Günter Mieth (theologian)

Günter Mieth (born August 28, 1929 in Leipzig ; † March 28, 2018 in Detmold ) was a German Protestant pastor , superintendent and honorary citizen of the city of Zwickau .

Life

Mieth met his future wife Margarete in Erlangen in 1951 , with whom he moved to the GDR three years later because they felt they were “needed there”. After completing his theology studies , he was ordained in Flöha in 1956 and worked there as a pastor. In 1959 he moved to Lengefeld and in 1964 to the Trinitatiskirche in Dresden-Johannstadt . In 1970 he became superintendent of the Evangelical Lutheran church district of Zwickau . In 1989, during the peaceful revolution , he made sure that prayers for peace took place in almost all churches . He was one of the threeModerators of the round table in Zwickau, which also opened this form of dialogue on December 19, 1989 in the Zwickau cathedral parish hall. He was also a co-founder of the Zwickau city mission . After he retired on September 1, 1994, he moved to Detmold. In 2000 he became an honorary citizen of Zwickau.

Günter and Margarete Mieth had three daughters.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Frank Dörfelt: Honorary citizen Günter Mieth died . In: Free Press, Zwickauer Zeitung . April 4, 2018, p. 9 ( online ).
↑ ^a ^b Dieter Schnaas: 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall: Germany unites a patchwork quilt . In: WirtschaftsWoche . November 9, 2009, ISSN 0042-8582 ( online ).
^ Werner Walther, supplemented by Lengefeld city administration: Evangelical pastors of Lengefeld from 1540. In: daten2.verwaltungsportal.de. Retrieved April 13, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Mieth, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pastor, superintendent and honorary citizen of Zwickau
DATE OF BIRTH	August 28, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	March 28, 2018
Place of death	Detmold

[FP-1] Frank Dörfelt: Honorary citizen Günter Mieth died . In: Free Press, Zwickauer Zeitung . April 4, 2018, p. 9 ( online ).

[WW-2] Dieter Schnaas: 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall: Germany unites a patchwork quilt . In: WirtschaftsWoche . November 9, 2009, ISSN 0042-8582 ( online ).

[Lengefeld-3] Werner Walther, supplemented by Lengefeld city administration: Evangelical pastors of Lengefeld from 1540. In: daten2.verwaltungsportal.de. Retrieved April 13, 2018 .