Helmut Zielinski

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Helmut Reinhold Zielinski (born April 25, 1944 in Paderborn ; † December 24, 2017 ) was a German clergyman , Roman Catholic theologian and professor of moral theology and ethics . His last position was at the seminary in the Chosica diocese in Peru , where he was also the ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta . In Germany he made a major contribution to the development of palliative medicine and the hospice movement .

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Helmut Zielinski studied Catholic theology in 1966 at the Dominican Order College in Walberberg as well as in Cologne and Bonn and specialized in moral theology and ethics. After ordination in Cambridge , he was a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge from 1970 to 1975 , where he received his doctorate in 1974 with a dissertation on euthanasia in the light of the events of 1939 to 1945 in Germany .

From 1975 to 1983 he was head of the hospital pastoral care and lecturer for medical ethics at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . From 1983 to 1989 he conducted research at the University of Cologne and initiated the hospice movement as well as pain and palliative therapy in Germany with the surgeon Heinz Pichlmaier and Mildred Scheel . The first palliative care ward in Germany was set up in Cologne in 1983 according to plans by him, Heinz Pichlmaier and Ingeborg Jonen-Thielemann and is considered a pioneering model for subsequent facilities.

In 1980 Zielinski founded the Working Group for Medical Ethics and Society Education (AMEG) in Cologne and from 1980 to 1989 was the editor of the Touchstones of Medical Ethics , a series of documentations on medical ethics.

Zielinski supported Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's model of the phases of dying , but emphasized the importance of the religious needs of the dying and of discussions about the meaning of life and life after death.

In 1989 he went to Peru as a pastor and official ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta . He founded Malteser Brasil and Malteser Peru . He worked there as a priest in the slums of Lima, the Pueblos jóvenes (Ate Vitarte, Lima East), and was envoy to the embassy of the order in Lima and economist for the diocese of Chosica . He also taught as a professor of moral theology and ethics at the seminary in Lurigancho-Chosica . He kept in touch with Germany.

Helmut Zielinski died after a long illness in December 2017 at the age of 73.

Memberships

Honors

  • Appointment as Papal Honorary Chaplain ( Monsignor )

Fonts

  • Euthanasia in the light of the events of 1939-45 in Germany. Dissertation Cambridge University 1974. 2nd edition in the series test stones of medical ethics , volume X. Working group for medical ethics and society education (AMEG), Grevenbroich 1988
  • Where pain loses its horror: a model of palliative therapy. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1988, ISBN 978-3-7867-1335-7 .
  • Palliative therapy and hospice movement in the Federal Republic of Germany. Dadder, Saarbrücken-Scheidt 1993, ISBN 978-3-926406-75-0 .
  • (as editor): Do you even realize that I have AIDS? Letters from an HIV positive person. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1989

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pastor retired Msgr. Dr. Helmut Zielinski passed away . Press release of the German Hospice and Palliative Association e. V. , January 1, 2018, accessed on January 10, 2018. Obituary notice newspaper group Cologne , January 3, 2018, accessed on January 11, 2018.
  2. ^ Gisela Klinkhammer: Palliative medicine: quantum leap for the care of the seriously ill. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt 104 (25), 2007, June 22, 2007, accessed on July 24, 2017.
  3. ↑ Raymond Voltz: Palliative care an outlook paradigm shift in medicine . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt 105 (15), 2008, April 11, 2008, accessed on July 24, 2017.
  4. ↑ Peter Godzik: Committed to the hospice: experiences and impulses from three decades. Steinmann 2011, ISBN 978-3927043442 , p. 17.
  5. ↑ Sarah Bitsche, Brigitte Brunner, Agnes Grinschgl, Petra Hatzl, Maria Hüttner, Monika Primavesi: Project work in the 3rd interprofessional basic course in Palliative Care in Graz 2009/10: Guide to caring for dying patients in hospitals . ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2018 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. caritasakademie.at, May 26, 2010, p. 7, accessed on July 24, 2017 (pdf; 1.2 MB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.caritasakademie.at
  6. ↑ a b Obituary notice Helmut Zielinski (Order of Malta). In: Rheinische Post , January 3, 2018, accessed on January 12, 2018.
  7. ↑ Birgit Weihrauch, Raymond Voltz: Farewell to Pastor Helmut Zielinski. Palliative Care Center of the University Hospital Cologne, January 8, 2018, accessed on January 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Zielinski, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zielinski, Helmut Reinhold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2017