Günther Walter

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Günther Walter, a founder of the KPE, federal field master from 1976 to 2005 and author of several KPE publications

Günther Walter (* 1934 ) is a German boy scout . Together with Andreas Hönisch, he is the founder of the European Catholic Scouting Association in Germany and Austria .

Life

Günther Walter joined the “Austrian Scouts” in Salzburg in 1946 at the age of twelve and later became field master there. In September 1954 in Germany he made the Knight's Promise of the German Scout Society of St. Georg in the St. Leonhard Church in Frankfurt. He later acquired the Woodbadge and worked in the state leadership of the Diocese of Mainz .

Co-founder of the European Catholic Scouting Association (KPE)

On February 15, 1976, Walter and Andreas Hönisch founded the Catholic Scouting Association of Europe (KPE) in Fortbach near Gießen. It was mainly people who came together here who did not agree with the programmatic innovations within the German Scouting Association Saint George in the 1970s. The weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit states that the founding of the KPE by Günther Walter and Andreas Hönisch had one main reason: “The aversion to the spirit of 1968, which from their point of view also led to 'lazy' compromises with the zeitgeist in Catholic youth associations would have". Among other things, it disrupted the coeducation that was introduced around the same time as the student movement, i.e. the common upbringing of boys and girls, as well as reformist and emancipatory currents.

Children and adolescents in the KPE are also currently listed in special girls and boys groups. Walter takes the view that it is most important that everyone in the KPE "aligns their life compass and always realigns it to Jesus Christ and his Holy Mother". The pack is a place for the wolves where they can get to know Jesus as their best friend. The pack of wolves is like a second family for the children. Of course, the pack does not replace the right family, the scouting is an additional offer and complement. The basic program of the Catholic Scouting Society of Europe states that man was created to praise God in prayer and active love, to show him reverence and to serve in order to contribute to the building of the kingdom of God. The aim is "holistic education for Christian personalities". The KPE places itself - according to its self-image - under the special protection of the Blessed Mother and consecrates itself to her. The Catholic Scouting Union of Europe states in its support text for the Mission Manifesto that it has the goal that "Mission becomes priority number 1". The KPE was repeatedly suspected of having fundamentalist and sect-like structures.

In the autumn of 2003, Günther Walter - at that time Federal Field Master of the KPE - referred in an article to the anti-Semitic book The Frankfurter Schule and its corrosive effects by the NPD politician Rolf Kosiek , published by Hohenrain Verlag . In 2003, the Weltenburg abbot Thomas Niggl OSB supported the right-wing extremist German study community in an article in the quarterly magazine of the Catholic Scouts of Europe (KPE) by adopting and disseminating the DSG's political theses on Germany.

The ARD magazine Monitor reported on it in 2004. In the summer of 2004, the German Bishops' Conference distanced itself from the KPE, according to the ARD program Monitor . The editorial team received the answer that the KPE is not an “officially recognized youth association”.

Hans-Gerd Jaschke from the Berlin School of Economics and Law stated in a monitor broadcast in 2004 that he had found references to Christian fundamentalism, ethnic nationalism and anti-Semitic allusions in KPE publications . He was referring to the KPE magazine pathfinder Mariens , in which the Benedictine Thomas Niggl, a member of the Engelwerk , had claimed in spring 2003 as a guest author on the subject of demographic change: “One cannot doubt that the German people in his biological-ethnic existence and its cultural religious identity is seriously threatened ”. Jaschke explained: "One must clearly emphasize that the latter two parts [...] are congruent with modern right-wing radicalism". In the same article, Niggl disseminated theses of the right-wing extremist German study community , which he praised as "valuable suggestions". In the program, previous and then members also expressed themselves.

At the end of 2011, the KPE took a position on the various allegations. Your federal management expressly distanced itself from right-wing extremist ideas and anti-Semitism. In religious questions, special doctrines that deviate from the general doctrine of the church are fundamentally rejected for them, as well as pressure and coercion as pedagogical methods of conveying the faith. Connections to the Engelwerk - both organizational and content-related - were emphatically denied. The accusation of anti-Semitism had previously been confirmed by a court in Vienna and taken up again by the German news magazine Der Spiegel along with the classification of the KPE as “fundamentalist”.

Günther Walter stated on March 7, 2017, referring to his recommendation of the book, which is considered to be right-wing extremist, that the reference to Kosiek had got into the text due to his negligence. He only read parts of the book; In his opinion, the chapter on the history of the Frankfurt School contained a few pages with “interesting factual information”; the author's background was unknown to him. The article by Niggl was taken over by the editorial team in 2003 because of time pressure without checking the content and in ignorance of the German study community. Walter apologizes to the KPE and the readers of the Scouts of Mary and expressly distances himself from right-wing extremist and anti-Semitic ideas. The statement is no longer available on the kpe.de website, which was revised in autumn 2017. In the said Walter chapter Kosiek took several times for incitement convicted Holocaust deniers Udo Walendy into custody and referred to the serious historical research as "re-education prevailing opinion." The website of the German Study Association, which identified Rolf Kosiek as a member of its executive committee, was online as early as 2001; the 2001 report on the protection of the constitution, which has been available on the Internet since 2002, mentions Kosiek's book under “Right-wing extremist efforts”. Walter's article, in which Kosiek's book is recommended, continued to circulate on the Internet (as of October 2018).

The KPE, which was co-founded by Günther Walter, is presented in the specialist literature as an elitist group that wants to lead the Catholic Church back to a conservative course. It positions itself against the relaxation of the Second Vatican Council . According to the KPE, the Church, like the rest of the Western world, is suffering from a moral decline. The apocalypse threatens as punishment.

Activity in the Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d'Europe (UIGSE-FSE)

Günther Walter was deputy to the national field champion and vice-president of the Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d'Europe (UIGSE-FSE). This refers to the original ideas of Baden-Powell and rejects large parts of the modernizations since 1960. One focus of the work is religious education. The UIGSE advocates a gender-specific upbringing and relies on the “differentiated upbringing of girls and boys within the different groups as an essential point of their pedagogy”. The UIGSE sees itself as a Catholic association, which in certain cases also accepts associations of other Christian denominations .

Activity as a teacher and school director

Günther Walter worked as a civil servant in higher education in the teaching post as senior studies director (OStD) and for 15 years was the school director of the Heinrich von Gagern grammar school in Frankfurt am Main . He started in this position on August 28, 1984 and was passed on June 23, 1999. The farewell greeting from the Hessian Ministry of Culture and the State Education Office followed two days later.

Walter was a member of the Hessischer Philologenverband eV , a rather conservative association for high school teachers.

literature

  • Günther Walter: Your clan, cornet . 2nd expanded edition. SJM-Verlag, Neusäß 2002. ISBN 978-3-932426-22-3
  • Alfred Pokorn / Günther Walter: Pathfinder manual , 5th expanded and completely revised edition. SJM-Verlag, Neusäß 2010. ISBN 978-3-932426-02-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günther Brand: 30 Years of the KPE Scouts - Part 1 - Founding, Review + Information. (PDF) Retrieved March 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Günther Walter: How the KPE came about. Retrieved March 4, 2018 .
  3. ^ Pedagogical concept of the Catholic Scouting Society in Europe . Catholic Scouting Association in Europe, accessed on March 4, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Christian Schwiesselmann: The Catholic Scouts of Europe sees itself as part of a large family. In: Young Freedom. Retrieved on March 4, 2018 (German).
  5. ↑ 30 years of KPE scouts - part 1 - founding, review + information. (PDF) Günther Brand, accessed on March 3, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Information page of the Scouting Boy Scout and Youth Movement. Paul-Thomas Hinkel, accessed on March 4, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Catholic Scouting of Europe. (PDF) KPE, accessed on March 4, 2018 .
  8. ↑ What the future of the KPE looks like - from the point of view of our founder Günther Walter. (PDF) European Catholic Scouting, accessed on March 4, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b European Catholic Scouting: Wölflinge - our best. Retrieved March 4, 2018 .
  10. ^ Basic program of the Catholic Scouting Society in Europe. Catholic Scouting of Europe, accessed March 4, 2018 .
  11. ↑ The KPE - our self-image as a Catholic Scout Association. (PDF) European Catholic Scouting, accessed on March 4, 2018 .
  12. ↑ The KPE - our self-image as a Catholic Scout Association. (PDF) European Catholic Scouting, accessed on March 4, 2018 .
  13. ^ Mission Manifesto. Catholic Scouting of Europe, accessed March 4, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Victims of the Boy Scouts: They wanted to drive out the devil from me. In: Wochenblatt. Retrieved March 4, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Michael Koch: Servant of God in combat boots. In: Focus. Retrieved March 4, 2018 .
  16. ^ A b Günther Walter: Germany, quo vadis? Pathfinder of Mary 2003/4, p. 4 f. Accessed December 14, 2018
  17. ↑ For the anti-Semitic content of the book see Heribert Schiedel and Stephan Grigat : Burschis gegen Adorno. haGalil from October 28, 2004
  18. ↑ Catholic Fundamentalism: Scouts on the wrong track. (PDF; 82 kB) ARD Monitor (July 22, 2004), archived from the original on September 8, 2012 ; Retrieved September 23, 2009 .
  19. ↑ Thomas Niggl: Germany's future. In: Pathfinder of Mary, 2nd quarter 2003, p. 3 f
  20. ↑ Urtext: Felix Buck , Albrecht Jebens , Rolf Kosiek , Uwe Rheingans , Günter Poser , Edmund Sawall , Walter Staffa : German Study Community: Confession to the German People. ( Memento of December 10, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ↑ State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Baden-Württemberg : Verfassungsschutzbericht 2003, p. 95 f
  22. ↑ a b Catholic Fundamentalism: Scouts on the wrong track. (PDF; 82 kB) ARD-Monitor , July 22, 2004, archived from the original on September 8, 2012 ; Retrieved September 23, 2009 . Pages 1 ff
  23. ↑ Heiner Boberski : The angel work . Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1993, p. 235
  24. ↑ a b Catholic Fundamentalism: Scouts on the wrong track. (PDF; 82 kB) ARD Monitor (July 22, 2004), archived from the original on September 8, 2012 ; Retrieved September 23, 2009 . page 4
  25. ↑ On the situation of the people. ( Memento of December 10, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) German study group, undated. All theses and the summary are identical to Niggl's statements.
  26. ^ Felix Buck , Rolf Kosiek and Uwe Rheingans (both NPD ) as well as Albrecht Jebens (formerly CDU ), Günter Poser (formerly REP ), Edmund Sawall and Walter Staffa : German Study Community: Confession to the German People. ( Memento of December 10, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) September 2001. Introduction and thesis 5 are identical to Niggl's statements.
  27. ↑ Thomas Niggl: Germany's future. In: Pathfinder of Mary, 2003/2, p. 3 f. Niggl preceded his statements: "The German Study Association (DSG) (Postfach 1701, 71207 Leonberg) has made valuable suggestions about this: (...)"
  28. ↑ For the classification of the German Study Group, see the Baden-Württemberg Constitutional Protection Report 2003, p. 189 ( Memento from January 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  29. ↑ Clarifications on allegations against the KPE in: Ad Mariam Europa No. 38 / December 2011, 9-18.
  30. ↑ For judicial confirmation, see "Răspopiţi" catolici din Austria păcătuiesc în România. Adevărul , May 4, 2010
  31. ↑ Catholic Scouting of Europe: Correction and Correction. ( Memento of March 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) March 7, 2017 and deletion note ( Memento of October 5, 2017 in the web archive archive.today ) accessed on October 5, 2017
  32. ↑ Rolf Kosiek: The Frankfurt School and its corrosive effects. Hohenrain Verlag Tübingen 2001, pp. 74 ff, ISBN 978-3-89180-061-4
  33. ↑ Hans-Henning Scharsach : Strache: In the brown swamp. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau 2012, ISBN 978-3-218-00856-3 , file on Google Books
  34. ↑ Welcome to the German Study Group. Recording of the website in the web archive from February 19, 2001 ( Memento from February 19, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
  35. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior : Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2001. p. 2 on online availability and p. 128 on Kosiek's activities on the University of Tübingen's website
  36. ↑ The apocalypse threatens as punishment. Documentation Center for the Daylight, Prof. Dr. Johannes Ludwig, University of Applied Sciences (HAW) Hamburg, accessed on March 4, 2018 .
  37. ↑ 30 years of KPE scouts - part 1 - founding, review + information. (PDF) Günther Brand, accessed on March 3, 2018 .
  38. ↑ http://uigse-fse.org/fr/statuts/ Federal Statute of the Union International des Guides et Scouts d'Europe Fédération du Scoutisme Européen, 1.2.8.
  39. ^ A b Association of Alumni and Friends of the Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium ( Memento from March 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (formerly Kaiser-Friedrich-Gymnasium) eV August 21, 1999
  40. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from March 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German co-founder of the European Catholic Scouting Association in Germany and Austria
DATE OF BIRTH 1934