Heiner Ludwig

Heiner Ludwig (left) with Father Oswald von Nell-Breuning and Karl Nothof

Heiner Ludwig (born November 18, 1942 in Wadrill , Saarland ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian .

Ludwig studied Roman Catholic theology at the University of Münster and graduated in 1969 with a degree in theology. From 1970 to 1975 he was a research assistant at the University of Münster. In 1975 he received his doctorate and in 1976 he was appointed professor at the University of Giessen . In 1983 Ludwig was appointed advisor for Church and Workers at the Catholic District Office in Frankfurt / Main and held the office until 1990. He was then appointed director of the Academy for Political and Social Education of the Diocese of Mainz - "Haus am Maiberg" - in Heppenheim. From 1996 to 2007 Ludwig was a professor at the Institute for Theology and Social Ethics at TU Darmstadt . Ludwig is married and has three children.

Works (selection)

• Work is not a commodity! On economic crises, normative orientation and political practice (jointly with W. Thierse ), Freiburg 2009
• Social integration through work. On the future viability of social Catholic traditions of work and democracy at the end of industrial society, Studies on Christian Social Ethics Vol. 2 (together with Karl Gabriel ), Münster 2000
• The two-earner family. From family support to child support? Studies on Christian Social Ethics , Volume 8 (in collaboration with Bernhard Emunds / H. Zingel), Münster 2003.
• Social and Left Catholicism. Memory, orientation, liberation . (ed. with W. Schroeder), Frankfurt / M. 1990.
• The Church in the process of social differentiation . Munich 1976.

Web links

• University of Darmstadt: Heiner Ludwig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Heiner Ludwig . Technical University of Darmstadt, accessed on August 21, 2016.