Johannes K. Rücker
Johannes Konrad Rücker (mostly Johannes K. Rücker or Johannes Rücker ; born January 24, 1949 in Nienburg / Weser ) is a German adult educator .
From 2000 to 2006 he was chairman of the Catholic Federal Association for Adult Education (KBE) and until his retirement on May 1, 2012, he was director of the Catholic rural community college "Schorlemer Alst" in Freckenhorst .
Life
Youth and education
Johannes Konrad Rücker grew up in the Ruhr area in Wattenscheid- Sevinghausen , where he also went to the Bartholomäus elementary school. From 1960 to 1966 he attended the Pestalozzi Realschule in Wattenscheid , where he graduated with a secondary school leaving certificate and then continued his education at the Märkische Schule , where he passed the Abitur in 1968 because of the short school years at that time .
He then did his military service in the German Navy in the 1st Marine Training Battalion Eckernförde until 1969 and for radio operator training at the Mürwik Naval Telecommunications School in Flensburg - Mürwik . Rücker later completed further military exercises as well as specialist training as a telecommunications officer . He is a lieutenant in the sea of the reserve (Leutnant zSdR).
From 1969 to 1972 Rücker studied economics at the Ruhr University in Bochum and from 1972 to 1974 economics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster with a degree in economics .
Professional activity
Johannes K. Rücker worked professionally on several levels of Catholic adult education in Germany. From 1975 to 1977 he worked as a pedagogical employee of the state working group for Catholic adult education in the state of Lower Saxony for the field of social seminars in the Diocese of Osnabrück and in the Vechta office . Then he was at the social seminar of the Diocese of Osnabrück until 1981 advisor for political youth and adult education. From 1981 to 1990 Rücker worked as a national tutor for the Working Group on Catholic Social Educational Institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany (AKSB) . He was temporarily also a member of the national board of the AKSB.
In 1991 Johannes K. Rücker moved to the diocese of Münster , where he headed the adult education department in the Episcopal Vicariate of Münster until 2006. He was also the head of the diocesan education center in Münster and the episcopal representative for adult education. During this time he was also a member of the board of the State Working Group for Catholic Adult Education in North Rhine-Westphalia eV (since 2005 State Working Group for Catholic Adult and Family Education in North Rhine-Westphalia eV [LAG KEFB]).
From 2000 to 2006, Rücker was chairman of the Catholic Federal Association for Adult Education (KBE) . In this office he was the successor to Erwin Müller-Ruckwitt .
In 2006 he was appointed as the successor to Hermann Flothkötter as director of the Catholic rural community college "Schorlemer Alst" in Freckenhorst . There he was also head of Department 1 “Politics - Media Competence - Communication”. Rücker was known for the fact that he regularly brought well-known speakers not only from the narrower Catholic spectrum to the rural adult education center. He did not shy away from controversial events. In 2007, during the one-day seminar “Jewish Life in Germany”, a scandal broke out when the Jewish religious scholar Yuval Lapide criticized the attitudes of Catholic Christians and their church in Germany and especially in Poland towards members of the Jewish faith community. After an hour and a half discussion, some of the participants, among them Polish Christians, left the meeting room prematurely in protest. On April 30, 2012, Johannes K. Rücker retired. His successor as director of the Catholic country folk high school in Freckenhorst was graduate theologian Michael Gennert, who headed the Christian educational institution “Die Hegge” in Willebadessen until he moved to Freckenhorst .
As a specialist author, Rücker worked for the Federal Agency for Civic Education , among others .
Private life
Johannes Konrad Rücker is married, has two grown children and lives in Recke . There he is mainly involved in the Catholic parish of St. Dionysius . He is an elected member of the parish council and as such became a member of the transitional administrative committee of the new parish of St. Dionysius on September 25, 2016 in the course of the merging of the old parish of St. Dionysius with the Steinbeck parish of St. Philippus and Jacobus. As a volunteer webmaster and editor , he still looks after their website and those of affiliated institutions. From 2007 to 2018, Rücker was also chairman of the board of trustees of the non-denominational hospice foundation Haus St. Benedikt. Since May 2012 Rücker has been chairman of the rural family counseling in the Diocese of Münster eV and since April 2012 deputy chairman of the Catholic rural people movement (KLB) .
In addition, Johannes K. Rücker is involved as the fast evening elder of the fast evening Rählmannsiedlung and has been chairman of the Recke eV cultural association since 2014
In addition, as a friend of old motorcycles , Rücker was co-organizer and moderator of the Steinbeck Oldtimer Meetings in the 1990s and 2000s , in which up to 100 exhibitors took part.
Rücker, who plays several instruments ( trumpet , clarinet , double bass and banjo ), is a fan of traditional jazz . Occasionally, he also appears publicly with jazz performances as an amateur, mostly at events at the Freckenhorst Landvolkshochschule.
Fonts
- Personality, solidarity, subsidiarity - basic positions of Catholic social teaching . Seminar model for educational work , series of documents, manuscripts, protocols (volume 5), Working Group for Catholic Social Educational Institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn 1980
- Editing together with Johannes Schillo : Aims and tasks of political education. Policy papers of the AKSB , Association for the Promotion of Catholic and Social Educational Institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn 1988
- Basic knowledge of politics and society. Working aids for political education, Volume 3: The order of the economy , Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 1997
- Basic knowledge of politics and society. Working aids for political education, Volume 4: The order of society , Federal Center for Political Education, Bonn 1997
- as editor together with Ulrich Oskamp: It's about survival. Food production and renewable raw materials . Contributions from politics, science and social ethics , Dialogverlag, Münster 2009 ( ISBN 978-3-941462-13-7 )
- “The truth will make you free” (Joh. 8.32) - Faith and reason in adult education . In: In God's footsteps: Much done - much to do. 60 years of the Catholic rural community college “Anton Heinen” Hardehausen , Hardehausen 2009, p. 103 ff.
Rücker also worked on volume 2 of the presentation published by Werner Thissen , The Diocese of Münster (Münster 1993).
Web links
- Rücker's Site , private web presence of Johannes Konrad Rücker
- Interview with Rücker at the project conference Future shopping - credible business with the churches on December 3rd and 4th, 2009 in Osnabrück on YouTube
- Query on Johannes K. Rücker in the FIS Education Literature Database ( specialist portal pedagogy )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c autobiographical information on Rücker's site ; Retrieved November 13, 2011
- ↑ a b c d e Short portrait on the website of the Catholic rural community college "Schorlemer Alst" ; Retrieved November 12, 2011
- ↑ Max Babeliowsky: Seminar ends with scandal . In: Westfälische Nachrichten (online version from July 15, 2007; accessed on November 13, 2011)
- ^ Members of the parish council of St. Dionysius ( Memento from July 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Information on the administrative committee of the Catholic parish of St. Dionysius Recke ; accessed on May 30, 2017
- ↑ cf. the imprint of the website of the parish of St. Dionysius ; Retrieved November 13, 2011
- ↑ NN (press release): Change of management in the hospice foundation - Ludger Schröer replaces Johannes K. Rücker at the head of the board of trustees. In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from February 7, 2018
- ↑ cf. also the website of the Haus St. Benedikt hospice foundation
- ↑ Web presence of the fast evening Rählmannsiedlung ; accessed on May 8, 2017
- ↑ Board of Directors of the Recke Cultural Association ; accessed on May 8, 2017
- ↑ cf. about -weß- (Heinrich Weßling): From the hayloft back to the street In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from June 19, 2007
- ↑ Information on traditional jazz on Rücker's site ; Retrieved November 13, 2011
- ↑ here for example with the Pickled Onions jazz band, video on YouTube ; Retrieved November 13, 2011
- ↑ at the open air concert on Whitsunday 2011, video on YouTube ; Retrieved November 19, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rücker, Johannes K. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rücker, Johannes Konrad (full name); Rücker, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German adult educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nienburg / Weser |