Giselher Quast

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Cathedral preacher Giselher Quast (2008)

Giselher Quast (born July 28, 1951 in Dresden ) was cathedral preacher at Magdeburg Cathedral from 1979 to 2016 .

Life

Giselher Quast was born the fifth child of a pastor , is married and has one son. From 1961 and 1976 he sang in the Magdeburg Cathedral Choir and learned to play the organ . Quast refused as a convinced pacifist the military service and any alternative service . After he was not admitted to theology studies in 1970 , he passed a special matriculation examination at the church proseminar in Naumburg (Saale) and studied theology at the church college . From 1975 to 1977 Quast was vicar in Magdeburg and from 1977 to 1979 pastor in Eilenburg . From 1979 Giselher Quast was cathedral preacher at Magdeburg Cathedral.

Because of his dedicated work in youth and community work , Quast was spied on by Stasi employees . 1980 and 1988 were two plants in the Operational security check of the Stasi because pacifist influence the youth and favoring of requests to move created. In addition, the prayers for peace in Magdeburg Cathedral were infiltrated by Stasi employees.

Quast was the initiator of the Monday demonstrations in Magdeburg in 1989 and on November 6, 1989 led a citizens' forum with 60,000 participants on the Alter Markt in Magdeburg.

Quast often appears in public with media-effective campaigns. In 2002 he invited the fans and those in charge of the then insolvency-threatened 1. FC Magdeburg to a march of hope in the cathedral, in cooperation with animal welfare associations he gave several sermons to animals and their owners, in 2005 there was an exhibition with pictures by the artist Dieter M. Weidenbach took place in Magdeburg Cathedral. Quast was the first signatory to the call for international trial observation in the so-called Halim Dener trial. He was also a member of the Flood Aid Board of Trustees , headed by former Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker .

At the events for the Day of German Unity 2003, an ecumenical service was held under the direction of Quast , in which Federal Chancellor Schröder , Federal President Rau and Prime Minister Böhmer took part.

Quast is committed to the compatibility of religion and science . In 2002, for example, the Foucault Pendulum was set up in Magdeburg Cathedral, in 2003 the exhibition GEWISSENlos - GEWISSENhaft - Human experiments in the concentration camp of the Medical Faculty of the Otto von Guericke University , and in 2005 it supported Magdeburg's application to become the City of Science . He was committed to the new construction of the cathedral organ and is the patron of the citizens' initiative “Pro Elbe” . On 25/26 In June 2016, Quast retired.

Awards

  • 1990: Medal of Honor "Awakening '89" from the city of Magdeburg
  • 2002: Magdeburg of the year
  • 2016: Honorary Ambassador of the Ottostadt Magdeburg
  • 2017: Ring of honor of the state capital Magdeburg
  • 2017: Federal Cross of Merit 1st class

literature

  • with Reinhard Winkler, Hans-Jürgen Jerratsch: The Cathedral of Magdeburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 978-3-422-02159-4 .
  • with Hans-Jürgen Jerratsch, Constantin Beyer: The Cathedral of Magdeburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-422-06389-7 .
  • with Jürgen M. Pietsch: The Magdeburg Cathedral. Edition Schwarz Weiss, Spröda 2005, ISBN 3-00-015279-2 .
  • with Verena Friedrich: Magdeburg - St. Mauritius Cathedral and Katharinen. Peda, Passau 2014, ISBN 978-3-89643-940-6 .
  • Moving and moving - memorandum on the farewell to cathedral preacher Giselher Quast. Ed. Parish Council of the Evangelical Cathedral Community 2016, ISBN 978-386289-135-1 .
  • At the time and at the wrong time - sermons from Magdeburg Cathedral. Stekovics, Wettin 2016, ISBN 978-3-89923-359-9 .

Web links

Commons : Giselher Quast  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prime Minister Haseloff presented the Federal Order of Merit on the Saxony-Anhalt state portal, August 11, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Quast, Giselher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman, cathedral preacher of Magdeburg Cathedral
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden