Hans-Jochen Vogel (pastor)

Student pastor Hans-Joachim Vogel, around 1973

Hans-Jochen Vogel (born February 27, 1943 in Chemnitz ; † December 27, 2005 there ) was a student pastor .

Life

Vogel was pastor of the Protestant student community in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) for 25 years. After the self-immolation of the Falkensteiner pastor Rolf Günther on September 17, 1978, the Karl-Marx-Stadt district administration of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) intensified its efforts to establish confidential contacts with "progressive" pastors in the church. As part of this action plan, Vogel was to be won over as an unofficial employee . Vogel also met with officers from the Ministry for several years. But after he did not meet the expectations placed in him, the cooperation was discontinued. The MfS later investigated Vogel because he actively supported peace groups in the GDR.

Vogel was involved in the peace work of his community, but he also worked in the Christian Peace Conference of the GDR (CFK). For the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Open Church” he published information sheets that were not approved by the state and rated as “anti-socialist” by the MfS.

After reunification he continued his engagement in peace politics and became a member of Attac Chemnitz. In 2000 he was charged with calling on the soldiers of the Bundeswehr to refuse to participate in the Kosovo war , but acquitted. Vogel took part in Easter marches in Chemnitz and gave speeches there. In 2005 he was co-initiator of the Chemnitz Peace Day.

Hans-Jochen Vogel was a long-time author of the magazine telegraph and editor of the newspaper against the war.

In 2004 Vogel was awarded the Chemnitz Peace Prize.

Publications

• Shalom and goodbye? The church peace movement and the conciliar process in the GDR continue to have an effect. (With a testimony from 1984). In: Making Peace Without Arms. For non-military conflict resolution in and through Europe. Contributions to the Fifth Dresden Peace Symposium on February 15, 1997. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspektiven (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers , Dresden 1997, Issue 34, pp. 23–38. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-340449
• We lost (the GDR); we have a world to win. In: Bernd Gehrke , Wolfgang Rüddenklau (Ed.): Wasn't our alternative. Westphalian steam boat, Münster 1999. ISBN 3-89691-466-9 . P. 399 ff.
• Opportunities and obstacles on the way to a peaceful Europe. Contributions to the ninth Dresden Peace Symposium on February 10, 2001. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers, Dresden 2001, issue 58, pp. 6–20.
• Globalization, East German. In: Christine Buchholz: Our world is not a commodity: Handbook for critics of globalization. Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2002. ISBN 3-462-03164-3 . P. 167 ff.
• Speechless intellectuals. In: Ossietzky issue 20/2004.
• Structural Violence in War (1978-2). In: Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolence and Civil Courage - Archive of the Citizens' Movement of South West Saxony: Space for goodness and conscience: the Christian Peace Seminar in Königswalde in the former district of Karl Marx Stadt / GDR 1973-1990. Kraussreinhardt, 2004. ISBN 3-9810040-0-0 . P. 55 ff.
• come alive - the voice of Hans-Jochen Vogel. Scheunen-Verlag, Kückenshagen 2008. ISBN 978-3-938398-58-6 (edited by Elke Vogel)
• Epilogue to strife in Germany GNN-Verlag, Schkeuditz, ISBN 3-928556-06-1

Secondary literature

• Jens Langer: Hans-Jochen Vogel: February 27 , 1943 - December 27 , 2005 , in: City Talks, issue 42, March 2006, p. 35.
• Ehrhart Neubert: History of the opposition in the GDR 1949–1989. 2nd Edition. Ch. Links Verlag , Berlin 1998. ISBN 978-3-86153-163-0 . passim

Web links

• Friedensarchiv des Verein Kunstraum Chemnitz eV: Biography of Hans-Jochen Vogel (1943-2005) ( Memento from September 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• Chemnitz Peace Day: In memoriam Hans-Jochen Vogel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary: Hans-Jochen Vogel ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Stadt Discussion , Issue 42 (March 2006), p. 35. ( PDF version of the magazine ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )  
2. ↑ Peter Grimm: The suppressed self-immolation. In: Horch und Guck Heft 3/2008, p. 78. ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Havemann-Gesellschaft: Findbuch DDR-Opposition bis 1989, p. 80 ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 571 kB); Paul Kaiser, Claudia Petzold: Boheme and dictatorship in the GDR: groups, conflicts, quarters 1970-1989. Fannei and Walz, Berlin 1997. ISBN 3-927574-39-2 . P. 334.  
4. ↑ Ministry of State Security: Overview of noteworthy unauthorized printed and reproduced products of anti-socialist content and character, so-called information sheets (published on www.ddr89.de).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Wolfgang Richter, Gabriele Senft: The German Responsibility for the NATO War against Yugoslavia - Paper of the International Preparatory Committee for a European Tribunal on the NATO War against Yugoslavia. Schkeuditzer Buchverlag, Schkeuditz 2000. ISBN 3-9806705-6-2 . Pp. 278, 286 f.
6. ↑ Hans-Jochen Vogel: Address at the beginning of the Easter March - Chemnitz, April 9, 2004.
7. ↑ The Chemnitz Peace Day ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Chemnitz Peace Day 2010. ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.