Hans-Joachim Döring

Hans-Joachim Döring

Hans-Joachim Döring (born September 15, 1954 in Dahlen (Saxony) ) is a German religious educator who has worked in the fields of development cooperation, the environment and sustainability and was shaped by the conciliar process .

Live and act

Professional training and activity in the GDR

After completing school as a geology specialist with high school diploma in Johanngeorgenstadt and Leipzig in 1973, Hans-Joachim Döring wanted to study geology, hydrology or biology. Since he was denied this, he studied Protestant child and youth work in Moritzburg near Dresden from 1975 to 1979 and graduated as a religious educator.

From 1980 to 1986 he worked as a youth deacon at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. During this time he and Günter Johannsen founded the peace and Monday prayers in the Nikolaikirche in the autumn of 1982 . During this time, Döring also dealt with literature. In 1980 he was awarded a poetry prize at the Poetenseminar in Schwerin and shortly thereafter was banned from publishing. In 1982 he was enrolled at the Leipzig Literature Institute and de-registered in the same year.

Development policy engagement in an ecumenical context

Hans-Joachim Döring's professional life is closely linked to the conciliar process for justice, peace and the integrity of creation . From 1987 to 1996 Döring was managing director of the ecumenical network INKOTA in Berlin . INKOTA stands for INformation, KOordination, TAgungen on problems in the two-thirds world . The network was founded by people and groups from around Lothar Kreyssig and the Action Group for the Hungry in Halle in 1971 under the motto “A start against world poverty”. Until reunification, the network was affiliated with the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR in Berlin. The network is the publisher of "INKOTA Brief - The North-South Magazine". From 1985 to 1987 Döring was a member of the continuation committee "Peace Concrete", the union of system-critical grassroots groups in the vicinity of the churches.

Due to his commitment to development, Döring was appointed as a consultant to the preparatory committee "One Hope Learns To Walk" in 1987 and then in 1988/1989 as a participant in the Ecumenical Assemblies (ÖV) for justice, peace and the integrity of creation in Dresden and Magdeburg . These assemblies were part of the worldwide conciliar process. At the public transport, Hans-Joachim Döring helped shape the resolutions in the area of ​​"Living in solidarity - an answer to global structures of injustice". Döring's commitment during and after the peaceful revolution was influenced by the public transport. In 1989 he founded the development policy round table together with the Rostock theologian Walther Bindemann .

Work stays took Hans-Joachim Döring to various countries in the Global South , such as Nicaragua, Brazil, India, Tanzania, Mozambique, Senegal, Cuba and Peru. From 1992 to 1996 he was chairman of the founding committee and then first managing director of the North-South Bridges Foundation .

As an expert and proven critical analyst of the policy of the GDR against the "third world" worked Döring in the years 1996 to 1998 as a consultant for the Commission of Inquiry 'reclamation of history and consequences of the SED dictatorship " of the German Bundestag .

Studies under the title "It's about our existence - The GDR's policy towards Mozambique and Ethiopia" were published in 1999 by Ch. Links Verlag .

With a thesis on the politics of the SED and DDR towards Africa, the combat and training field solidarity and discriminatory working conditions of independent third-world groups in the GDR was Döring, 2007 at the Technical University of Berlin to Dr. phil. PhD.

Living with people and nature in solidarity and sustainability

Hans-Joachim Döring's work is shaped by his desire to provide applied orientation in the challenges of global conflicts such as the North-South conflict and the human-nature conflict. He is concerned with the sustainable design of the relationship between economy and ecology. He is moved by the fact that the current economic and lifestyles endanger natural cycles, nature and thus the basis of human life. From 1997 to 2003 Döring was the owner of the Environment and Development Department at the Church Research Center (KFH) (today: Research Center for Ecological Education and Consulting of the Evangelical Academy of Saxony-Anhalt ) in Lutherstadt Wittenberg on behalf of the Church Development Service (KED) . Here he has u. a. worked on "Ecumenism and Sustainability". Hans-Joachim Döring is also co-editor of the BRIEFE for orientation in the human-earth conflict of the KFH. A large number of publications by Döring can be found in the "BRIEFE" n.

