Jean Paul Muller

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Jean Paul Muller SDB (born October 13, 1957 in Grevenmacher , Luxembourg) is a friar , was head of the Don Bosco Mission in Bonn and has been the General Economist of Don Bosco's Salesians since 2011 .

Life

After training as a nursing assistant in Luxembourg, he entered the novitiate of Don Bosco's Salesians in Jünkerath in 1978 . After his first profession, he initially trained as a state-certified educator from 1979 to 1984 and then worked at various inpatient institutions for educational assistance and home education. From 1991 to 1995 he studied curative education in Cologne . From 1996 to 2000 he headed the Don Bosco Helenenberg youth welfare center near Trier. Subsequently, until 2003 he was the coordinator of various social institutions within the framework of the Child and Youth Welfare Act .

From 2003 to 2012 Muller headed the Don Bosco Mission in Bonn, the mission procuration of the Salesians Don Bosco in Germany. From 2009 to 2012 he was also the managing director of the Don Bosco Mondo eV association

From 1990 to 2011 he was a member of the Provincial Council within the religious order , initially in the northern German province, then from 2005 in the all-German province. In addition, from 1996 to 2011 he was a member of the coordination group for the European institutions for youth social work and marginal group work. From 2000 to 2003 he was at the Provincialate of the North German Province of the Salesians Don Bosco, coordinator of educational assistance and head of the “Public Relations” and “Voluntary Services” departments. From 2008 to 2011 he was a moderator in the social advisory board ( Consulta mondiale ) of the religious community in Rome. On January 25, 2011, he was appointed general economist of the religious order based in Rome.

At the professional association of curative pedagogues (BHP) he headed the committee "curative pedagogues in youth welfare" since 1996 and since 1999 the working group "professional image ethics". From 1998 he was a board member and from 2000 to 2014 chairman of this professional association. During his term of office, he developed the European Academy for Curative Education (EAH) in Berlin in 2005 and the International Archive for Curative Education in Trebnitz in 2013 .

From 1996 to 1998 he helped to set up the ecumenical educational aid association in the Eifel and then together with Günter Funk from the Association of Schmiedelanstalten in Nannhausen, he was managing director of the youth welfare stations in the Eifel (Adenau, Bitburg, Daun, Prüm) until 2002.

As part of the German Caritas Association , he was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate Committee (Dioceses Mainz, Trier and Speyer) and the board of the “Educational Aid in the Diocese of Trier” working group from 1998 to 2005.

From 1998 to 2005 he is also a partner in the consulting institute Vista GbR.

Since 2002 he has been chairman of the “Iuventus Mundi” foundation and of the “Education without Frontiers” foundation since 2005.

From 2003 to 2012 he was federal chairman of the Working Group of German Mission Procurators. He was also a board member in the German Catholic Mission Council .

From 2009 to 2011 he was a member of the supervisory board of Pax-Bank Cologne.

Since January 2011 he has been General Economist of the Order of the Salesians of Don Bosco in Rome.

Since January 2012 he has been the Conseiller Ecclésiastique of the Luxembourg Embassy at the Holy See .

Works

  • Human cost factor - curative educational ethics in view of social decline , Rendsburg 1996
  • Courage to think outside the box - curative education in the field of tension between new thinking , Kiel 1998
  • Goals and methods of curative educational work in Europe , Berlin 2000
  • Educating Young People in Human Rights , Bonn / Johannesburg 2008
  • Planning and Development office at the service of the Salesian Charism , 2011
  • Provincial Mission office at the service of the Salesian Charism , 2012
  • Reason, Religion and Kindness , 2013

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