Klaus Tanner

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Klaus Tanner (born December 27, 1953 in Münchberg in Upper Franconia) is a German theologian and professor of systematic theology and ethics at the University of Heidelberg . From 2012 to 2019 he was head of the research facility of the Evangelical Study Community (FEST).

Life

Klaus Tanner was born in 1953 in Münchberg in Upper Franconia. He studied Protestant theology in Neuendettelsau, Munich and Heidelberg. After completing his studies, he became assistant and academic advisor a. Currently at the Institute for Systematic Theology and Ethics at LMU Munich. There he received his doctorate in 1989, and in 1993 he received his habilitation in Munich.

Then Klaus Tanner entered the church service of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria and was vicar in Starnberg, then ordained a pastor. In 1993 he was appointed to the professorship for systematic theology in the philosophical faculty of the TU Dresden . In 1997 he moved to the theological faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg as professor for systematic theology and ethics (succeeding Aleksander Radler ) . Since 2008 he has held the thematically comparable professorship at Heidelberg University. On May 23, 2007, Klaus Tanner was elected a member ( matriculation number 7148 ) of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Research and Teaching

Tanner researches and teaches the relationship between Protestantism and political culture in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as basic questions and the history of ethics. With current reference, he deals with medical and bioethics from a theological point of view.

Sociopolitical offices

Klaus Tanner is involved in politics and church politics. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Working Group of Protestant Entrepreneurs (AEU), and has been a member of the Federal Government's Central Ethics Commission for Stem Cell Research since 2002. The Max Planck Society research association has an ethics council, of which Tanner has been a member since 2016.

Tanner advises various parliamentary groups in the Bundestag on ethical issues.

literature

  • Michael Kaasch and Joachim Kaasch (eds.): Leopoldina . Newly elected members 2007. German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina e. V. - National Academy of Sciences, Halle (Saale) 2008 ( leopoldina.org [PDF; 2.2 MB ; accessed on December 18, 2017]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christopher Nunn: Klaus Tanner. Retrieved December 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Member entry by Klaus Tanner (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ "When it comes to your neighbor, you have to help" . ( rnz.de [accessed December 17, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Tanner, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and professor for systematic theology and ethics at Heidelberg University
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Münchberg in Upper Franconia