Klaus-Dieter Kottnik

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Klaus-Dieter Karl Kottnik (born May 24, 1952 in Stuttgart ) is a Protestant theologian from Württemberg and was President of the Diaconal Work of the Evangelical Church in Germany from 2006 to 2010 .

Life

After graduating from high school, Kottnik studied Protestant theology from 1972 to 1979 at the Theological Seminary of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches in Hamburg-Horn, at the University of Hamburg and at the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tübingen . He was ordained in 1979 .

This was followed by the training vicariate until 1982 in Stuttgart- Rohr . From 1982 to 1984 he worked as a vicar at the Diakonisches Werk Württemberg .

From 1984 to 1991 Kottnik was the parish priest in Riedenberg . In the period from 1987 to 1991, after additional training in Pullach, he was also press pastor in the Degerloch dean's office , television training and further training in family therapy also took place during this time.

From 1991 to January 2007 Kottnik was theological director and chairman of the Diakonie Stetten , Kernen in Remstal . In addition, from July 2005 to February 2006, he was chairman of the board of the Evangelical Diakoniewerk Schwäbisch Hall .

Right from the start of his work in Stetten, Kottnik campaigned for the interests of mentally and physically disabled people in various committees. From 2002 to 2007 he was the first chairman of the Federal Association of Protestant Disability Aid (BeB) .

Klaus-Dieter Kottnik was elected President of the Diaconal Work of the EKD on October 19, 2006 to succeed Jürgen Gohde and took up this position on February 1, 2007. After three and a half years at the helm of the Diakonisches Werk, Kottnik officially resigned from his position on September 30, 2010 after a suspicion of felt became known "for health reasons".

Since November 2017, Kottnik has been chairman of the Association of the German Evangelical Station Mission .

Kottnik is married and has two children.

position

When he took office as President of the Diakonisches Werk, Kottnik positioned diakonia as the social face of the church. Diakonie must take a clear and credible position for disadvantaged people.

In April 2008, Kottnik came under fire across Germany for wage dumping. "Church employees must apply for Hartz IV" was the headline of Spiegel Online on April 28, 2008, referring to ARD research, according to which the Diakonie employs staff who earn so little that they also have to make use of Hartz IV benefits . However, Kottnik denied that there was systematic social dumping in the Diakonie.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kottnik gives up after an affair ; News from the Stuttgarter Zeitung dated September 27, 2010
  2. ^ Diakonie President Kottnik resigns ; Report from the Evangelical Press Service dated September 27, 2010 ( memento of the original from October 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on September 28, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.epd.de
  3. ^ Bahnhofsmission.de: Bundesverband der Evangelischen Bahnhofsmission elects new chairman (December 9, 2017) ; accessed on July 24, 2019
  4. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Kottnik is pushing the pace of reform ( memento of the original from November 22, 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. , epd social , February 2, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.epd.de
  5. ↑ Church employees must apply for Hartz IV , Spiegel Online , April 28, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Kottnik, Klaus-Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kottnik, Klaus-Dieter Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart