Klaus D. Hildemann

Klaus D. Hildemann (* 1942 in Kappeln ) is a German Protestant theologian and diaconal scholar .

Hildemann studied Protestant theology in Kiel and Basel , and was ordained in 1969 in Schleswig . In addition to his first pastor's office in Munkbrarup near Flensburg , which he held until 1973, he studied education , philosophy, sociology and psychology and received his doctorate in 1976.

After heading the specialist school for curative educators at the Alsterdorfer Anstalten in Hamburg, Hildemann was appointed Managing Director of the Theodor Fliedner Foundation in Mülheim an der Ruhr on September 20, 1981 , where he worked until April 2011. After German reunification, he also built the Theodor Fliedner works in Saxony and Brandenburg . His academic career began in 1982 with teaching assignments at the Ruhr University in Bochum and at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

In the winter semester of 1996 he was appointed honorary professor for practical theology and diaconal studies by the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn . There he set up the Institute for Interdisciplinary and Applied Diaconal Studies, which in 2001 launched a master's degree in “Social Management”. Hildemann heads the institute as director.

Hildemann's publications focus on voluntary welfare , the future of the welfare state and the management of social enterprises. In 2004 he was awarded the Johann Hinrich Wichern Prize for his services in the cybernetic field and his commitment to diaconal studies. In 2010 he received the coat of arms of the community of Hohndorf / Saxony.

Publications (excerpt)

• Conditions of learning of old people in status transitions , Phil. Dissertation, Kiel 1976
• The village of the old and the young. A community for disabled and non-disabled, old and young people. In: Impulse, Heft 4, 11, 1989, pages 20-21
• Diakonia in transition, structural, psycho-hygienic and pastoral problems and tasks in a changing diakonia. In: Pastoral-Theologie, 85th year, 1996, edition 9, pages 379–390 * Farewell to the supply state? / Renewal of social responsibility between individualization, market and civic engagement , Mülheim an der Ruhr, 2000, ISBN 3-9807062-0- 6th
• The future of the social. Solidarity in competition , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig, 2001, ISBN 3-374-01862-9
• Religion, Church, Islam. A social and diaconal challenge , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig, 2003, ISBN 3-374-02045-3
• Free welfare. Your development between order and market. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig, 2004, ISBN 978-3-374-02219-9
• Personality and leadership responsibility , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig, 2010, ISBN 978-3-374-02693-7 ; Pope Science Publishers, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89967-604-4
• Charity and Organization. Publication of the Scientific Society for Theology , Ev. Verlagsanstalt Leipzig, 2012, Volume 37, ISBN 978-3-374-03108-5

Web links

• Theodor Fliedner Foundation: Klaus D. Hildemann - excerpt from the bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of Diakonie, 1981
2. ↑ Institute for Interdisciplinary and Applied Diaconal Studies at the University of Bonn ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.