Johannes Czwalina

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Johannes Czwalina in front of the memorial in Riehen

Johannes Czwalina (born May 25, 1952 in Berlin ) is a theologian , author and management consultant .

Life

Johannes Czwalina was born as the son of the veterinarian Ingo Czwalina in Berlin. His grandfather is the math historian and translator of ancient Greek mathematics Arthur Czwalina . After graduating from high school in ancient languages ​​(Greek, Hebrew, Latin) in 1973, he studied archeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1973 to 1974. From 1974 to 1976 he studied at the state-independent theological college in Basel . Furthermore, studied at the University of Basel from 1976 to 1980 theology and received his diploma as a qualified theologian on April 1, 1980. The ordination by the Evangelical Reformed Church Basel-Stadt was made on 13 June 1983rd

In 1977, together with Robi Roth, he founded Alban-Arbeit, a city church under the umbrella of the Evangelical Reformed Church. During the 1970s and 1980s, the Alban work saw a large influx of young people in particular. Alban-Arbeit founded various social works, such as the youth center E9 or the Weizenkorn workshop with protected jobs and training positions.

In 1990, Johannes Czwalina began advising executives from business and politics and in 1993 went into business for himself with CC Czwalina Consulting AG. At the same time, the Society for Advising Executives (GBF) was created, which accompanies people who can no longer pay for advice due to emergency situations. He works as an author, speaker and conversation partner at congresses, radio and television broadcasts.

In the summer of 2010, Czwalina received around 100 hate mail and several death threats because he advertised himself to pay Muslim families the busses of the Basel government because they had refused to send their daughters to swimming lessons out of their shame. Czwalina paid the fines and initiated a lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights , which, however, ruled in 2017 that the students had to attend mixed-sex swimming lessons.

At the beginning of 2011, together with Rudolf Geigy from the Esther Foundation, he opened the Riehen memorial in a former switchman house of the Reichsbahn , which commemorates the fate of the mostly Jewish refugees on the Swiss border, their helpers and the rejection by Swiss authorities during the Nazi regime. Rule in the German Empire remembered. A collaboration with the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Basel (IJS) sought by Czwalina was rejected by its director Erik Petry because he expected a more distant, scientific approach to the topic , while Czwalina pursued a more emotional path and the aim of a memorial another than that of a museum . Since the city of Basel was planning its own museum for the history of refugees, there was no collaboration with the Jewish Museum of Switzerland . The planned museum has not yet been realized (as of 2017).

Since 2013 there have been regular discussions on topics of cooperation with the Center for Jewish Studies in Basel. In 2015, the Israeli ambassador gave a lecture on the current situation in Israel on the occasion of the memorial's four-year existence. The cooperation with the Jewish Museum , the Israelite community and the University of Basel is sought and further expanded.

Publications (selection)

  • Johannes Czwalina (Ed.): Fade in reality! Ways to peace . Dittrich Verla, Weilerswist-Metternich 2017, ISBN 978-3-943941-71-5 .
  • Johannes Czwalina: The silence speaks . When does this past pass. Joh.Brendow & Sohn Verlag, Moers 2013, ISBN 978-3-86506-462-2 .
  • Johannes Czwalina, Clemens Brandstetter: Working from happiness . Why working in dignity is so important. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-89981-235-0 .
  • Johannes Czwalina: career without regrets . In this way you create meaning and quality of life despite the pressure to perform. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-89981-161-2 .
  • Johannes Czwalina: Anyone who is brave knows fear . A passionate plea for civil courage in business and society. Joh.Brendow & Sohn Verlag, Moers 2008, ISBN 978-3-86506-212-3 .
  • Johannes Czwalina: If I could start all over again . Live worth living. Joh.Brendow & Sohn Verlag, Moers 2006, ISBN 3-86506-097-8 .
  • Johannes Czwalina: Between pressure to perform and quality of life . Why the market has no soul ... Who's Who Media project group, Oberursel 2003, ISBN 3-936963-00-2 .
  • Johannes Czwalina: The market has no soul . Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-933180-78-3 .
  • Johannes Czwalina: A career without meaning? The manager between work, power and family. Resch, Graefelfing 1998, ISBN 3-930039-56-7 .
  • Johannes Czwalina, Wolfgang Benz, Dan Shambicco (eds.): It's never just about the past . Fates and encounters in the Dreiland 1933-1945. Dittrich Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-947373-30-7 .
  • Johannes Czwalina, Dan Shambicco: There is a life outside . Riverfield Verlag, Basel 2019, ISBN 978-3-9524906-8-6 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alban work ( Memento from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ CC Czwalina Consulting AG
  3. ^ Jean-Martin Büttner: He helps managers and Muslims. Portrait. In: Tages-Anzeiger . March 10, 2011, accessed May 2, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Johannes Czwalina: Memorial for refugees at the time of World War II. Riehen Memorial, accessed on May 2, 2017 .
  5. ^ Valerie Wendenburg: An emotional chapter of history. (PDF) In: Tachles , The Jewish Weekly Magazine. May 6, 2011, accessed May 2, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Article Riehener Zeitung November 6, 2015 in the download area of ​​the memorial
personal data
SURNAME Czwalina, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and business consultant
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin