Hansjürgen Knoche

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Hansjürgen Knoche , (born February 21, 1930 in Plauen im Vogtland ), Sanctae Theologiae Doctor (STD Wittenberg Lutheran Seminary, USA), is a German ministerial conductor and a former president of the Lower Saxony Constitutional Protection . D.

Life

Hansjürgen Knoche grew up in Leipzig. There he attended the König-Albert-Gymnasium and passed the Abitur in 1948. Knoche began studying law , theology and philosophy . In 1950 he came to Freiburg im Breisgau as a political refugee and continued his studies there. He passed the first and second state exams in Freiburg and Stuttgart and received his doctorate in Freiburg in 1957 with the topic: "Ulrich Zasius and the Freiburg city law of 1520".

He then worked as a research assistant (Kiel), lawyer (Frankfurt) and in the insurance industry (Düsseldorf, Wiesbaden, Hamburg; authorized signatory and department director). Knoche was in the state service of Lower Saxony from 1960, first with the President of the Lower Saxony administrative district of Braunschweig, then in the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior as head of the cabinet department, state returning officer and finally President of the Lower Saxony State Office for the Protection of the Constitution. He retired in 1993.

Knoche was in ecumenical associations since 1960, z. Partly in a leading position, active and member of the Evangelical Collection, then of the Federation for Evangelical-Catholic Reunification (now: Unity) e. V, board member and advisory board member for decades. Co-founder and elder of the ecumenically oriented St. James Brotherhood , member of the high church association of the Augsburg Confession and former member of the Unità dei Cristiani . Since 2002 he has been the editor-in-chief of the magazine “Building blocks for the unity of Christians”, published by the Bund für Evangelical-Catholic Unity e. V. Employee of the Catholic News Agency (KNA - ÖKI) and founder and board member of the " König-Albert-Gymnasium Leipzig" foundation . Numerous theological and philosophical lectures, publications and discussions with church authorities made him a well-known German evangelical ecumenist.

Publications

  • Ulrich Zasius and the Freiburg city charter from 1520 . 1957.
  • The DKP. Organization - ideology - politics . Ed. Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education, Hanover 1980.
  • From Marx to Paul. Theoretical discussions of the left and their possible political consequences . 1983, ISBN 3-922479-15-4 .
  • Unification of the churches - with whom? On the theses of Karl Rahner and Heinrich Fries. 1986; 2nd unchanged edition Munich 1995, ISBN 3-922479-23-5 .
  • God is indispensable. Atheism as a self-contradiction. Ecumenical foundations of Christian philosophy . Munich 1988, Meta-Verlag, ISBN 3-922479-29-4 .
  • Materialism on the decline. Small introduction to current problems in philosophy, science and theology . Munich 1988.
  • Credible belief. Ecumenical foundations of fundamental theology . Munich 1989.
  • Creation ethics. Ecumenical foundations of creation theology and ethics . Munich 1989.
  • Heaven or Hell. To the core of the message of Jesus, against modern trivializations. Ecumenical reflections on soteriology, ecclesiology and eschatology . Munich 1991.
  • Belief, time and eternity. Unconventional about Christian issues of the time . Meta-Verlasg, 1993, ISBN 3-922479-46-4 .
  • Ecumenism on the way to practice. New aspects according to the encyclical "Ut unum sint" . 1995 special issue of the magazine "Building blocks for Christian unity".
  • Do not trust every expert! Biblical Criticism, Faith and the Church Today . Building blocks for the unity of Christians, special issue 1996.
  • Christian Faith and Science Today. New scientific theories as a challenge and help for faith. Issue 157, Epiphany 2000.
  • Political system. In: Lower Saxony - A portrait, edited by Nieders. Landeszentrale f. Political Education . 2nd Edition. Hannover 2000, p. 178 ff.
  • Worst possible world? Attempt to continue the theodicy . Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6057-4 .
  • Differentiation of spirits: Unity needs truth. The separation of difference and consensus ecumenism in Germany . 2007, ISBN 978-3-8334-7225-1 .
  • Lutheran Catholic. The future model. 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-4995-4 .
  • Lutheran in the Catholic Church. The ecumenical hope. Building blocks for the unity of Christians, special issue 2009.
  • God world eternity. Contributions to Christian issues of the time. 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-2172-1 .
  • Best or worst world? New reflections on theodicy. 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-4659-0 .
  • Evangelical-Catholic. The ecumenical future model. 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-3492-2 .
  • Believe together with common sense. Ecumenical introduction. 2012, ISBN 978-3-8423-7901-5 .
  • Don't worry, Pastor! Follow-up insurance when changing churches. 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-7848-0 .
  • Theology course for atheists and doubting Christians. Information to think more carefully. 2017. ISBN 978-3-7448-1657-1

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  1. ↑ Published as vol. 10 of the Freiburger Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Karlsruhe 1957; Digital version 2013
personal data
SURNAME Knoche, Hansjürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ministerial director and President of the Lower Saxony State Office for the Protection of the Constitution
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen in the Vogtland