Johannes Siebner

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Johannes Siebner SJ, 2019

Johannes Siebner SJ (born August 24, 1961 in Berlin ; † July 16, 2020 there ) was a member of the Jesuit order . From 2002 to 2011 he was director of the St. Blasien college in the Black Forest . From 2011 to 2017 he headed the Aloisiuskolleg in Bonn. The Superior General of the Jesuits , Arturo Sosa , announced on November 7, 2016 that he had appointed Father Siebner Provincial of the German Province of the Jesuits. Johannes Siebner took up this position on June 1, 2017.

Life

Johannes Siebner was born in 1961 as the fourth of five children to Margit and Klemens Siebner.

He grew up in a large family in Lichtenrade , a part of what was then the Tempelhof district in the south of Berlin. From 1972 he attended the Canisius College in Berlin and in his free time was involved with the Catholic Student Youth (KSJ).

After graduation in 1980, he enrolled in political science at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin and studied a minor in theology . His real interest, however, still belonged to the work of youth associations and all kinds of political engagement beyond that. In 1982 he worked in Israel in a kibbutz in Western Galilee . It took another year until the decision that led him to the Jesuits in the novitiate in Münster in September 1983 . The two-year novitiate was followed by five semesters of philosophy at the Jesuit College in Munich. Siebner then worked with the Jesuit Refugee Service for a year in Malaysia in a refugee camp for Vietnamese boat people .

In the winter semester of 1988 he began studying theology at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt. After graduating, he moved to Erfurt in 1991 for two years of postgraduate studies . In 1993, one year after his ordination , he became spiritual director of the KSJ Hamburg. Around 550 children and young people are organized there in two large city groups. Siebner also gave a few hours of religious instruction at the Sankt Ansgar School in Hamburg . In autumn 2001, the last seven months of training, the so-called tertiary , followed, which is customary for Jesuits . He spent this time in Australia .

College director

From 2002 to 2011, Johannes Siebner was director of the renowned St. Blasien college , an international Jesuit grammar school in the southern Black Forest with a boarding school for boys and girls. At the same time he was chairman of the Association of Catholic Boarding Schools and Day Boarding Schools (V. K. I. T.) from 2006 to 2009. From there he actively participated in the current debates on education policy. From July 2011 to 2017 he was Rector of the Aloisius College in Bonn-Bad Godesberg.

Provincial

During the 36th General Congregation, at which he was present as a delegate, he was appointed the new Provincial of the German Province of the Jesuits by Superior General Arturo Sosa SJ on November 7, 2016 . He took up this office on June 1, 2017. As Provincial, he made it clear that the order was committed to its tradition in education and upbringing. Due to a serious cancer illness , he was relieved of his duties by the Order General Arturo Sosa in March 2020 . Vice-Provincial Jan Roser took over the representation. Siebner died on July 16, 2020 in the Havelhöhe community hospital in Berlin-Kladow and was buried on July 30 after the Requiem in St. Canisius in Berlin.

Processing of cases of abuse

Johannes Siebner supported victims of abuse cases at the Canisius College, where he himself graduated from high school in 1980. In 2010 cases became known of two Jesuit Fathers who had taught there until 1979 and 1981 respectively. Johannes Siebner had numerous conversations with those affected and their relatives who were secondary affected (family, age groups, employees). He also took responsibility for the institutions and admitted their guilt, with resistance building up inside and outside the church, which he endured.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Johannes Siebner SJ is the new Provincial of the German Province of the Jesuits. In: jesuiten.org. November 7, 2016, accessed January 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Margit Siebner-Cohn: Father's books and mother's cigars were my salvation . In: Tina Hüttl, Alexander Meschnig (ed.): You won't get us. Hidden as children - Jewish survivors tell . Munich: Piper, 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-05521-5 , pp. 193-208. Short biography on page 208.
  3. ^ Managers in the name of the Lord. In: Badische Zeitung , May 21, 2008.
    Christian Füller: A way out for private schools? What they can do better, what they fail. Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89684-077-6 .
  4. ↑ Joachim Heinz: Johannes Siebner SJ: I was never a "lonesome cowboy". The future Provincial of the German Jesuits in conversation. In: jesuiten.org. April 6, 2017, accessed January 28, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Provincial seriously ill - new leadership for German Jesuits. In: kathisch.de . March 20, 2020, accessed July 16, 2020 .
  6. ^ Provincial Johannes Siebner has passed away. In: jesuiten.org. July 16, 2020, accessed July 16, 2020 .
  7. ^ German Jesuit Provincial Johannes Siebner buried in Berlin . In: kathisch.de , July 30, 2020, accessed on the same day.
  8. ^ Badische Zeitung: The St. Blasien College mourns the loss of the former headmaster Johannes Siebner - St. Blasien - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Canisius College: The perpetrator was passed on. Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Johannes Siebner fought against abuse - and stood up for others. Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Siebner, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit, Director of the St. Blasien College, Provincial of the German Jesuit Province
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2020
Place of death Berlin-Kladow