Josef Sayer

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Josef Sayer at the German Catholic Day 2008 in Osnabrück

Josef Sayer (born December 19, 1941 in Apatin , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is a German , Roman Catholic theologian , clergyman and development worker . From 1997 to 2012 he was Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Misereor .

Life

After his expulsion and flight to Germany between 1945 and 1947, he studied philosophy and theology in Rome and Tübingen as well as social sciences and history in Constance . At the social science faculty of the University of Konstanz he received his doctorate in 1975 with the work Social Change in the Church - an empirical study on socialization in the priestly profession . From 1968 to 1980 he pursued an academic career which included various positions as a research assistant. He was assistant to Bruno Schlegelberger at the theological seminar of the University of Education in Berlin .

From 1980 he worked as a development worker in the Peruvian Andes and after his ordination in 1982 in Cuzco as a pastor in a slum parish in Lima . He was involved in building church communities, accompanying the rural population in their confrontation with Western culture as well as with Marxism .

In 1988 he received a call on the Chair of Pastoral Theology at the Theological Faculty of the University of Friborg . Since December 1, 1997, he has been the general manager and chairman of the board of Misereor in Aachen , he retired on March 23, 2012 and was replaced by Pirmin Spiegel . On his 70th birthday in 2012, he was presented with the Horizon World Church . The authors include two cardinals, five German bishops and four theology professors from the University of Tübingen.

From 2001 to 2007 he was a member of the Council for Sustainable Development . He is a member of the Cor Unum Pontifical Council .

honors and awards

Publications (selection)

  • (with Bruno Schlegelberger and Karl Weber): From Medellín to Puebla. Conversations with Latin American theologians , Düsseldorf 1980.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.misereor.de: New leadership at Misereor . Article of March 23, 2012 ( Memento of May 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ DNB 1017501033/04
  4. ↑ Former council members ( Memento of March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), website of the German Council for Sustainable Development, accessed on June 27, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Sayer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, university professor, development worker, general manager and chairman of the board of Misereor
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Apatin , Yugoslavia, today part of Serbia