Since 2004 he has been the representative of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM) for the KED. In 2008 he became chairman of the board of the ecumenical development cooperative Oikocredit - Central Germany (Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt). Oikocredit is an international cooperative that pursues the goal of promoting development by granting microcredits in developing countries. Oikokredit goes back to an initiative of the World Council of Churches in 1968.

In 2009, Hans-Joachim Döring founded the Lothar-Kreyssig-Ökumenezentrum (LKÖZ) of the EKM in Magdeburg and headed it until 2014. In 2009 he also became the environmental officer of the EKM and until 2020 headed the department of environment and church development service in the LKÖZ. The task of this department is to support the churches and Christian communities in coping with the challenges faced by the vulnerability of many people in developing countries and the injuries to large parts of nature, and to stimulate dialogue between church and society in the areas of sustainable development.

Döring was a member of the national synod of the EKM from 2009 to 2014 and headed the social ethical committee for public affairs.

From 2010 to 2016 Döring was also a member of the Chamber for Sustainable Development of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).

For a long time, Döring was also committed to coming to terms with the fate of the so-called contract workers from Mozambique in the GDR, who suffered great disadvantages as a result of the Peaceful Revolution , the break in the system in 1989/1990 and German unification and who have been struggling for respect and recognition for over 30 years Raise claims on withheld wage and pension claims.

Mediation in the field of tension between ecology, social affairs and economy

Due to his competence in the area of ​​tension between ecology and economy, Döring was appointed as a consultant for the overall Elbe concept in 2015 by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure and the Federal Environment Ministry . He moderated the process for the revitalization of the "Dornburger Alten Elbe ", the largest floodplain in Germany - on behalf of the state capital Magdeburg and the federal board of the BUND ( Federation for Environment and Nature Conservation Germany ). Since 2017 he has been a moderator in the “ Selke Dialog” of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, which is committed to balancing flood protection, nature conservation and citizen protection in the highly sensitive southern Harz.

From 2016 to 2018 he completed his training as a business and environmental mediator (with a certificate from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry ).

family

Hans-Joachim Döring is married and lives with his family near Magdeburg.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Joachim Döring: Monday alarm in the Politburo . Memories of the beginnings of the prayers for peace in St. Nikolai in Leipzig. In: The signs of the times - Lutheran monthly books . tape 11/1999 , 1999, pp. 36-38 .
2. ^ Hans-Joachim Döring: Leipziger Legenden - Memories of the beginnings of the prayers for peace on Monday in St. Nikolai in Leipzig. Retrieved June 16, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Döring: The peace prayer goes on. Retrieved June 20, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Hannes Würtz (Ed.): Poetry album . Special issue Poetenseminar 1980 - From 10th to 17th August 1980 in Schwerin. Interior graphics by Uwe Häntsch . New Life Publishing House , Berlin 1981.
5. ^ INKOTA-Brief - The North-South Magazine. INKOTA, accessed June 16, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Manfred Belle: The development policy round table in the GDR and in unified Germany . Goals, working methods and results of an extraordinary institution. Münster 1995, ISBN 3-8267-1115-7 .
7. ↑ Hans-Joachim Döring: On the policy of the GDR towards the Third World using the example of Ethiopia and Mozambique with special consideration of foreign trade relations . Study for the Enquete Commission of the German Bundestag “Overcoming and Consequences of the SED Dictatorship”. In: German Bundestag (Ed.): Divided Germany in a divided Europe . Volume VIII, Volume 2 of the Enquete materials - Commission “Overcoming the Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in the Process of German Unity”. Wiesbaden / Frankfurt / M. 1999, p. 997-1168 .
8. ^ ^{A b} Hans-Joachim Döring: It's about our existence . The policy of the GDR towards the Third World using the example of Mozambique and Ethiopia. In: Research on GDR society . 2nd edition 2001. Ch. Links-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86153-185-2 .
9. ↑ Hans-Joachim Döring: Development policy and solidarity in the GDR, presented using examples of state cooperation with Mozambique and Ethiopia and the development-related educational work of independent groups. (PDF; 797 kB) Dissertation at the TU Berlin. 2007, accessed May 6, 2020 . 
10. ↑ LETTERS for orientation in the human-earth conflict. Research Center for Ecological Education and Advice (Church Research Center) of the Evangelical Academy of Saxony-Anhalt, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, accessed on May 14, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Birgit Neumann-Becker, Hans-Joachim Döring (ed.): For respect and recognition . The Mozambican contract workers and the difficult legacy from the GDR (=  series of studies by the representatives of the state of Saxony-Anhalt to come to terms with the SED dictatorship . Volume 9 ). Mitteldeutscher Verlag , 2020, ISBN 978-3-96311-314-7 .
12. ↑ Elbe overall concept. Retrieved May 6, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Katja Tessnow: Old Elbe . Million project to save Elbearm. State and municipalities are committed to the plans to renaturate the Dornburg Old Elbe between Magdeburg and Schönebeck. In: Volksstimme . February 17, 2017 ( volksstimme.de ).
14. ↑ Appointment of the Selke Advisory Board. This is how sustainable flood protection in the Selketal can be achieved together. Sachsen-Anhalt-News, April 4, 2019, accessed on May 14, 2020 . 

