg. Church history. Berlin 2007. p. 365 ff.
  4. ↑ a b Ehrhart Neubert: History of the Opposition in the GDR: 1949–1989 , Ch. Links Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-86153-163-0 . P. 805.
  5. ↑ Thomas Klein : “Peace and Justice!”: The politicization of the independent peace movement in East Berlin during the 1980s , p. 184
  6. ^ Grenzfall on  jugendopposition.de  ( Federal Agency for Civic Education  /  Robert Havemann Society  eV), viewed on March 15, 2017.
  7. ↑ Ehrhart Neubert : History of the Opposition in the GDR: 1949–1989 , Ch. Links Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-86153-163-0 . P. 578
  8. ^ Ehrhart Neubert:  Krusche, Günter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  9. ↑ EKD before new debate about involvement in the Stasi. In: welt.de . May 14, 1997, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Christoph Dieckmann: Dictatorship and Church: Drinking coffee with your opponent . In: The time . No. 10/1992 ( online ).
  11. ↑ kontextverlag.de
predecessor Office Successor
Hartmut Grünbaum General superintendent for Berlin
( initially only Berlin East )
1982–1993 		Ingrid Laudien
personal data
SURNAME Krusche, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and unofficial employee of the GDR State Security
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 5th july 2016
Place of death Berlin