Horst Kurt Greim

Horst Kurt Greim (born September 21, 1933 in Altenburg ; † October 30, 2008 in Eisenach ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Horst Greim was initially a deacon . In 1970 he was appointed pastor in Winterstein , Thuringia . In 1978 he joined the Evangelical Media Advisory Board. In 1979 he was delegated to the regional church office of the Thuringian regional church . During this time, he succeeded in having the first television service broadcast on German television . In 1981 he took over the management of the community service and organized five state and four regional church days . Among other things, he initiated a service from the GDR to be broadcast on ZDF . This service was celebrated on Christmas Eve 1982 in Finsterbergen . In the same year he was appointed to the church council . In 1983 he opened the Luther year at the Wartburg . This event was broadcast by ARD in the Federal Republic of Germany .

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he became a member of the media policy round table and contributed to the democratization of broadcasting . On August 31, 1991, the first speaker from the former GDR appeared in the program Das Wort zum Sonntag . In 1992 Greim became a representative for the Thuringian regional church in the broadcasting council of the Central German Broadcasting Corporation and sat on the program advisory board of ARD for the federal states of Saxony , Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt . Between 1991 and 1996 he headed a committee of inquiry that investigated possible entanglements between MDR employees and the Ministry of State Security .

Since 1992 he has been director of the Evangelical Abbey in Reinhardsbrunn . In 1995 he retired. On December 12, 2003 he was awarded the Cross of Merit on ribbon .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of medals from Thuringia