Karl-Heinrich Rudersdorf

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Karl-Heinrich Rudersdorf (born July 10, 1940 , † September 28, 2014 ) was a German journalist , publicist and development worker . He made an important contribution to development policy education and information work.

Life

Rudersdorf studied sociology from 1965 to 1970 . In 1974 he was at Faculty 11 (Philosophy and Social Sciences) of the Free University of Berlin with the dissertation The Development Concept of the World Council of Churches. Origin and development of the concept of development promotion in the World Council of Churches for Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1973 to 1977 he was the editor of the development policy editors of the Evangelical Press Service (epd) in Frankfurt am Main. In 1975 he co-founded the umbrella association for development policy in Baden-Württemberg (DEAB), of which he was a member until 2002. During the war in Afghanistan , from 1978 to 1980 he was the representative of the German Development Service (DED) in Afghanistan .

In 1990 he was co-initiator of the first nationwide education congress “The North-South Conflict - Educational Mission for the Future”, organized by the World University Service . Until 2004, Rudersdorf was head of the Center for Development- Related Education (ZEB) of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg in Stuttgart. In addition, he was co-founder and from 1988 to 2003 head of the state working group School for One World Baden-Württemberg (LAK) as well as initiator of the "Study Support Program for Foreign Students" (STUBE). From 2005 to 2012 he was a board member at ECPAT , where he was responsible for Bread for the World .

He was married to the women's rights activist Kinga von Gyökössy-Rudersdorf and had one child.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The development concept of the World Council of Churches. Origin and development of the concept of development promotion in the World Council of Churches (= SSIP-Schriften . 22). Publishing house of SSIP-Schriften, Saarbrücken 1975.
  • Afghanistan, a Soviet republic? (= rororo . 4643). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1980, ISBN 3-499-14643-6 .
  • Vacation academies, development policy support. Practice report (= time out . 10). World University Service Federal Republic of Germany, Wiesbaden a. a. 1984.

literature

  • Obituary Heiner Rudersdorf . In: Newsletter from ECPAT Germany , September 2014.
  • Heiner Rudersdorf is dead (obituary). In: Newsletter of the umbrella organization for development policy in Baden-Württemberg 4/2014 (October).
  • Karl-Heinrich Rudersdorf died (obituary). In: Circular Education Mission North-South , No. 81 (November 2014), p. 8.

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personal data
SURNAME Rudersdorf, Karl-Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, publicist and development worker
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1940
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 2014