Joachim Jaeger

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Joachim Jaeger (born May 26, 1935 in Johanngeorgenstadt ) is a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman.

Life

Jaeger comes from Johanngeorgenstadt in the Saxon Ore Mountains . He trained as a machine fitter and then took up engineering studies at the Technical University of Karl-Marx-Stadt . He then studied Protestant theology in East Berlin and Naumburg .

In 1967 Jaeger was ordained as a Protestant pastor . In 1973 he became student pastor in Halle (Saale) and in 1977 superintendent in Nordhausen . In 1986 he was appointed provost of the Propstei Südharz (head office in Nordhausen) in the Evangelical Church Province of Saxony , where he experienced the political turning point in which he moderated the " round table ". He worked on a voluntary basis in the field of monument preservation and headed the board of trustees of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp memorial from 1991 to 1994 . When the provosts of southern Harz and Erfurt were merged in 1994, Jaeger took over the management of the provost's office in Erfurt-Nordhausen and has lived in Erfurt ever since . In 2000 he retired.

Jaeger sees himself as a theologian who denies the restriction of Christian existence to internal church matters and who advocates the creation of just social conditions. That came z. B. expressed in his participation in a seminar weekend of the parish group Kapellendorf of the Christian Peace Conference , where he preached in the service about the revolutionary work of Thomas Müntzer .

Joachim Jaeger has two daughters and two sons. One of the sons is the Rostock politician of the Greens Johann-Georg Jaeger .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liberating faith for an unfree people. Thomas Müntzer on his 499th birthday. Sermon in the church in Kapellendorf on October 9, 1988, = historical learning in the community. Festschrift for the 50th birthday of Stefan Müller, ed. Christian peace conference in Thuringia
  2. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Jaeger, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Johanngeorgenstadt