Jürgen Stabe
Jürgen Stabe (born January 26, 1938 in Seifhennersdorf ; † November 8, 2015 ) was a German Protestant pastor , long-time chairman of the German Evangelical Alliance , superintendent of the Annaberg-Buchholz church district and author of non-fiction .
Life
Jürgen Stabe went to school in Zittau from 1944 , then began an apprenticeship as a farmer and continued his studies at a technical college . He then worked as an agronomist and economist in agriculture before he decided to study theology.
In 1977 he became one of the youngest church district leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Saxony in Annaberg-Buchholz . From 1981 on he was a member of the leadership of the Evangelical Alliance in the GDR , which in 1982 was recognized by the GDR government as an independent and legally responsible “Central Church Community”. From 1987 he was its chairman. From April 1991 to 1994 he was the first all-German chairman of the German Evangelical Alliance after German reunification , headed the Blankenburg Alliance Conferences and was committed to the Evangelical Alliance House in Bad Blankenburg, of which he was also a member of the supervisory board for many years. At the end of October 1999 he took early retirement for health reasons, but remained a member of the boards of the two German Evangelical Alliances until 2003. In the last few years he has become blind.
He was a member of the Czech-German working group of the Evangelical Brothers and the Evangelical Church in Germany, belonged to the board of trustees of the Christian Aids-Hilfsdienst e. V. and was one of the first to sign the initiative “Time to get up - an impulse for the future of the church” as a supporter.
Jürgen Stabe was married to his wife Brigitte and lived in Crottendorf .
Publications
- Wonderfully guided: memories and encounters , SCM R. Brockhaus , Witten 2002, ISBN 978-3-417-11802-5 .
- Faith, geese and comrades: my life in two German states (autobiography), SCM Hänssler , Holzgerlingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7751-5076-7 .
- as editor
- Churches in and around Annaberg , Wartburg-Verlag, Weimar & Jena 1994, ISBN 978-3-86160134-0 .
- Barbara Uthmann in Annaberg , support association for the reconstruction of the Barbara Uthmann monument on the Annaberger Markt (1999–2002), Annaberg-Buchholz 2002, DNB 965431320
Web links
- Literature by and about Jürgen Stabe in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Jürgen Stabe in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary notice. In: Freie Presse , local edition Annaberg-Buchholz of November 10, 2015, p. 10.
- ↑ Peter Maser: Faith in Socialism. Churches and religious communities in the GDR , p. 17, ISBN 978-3-92122636-0 .
- ^ All German alliance chairman has died , in: IdeaSpektrum , edition 46/2015, p. 35.
- ↑ Retired Superintendent Jürgen Stabe is 75 , ead. The report of January 24, 2013.
- ↑ Members of the Czech-German working group of the Evangelical Brothers and the Evangelical Church in Germany ( Memento from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Board of Trustees of the Christian Aids Aid Service e. V. ( Memento from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), cahev.de
- ↑ first signatories of the initiative "Time to get up" , zeit-zum-aufstehen.de, accessed November 13, 2015.
- ↑ Jürgen Stabe has gone home , ead.de, message from November 9, 2015.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Fritz Laubach | First chairman of the German Evangelical Alliance 1991–1994 |
Rolf Hille |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stabe, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pastor and long-time chairman of the German Evangelical Alliance |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seifhennersdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 2015 |