Hans-Peter Gensichen

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Hans-Peter Gensichen (born October 30, 1943 in Pritzwalk , Brandenburg ; † November 28, 2019 in Tübingen ) was a Protestant theologian with a focus on ecological ethics , scientific ethics and the history of science.

Life

Gensichen grew up in a doctor's household, on his mother's piano and on the organ of the Pritzwalker Nikolai Church . He attended secondary school and in 1961 switched to the church college in Potsdam-Hermannswerder , where he graduated from high school in 1965. He then studied Protestant theology at the Sprachenkonvikt Berlin and from 1967 to 1972 at the Humboldt University . 1972 and 1973 he was vicar at the Wittenberg town church; During this time he wrote his doctoral thesis on the pastor and ornithologist Otto Kleinschmidt , which he wrote under Hans-Georg Fritzsche . From 1975 he was director of the Ecclesiastical Research Home founded by Otto Kleinschmidt in Wittenberg and preacher at the castle church there . The research home was founded in 1927 as a permanent place for the dialogue between life sciences and Christian faith. Gensichen promoted the new founding and activity of church environmental groups and supported them in networking across the GDR. He published numerous publications on ecological topics and on political problem areas of church environmental work, most of which were only allowed to appear hectographed . Since 1979 he has been editor of the new magazine Letters for Orientation in the Human - Earth Conflict ; also only hectographed. In 1981 he called for the annual " Mobil ohne Auto " environmental weekend for the first time . During the so-called turning point in the GDR, in 1990 he initiated the “Central Green Table” at the GDR Environment Ministry. A little later, after reunification , he was appointed founding curator of the German Federal Environment Foundation and was a member of its management committee until 1998. Between 1998 and 2001 he coordinated church activities in the EXPO 2000 correspondence region Bitterfeld-Dessau-Wittenberg. Gensichen presented the history of the GDR environmental movement between 1988 and 2007 in a total of nine essays.

In 2002, Gensichen took early retirement for health reasons and devoted himself mainly to writing, including the history of science. But first came to do-let , Gensichens Environmental Ethics, as well as his science fiction Uckermark . And he participated in the further development of a liberation theology for the north / northwest of the world. He was also concerned with liberation from (southern) poverty, but more about saying goodbye to (northern) wealth.

In 2007 the Gensichen moved to Tübingen . Verena Gensichen founded and managed the “Weltladen” (fair trade) in Wittenberg and continued this work in the south-west of the republic. Hans-Peter Gensichen was an honorary preacher at the Tübingen Stephanuskirche for three years. Sermons he gave there were published as a book in 2017. In 2009 his “Poverty Will Save Us” was published. 2016 ended Gensichen many years of work on a scientific biography of the mathematician and Kant -Freundes Johann Friedrich Gensichen: "the young friend of the old Kant."

Fonts (selection)

  • Genetics and Ethics (with Charlotte Boost). Church research home (hectographed), Wittenberg 1976.
  • Otto Kleinschmidt's theory of shapes. Zoogeography, systematics, evolutionary research, anthropology . In: Biologische Rundschau. Vol. 17, 1979, pp. 73-84.
  • The earth can be saved (with a team of authors). Church research home (hectographed), Wittenberg 1980 (and other editions).
  • Alfred Brehm : Journey to the Kyrgyz. From the Siberian diary 1876 (publisher Gensichen). Reclam, Leipzig 1982.
  • Theology and science with Otto Kleinschmidt. In: Theological Trials XV, 1985, pp. 65-76. (Editors J. Rogge and G. Schille), Berlin (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt) 1985, pp. 65–76.
  • The Flood Tale as a guiding text in the environmental crisis . In: Evangelical Theology. 45th vol., 1985, H. 3, pp. 211-224.
  • What to do with the high technologies? On the use of microelectronics and biotechnology for ecologically and socially responsible development (with team of authors). Church research home (hectographed), Wittenberg 1987.
  • Environment mosaic GDR '89 (editor). German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1990.
  • Letter to scientists. In: German magazine for philosophy. 38, 1990, 11, 1119f.
  • do-let. Everyday ecological ethics in the 21st century. Halle (Saale) 2003.
  • Environmental responsibility in a concrete society. Comments on church environmental work in the GDR 1970 to 1990. In: Franz-Josef Brüggemeier , Jens Ivo Engels (ed.): Nature and environmental protection after 1945. Frankfurt a. M./New York 2005, pp. 287-306.
  • The ethical dimension of sustainability . In: Gerd Michelsen, Jasmin Godemann (ed.): Handbook on sustainability communication. Munich 2005, pp. 96-108.
  • On the way to a society of the less (Ed. Gisela Kallenbach ). European Parliament, Brussels 2008.
  • Poverty will save us. Shared prosperity in a society of less. Edition Publik-Forum, Oberursel 2009.
  • Experienced GDR history. Thirteen eyewitnesses report. Berlin, Ch. Links Verlag 2014. In it: Hans-Peter Gensichen, Christians and Churches in the DDr; .S. 57-73
  • ... into the open ... autobiography Gensichen , Books on Demand 2016
  • Uckermark. Roman , Books on Demand 2017
  • Tübingen Sermons , Books on Demand 2017

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The theologian Hans-Peter Gensichen died at the age of 76 in Tübingen. Faith and Home , 49, Dec. 8, 2019, p. 2.
  2. ↑ A partial advance publication under (online publication ).
personal data
SURNAME Gensichen, Hans-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian with a focus on ecological ethics
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Pritzwalk , Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2019
Place of death Tübingen