literature

• Hans-Joachim Döring: I'm sick of others starving . Two thirds of the world groups in the churches in the GDR. In: The overview. Journal for ecumenical encounters and international cooperation . tape 3/1988 , 1988, ISBN 0-00-343055-3 , ISSN  0343-0553 , pp. 19-22 .

• Hans-Joachim Döring: The conciliar process in the GDR . In: The overview. Journal for ecumenical encounters and international cooperation . tape 3/1989 , 1988, ISBN 0-00-343055-3 , ISSN  0343-0553 , pp. 72-74 .

• Hans-Joachim Döring: Promotion to permanent inventory? The development policy round table has earned recognition. In: The overview. Journal for ecumenical encounters and international cooperation . tape 2/1990 , 1990, ISBN 0-00-343055-3 , ISSN  0343-0553 , p. 72-75 .

• Hans-Joachim Döring: Looking further - sustainable development is the prerequisite for a future with confidence . In: The signs of the times - Lutheran monthly books . tape 5/1999 , 1999, pp. 8-10 .

• Hans-Joachim Döring: Through solidarity to debt? On the origin and handling of the Federal Government with ex-GDR demands against African countries. In: The overview. Journal for ecumenical encounters and international cooperation . tape 3/1999 , 1990, ISBN 0-00-343055-3 , ISSN  0343-0553 , pp. 86-92 .

• Hans-Joachim Döring, Uta Rüchel (ed.): Friendship ties and relationship boxes . The Africa policy of the GDR and the FRG towards Mozambique. Brandes & Apsel Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-86099-806-9 .

• Christ liberates - therefore church for others! 35 years after Heino Falcke's lecture in 1972. Proceedings. In: Hans-Joachim Döring, Michael Haspel (eds.): EPD documentation . tape 50 . Evangelical Press Service , Frankfurt / Main 2007.

• Hans-Joachim Döring (Ed.): Lothar Kreyssig. Essays, autobiography and documents . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-374-02909-9 .

• Lothar Kreyssig and Walter Grundmann . Two church political protagonists of the 20th century in Central Germany. In: Hans-Joachim Döring, Michael Haspel (eds.): Scripturae . Evangelical Academy of Thuringia. Wartburg-Verlag, Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-86160-262-0 .

swell

• Angela Stoye: About the person: Dr. Hans-Joachim Döring . In: Letters - For orientation in the human-earth conflict . tape 134 , no. 1 , 2020, p. 70 .
• Angela Stoye: At the river of life . Summer interview with Angela Stoye. In: Letters - For orientation in the human-earth conflict . tape 134 , no. 1 , 2020, p. 64-69 .
• Letters - For Orientation in the Human - Earth Conflict, spring 2020 with list of publications. (PDF; 2.1 MB) Ecumenical Center of the EKM, accessed on June 20, 2020 .