Giselher Hickel

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Giselher Hickel (* 1943 in Bromberg ) is a German Protestant pastor and theologian .

Life

Hickel studied Protestant theology at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and became a priest ordained . After serving as a parish priest in Leipzig, he became a state youth officer for student work in Saxony. After that he was released from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony in 1978 to serve as General Secretary of the Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe . Since 1982 he has worked for the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR , initially as a specialist consultant for the Ecumenical Youth Service (ÖJD), and since 1982 as managing director of the Ecumenical Diakonia specialist working group . He was an unofficial employee of the State Security and reported to the Stasi under the code name "Kiesel".

After the church federation was dissolved in 1991, he resigned from the church, worked for two years as a socio-educational employee of the juvenile court assistance in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen and since 1994 as a cemetery worker at the Dorotheenstadt cemetery .

Hickel was a member of the Christian Peace Conference for many years and worked for it on a voluntary basis in various functions at national and international level, most recently since 1999 as acting secretary of the CFK's international coordination committee. In this position he was responsible for the liquidation of the international CFK, which was forced for legal and economic reasons.

Hickel is active in the Dutch Ecumenical Congregation in Berlin and is a member of the board of the Association of Friends of the Hendrik Kraemer House e. V.

Hickel lives in Berlin, is married and has three children. Since mid-March 2010 he has been in Palestine , where he works as a member of a program of the World Council of Churches : “ Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel ” (EAPPI; Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel).

Works

  • Dorotheenstädtischer Kirchhof. With Fritz, Margarete. - EL Berlin 2002, 1st edition.
  • On the value of the experience of failure. Erev-Rav, Association for Biblical and Political Education, Wittingen 1996
  • East and West - challenged for more justice in the world economy . Publishing Services in Übersee, Hamburg 1989
  • Living God's Option for the Poor - About the future of work in the Hendrik Kraemer House , in: Horst Dohle / Joachim Heise / Rimco Spanjer (eds.), See history in the face. For Bé Ruys' 80th birthday . Autobiographical sketches, memories and reflections

As editor

Essays

  • The social revolution is still pending. Review of: Axelle Kabou , Neither poor nor powerless. A pamphlet against black elites and white helpers , Lenos 2001
  • On the understanding of the church in the EKD memorandum: Common good and self-interest

literature

  • Manfred Karnetzki : Review: Giselher Hickel, Theology in the Context of the Wende - On the value of the experience of failure . Wittingen, Erev-Rav, Association for Biblical and Political Education 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hubertus Knabe: The infiltrated republic. Propylaea, 1999, ISBN 9783549055892 limited preview in the Google book search
  2. ↑ Heike Krohn: The Cemetery (PDF file)
  3. ^ Hendrik Kraemer House and Dutch Ecumenical Congregation. (No longer available online.) In: hendrik-kraemer-haus.de. Archived from the original on October 25, 2014 ; accessed on January 1, 2015 .
  4. ^ Notes from Bethlehem (I), March 30, 2010; Circular letter in the BrThomas private archive
  5. ↑ Brochure in honor of Carl Ordnungs ( Memento from January 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ reflect! In: reflect-online.org. June 3, 2014, accessed January 1, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Weißensee sheets. In: weissenseerblaetter.de. Retrieved January 1, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Hickel, Giselher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg