Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg

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Catholic Academy Freiburg

The Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg is an educational institution of the Archdiocese of Freiburg founded in 1956 . It is part of the 24 German Catholic Academies . The Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg is an EMAS -certified company.

history

The initiative to found the Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg came from Archbishop Eugen Seiterich , after preliminary rulings under Archbishops Conrad Gröber and Wendelin Rauch . In 1954 he commissioned the priest and religion teacher Clemens Weis from Karlsruhe to develop a concept for the academy to be founded and to take over its management. In the period that followed, Weis designed a concept that the academy did not want to see as a training center, as a theological college for lay people, or as a retreat house for the educated, but as an “attempt among people to whom the word of the Gospel of Christ and the reality of salvation entrusted to the Church A binding question for personal and professional life is to bring about a frank and fruitful discussion of how far and in what way the demands and life principles of Christianity can be realized today. "

However, after prolonged disagreements with Freiburg Archbishop Seiterich about the funding and location of the academy, Weis was released from his duties in 1955.

Instead, in 1956, Klaus Hemmerle , then still a doctoral student at the University of Freiburg under Bernhard Welte , was commissioned to take over the management of the academy. When he asked what a Catholic Academy was, the answer was: “Meeting of Church and World”.

“It was Hemmerle's particular achievement to provide a philosophical-theological justification for the necessity of the dialogue between church and world, which the academy served. To this end, he transferred to the academy work the conception of the dialogical principle of life, which he adopted from his teacher Bernhard Welte, for whom the dialogical represented the 'basic human situation'. "

In the first few years the Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg pursued the concept of a traveling academy. The first lectures were given in Neckargmünd in 1956. In the following period, offers took place in different cities of the Archdiocese of Freiburg. It was not until 1967 that the Academy received its own conference center in Freiburg.

tasks

As it sees itself, the task of the Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg is to

"To convey orientation knowledge and [...] to make a contribution to value orientation and education. [...] In its work, the academy offers the sciences an open forum and endeavors to bring individual disciplines into conversation with one another and to make their findings and results accessible to a broader public and to discuss them. "

This is done primarily by working on the topics of theology , philosophy , ethics , church , ecumenism , religions , politics , social affairs, sustainability, psychology , history, music, art and culture in conferences, seminars, evening events, exhibitions, readings, concerts and excursions . Sustainability in economy and ecology is a continuous topic.

Catholic Academy today

The Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg today consists of a conference center with its own hotel. In addition to the current director Karsten Kreutzer, there are five other study leaders who are responsible for program planning and design. Every six months there is a so-called focus topic in the academy program that combines individual events from the above-mentioned subject areas under one focus topic. However, other events are also offered within the half-year programs.

Selected conference events are also published by the Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg within its own series or in other publishers.

In the development phase of the diocesan guidelines, study leaders were involved in various subject groups and in the conception group.

Directors

Directors of the academy were or are:

  • Klaus Hemmerle , 1956–1961
  • Helmut Gehrig, 1961–1973
  • Joseph Sauer, 1974–1979
  • Dietmar Bader, 1979–1990
  • Ludwig Wenzler , 1990–2002
  • Thomas Herkert, 2002–2017
  • Karsten Kreutzer, since 2017

literature

  • Oliver Schütz: Meeting of Church and World. The founding of Catholic academies in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1975. Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70251-3 , pp. 207-230.

Web links

Commons : Catholic Academy (Freiburg im Breisgau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Mittmann: Church academies in the Federal Republic . In: Lucian Hölscher (Hrsg.): History of religion in the modern age . tape 4 . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0864-0 , p. 54 .
  2. ↑ See model and framework of the Catholic Academy Freiburg, p. 5
  3. ↑ See Fifth Environmental Declaration 2011 of the Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg.
  4. ↑ Oliver Schütz: Meeting of Church and World. The founding of Catholic academies in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1975 . Paderborn 2004, p. 219.
  5. ↑ Quoted from Oliver Schütz: Encounter of Church and World. The founding of Catholic academies in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1975 . Paderborn 2004, p. 219f.
  6. ↑ Oliver Schütz: Meeting of Church and World. The founding of Catholic academies in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1975 . Paderborn 2004, p. 223.
  7. ↑ Oliver Schütz: Meeting of Church and World. The founding of Catholic academies in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1975 . Paderborn 2004, p. 226.
  8. ↑ Oliver Schütz: Meeting of Church and World. The founding of Catholic academies in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1975 . Paderborn 2004, p. 229.
  9. ↑ Mission statement and framework of the Catholic Academy Freiburg, p. 6
  10. ↑ See model and framework of the Catholic Academy Freiburg, pp. 6–8
  11. ↑ See model and framework of the Catholic Academy Freiburg, p. 8
  12. ↑ Cf. publications of the Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.katholische-akademie-freiburg.de
  13. ↑ Web Commerce GmbH www.w-commerce.de: Diocesan guidelines. Accessed September 4, 2017 (German).
  14. ↑ For the information up to 2002: Catholic Academy Freiburg is 50 years old . In: Badische Zeitung , September 22, 2006.