Günter Ruddat

Günter Ruddat (born February 1, 1947 in Salzgitter - Hallendorf ) is a German Protestant theologian.

Life

After graduating from high school in Duisburg-Hamborn, Günter Ruddat studied Protestant theology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He completed his studies in the autumn of 1971 with the first theological exam and then completed the vicariate in the Bonn district of Beuel . At the same time, Ruddat initially worked as a research assistant , from 1972 to 1976 as a research assistant with Henning Schröer at the chair for practical theology of the Protestant Theological Faculty in Bonn. In the autumn of 1976 Ruddat passed the second theological exam and became pastor of the third district of the Protestant parish Leverkusen - Wiesdorf (St. Matthew's Church). After teaching religious education at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , Ruddat was appointed professor for practical theology in Bochum in 1991.

In 1991 he was appointed professor for practical theology in the department of religious and community education (later: community education and diakonia) at the Evangelical University of Applied Sciences Rhineland-Westphalia-Lippe in Bochum (successor to Günter Hegele), and in 2001 in parallel to the part-time professor for practical theology at the church University of Wuppertal (successor to Christine Reents), in 2008 he switched entirely to the merged Church University of Wuppertal / Bethel (successor to Michael Klessmann ) and took over the rectorate from 2009 to 2010.

In 1993 Günter Ruddat received his doctorate with a paper on religious instruction in the auxiliary school from the beginnings to 1945 at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn.

Ruddat has been chairman of the Standing Committee on Last Supper, Worship, Feasts and Celebrations (AGoFF) and a member of the Presidential Assembly of the German Evangelical Church Congress (DEKT) since 1997. a. Liturgical days for people like Martin Luther King , Dietrich Bonhoeffer , Albert Schweitzer , Ernst Lange , Martin Niemöller or special liturgical formats like the missa poetica for Marie Luise Kaschnitz or Hilde Domin .

Ruddat is a member of the Joint Presidium for the 2nd Ecumenical Church Congress (ÖKT) in Munich 2010 and - as at the 1st ÖKT Berlin 2003 - headed the church service coordination group from the Protestant side.

Ruddat has been married to the bookseller Kriemhild Ruddat since 1972, the couple have four grown children.

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Ruddat in the catalog of the German National Library
• Detailed curriculum vitae and current publications on the homepage of the KiHo Wuppertal / Bethel