Congress of Christian Leaders

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Congress of Christian Leaders

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legal form congress
founding 1999 (1st Congress)
Seat Wetzlar
management Board of Directors: Martin Scheuermann (Chairman), Jörg Knoblauch (Deputy Chairman), Rainer Küchler

(Managing Director), Helmut Matthies, Timo Plutschinski, Lorenz Reithmeier

Website www.fuehrungskraeftekongress.de

The Congress of Christian Leaders is an event that takes place every two years at changing locations for people in leadership positions . The organizer is the evangelical news agency idea in cooperation with the company tempus . Horst Marquardt was the chairman of the sponsoring group until 2017 and since then Martin Scheuermann , Jörg Knoblauch is the deputy chairman .

aims

The aim of the congress is, according to the company, to build bridges between the church and management. In a self-presentation it says: “Leading employees in diakonia, churches and parishes get to know modern methods of business and can make them fruitful for their service. Executives in management and administration experience the strengthening power of faith and are challenged to implement the ethics of the Christian message in their workplace. "

history

Congresses and participants

  • 1999, 1,000 participants, Fellbach
  • 2001, January 4th to 6th, 1,400 participants, Kassel
  • 2003, January 16-18, 2,200 participants, Hanover
  • 2005, January 20-22, 2,500 participants, Nuremberg
  • 2007, January 18-20, 3,500 participants, Leipzig
  • 2009, February 26-28, 3,808 participants, Düsseldorf
  • 2011, February 24-26, 3,792 participants, Nuremberg
  • 2013, January 17th to 19th, 3,200 participants, Leipzig
  • 2015, February 26-28, 3,200 participants, Hamburg
  • 2017, February 23-25, 2,900 participants, Nuremberg
  • 2019, February 28 to March 2, 3,250 participants, Karlsruhe
  • 2021, February 11th to 13th, Berlin

2009

Speakers at the congress included a. Jürgen Rüttgers , Joachim Meisner , Claus Hipp and Friedhelm Loh .

2011

Volker Kauder at the congress on February 25, 2011

Speakers at the Nuremberg Congress included a. Volker Kauder , who stood in for Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg , Manfred Maus , Marie-Luise Dött and Prabhu Guptara .

Awards ceremonies

Value price for Christian leaders

Christians, who, according to the organizers, are exemplary in their leadership position, have been awarded the “Value Prize for Christian Leaders” (previously: “Prize for Christian Leaders”) since 2005. For young managers and those who are working towards a management position, the congress offers the special program “U 30”.

Award criteria

The executive to be honored

  • must be a committed Christian,
  • must have done something extraordinary
  • should show Christian values ​​in life and in the position
  • should volunteer missionary and / or diaconal work.

Award winners

2005

In 2005 the baker Karl-Dietmar Plentz from Schwante near Oranienburg was honored for his “excellent economic and missionary commitment”. Plentz owns four bakery branches with 60 employees (as of 2005).

Second place went to the Giessen entrepreneur Klaus Dewald, founder of a freight forwarding company with which he also drives to crisis areas such as Iraq or Afghanistan for humanitarian reasons. He makes five percent of his trips free of charge for good causes.

2007

The award first went to Petra Pientka, owner of the Nolte car dealership in Iserlohn. Pientka took over the company from her mother in 1993, employs 143 people and has a training quota of 23 percent, of which 50 percent will be taken over (as of 2007).

The second prizewinner was Tobias Merckle, who is the director of the Seehaus Leonberg near Stuttgart, who runs the facility "Prison in Free Forms" and in 2013 founded the Hope Bearers Foundation .

2009

In 2009, the entrepreneur Jürg Opprecht from Bern received this award for his commitment in Kyrgyzstan .

The second award winner, company boss Hermann Butting from Wittingen - Knesebeck ( Gifhorn district ), founded an academy in 2004 that offers career orientation and application training for schoolchildren.

The second award winner, Manuela Strohofer from Geiselwind near Nuremberg , and her family turned a former farm into one of the largest truck stops in Europe, the Geiselwind Rasthof on the A3 between Würzburg and Nuremberg. A church has also been built at the rest stop where devotions are offered for tour groups.

2011

On February 24, 2011, the prize was awarded for the fourth time. The prizes went to the entrepreneurs Helmut Mohr ( Selbitz ), the brothers Burkard and Frank Erbacher (Kleinheubach near Aschaffenburg ) and business partners Helmut Rosskopf and Martin Funck.

Helmut Mohr and his company Jomos are one of the few shoe manufacturers who still produce in Germany. Mohr runs his company with Christian values, so the working week begins on Mondays with a 30-minute prayer. Night and Sunday work are only available in exceptional cases. In addition, the entrepreneur ensures that fair wages are paid in the supplier countries.

The Erbacher family has been active as entrepreneurs for many years in a sustainable manner and preserving creation . With the companies of the Erbacher Group, the brothers Burkard and Frank want to ensure that food for humans and animals is available in good quality on a global market.

Helmut Rosskopf and his business partner Martin Funck have turned a carpenter's workshop into an international company that has created 150 jobs in Thuringia and Saxony. At the same time, Rosskopf, as brother Helmut, is a member of the brotherhood in Kloster Volkenroda .

2013

Christian Michel from Cooolcase GmbH received the 2013 award, Markus Bönig from Ordermed the 2013 young talent award. Markus Bönig, Ordermed (Young Talent Award, 2013)

2015

The 2015 award winners were Martin Dürrstein ( Dürr Dental AG ) and Frithjof Karsten ( Diakonia Evangelischer Betreuungs- und Hilfsverein eV ).

2017

The 2017 award winners were Andreas Nau, Friedhelm Seiler and Wilfried Hahn. Managing Director of easySoft. GmbH in Metzingen and Bretten

2019

Michael Hoffmann (Managing Director of the FC Group ) received the 2019 award .

Innovation award

An innovation prize has been awarded since 2019. The award takes place during the “Congress of Christian Leaders”.

Award winners

  • 2019: The theologian Amin Josua and his company “Lightword Productions” developed the computer game “One of the 500”, with which young people can interactively immerse themselves in the world of the Gospels in order to get to know the Bible in a playful way.

criticism

After the event in Hamburg in 2015, Norddeutsche Rundfunk published a critical contribution. It reported, among other things, that an exhibition was held as part of the supporting program of the Congress of Christian Leaders in Hamburg, at which some exhibitors had spread radical fundamentalist views. For example, textbooks for biology were presented there, which aim to refute the theory of evolution by presenting the history of creation . Mission organizations were also represented at this exhibition, promoting the liberation of developing and emerging countries " from the power of Satan ". After this report was broadcast for the first time on the NDR radio program on February 27, 2015, the evangelical Christian media initiative pro was immediately published , which criticized the aforementioned NDR report.

literature

Web links

Commons : Congress of Christian Leaders  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Organizer ( Memento from March 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Spectrum of ideas: When managers feel responsible for God . Wetzlar March 1, 2017, page 25
  3. a b c d e f ideaSpektrum special edition two for the 2009 Congress, graphic on page 2, February 28
  4. News-2009-March. In: charisma-magazin.eu. February 23, 2011, archived from the original on February 25, 2011 ; Retrieved February 25, 2011 .
  5. ^ Christian congress ends with the "Nuremberg Declaration". In: pro-medienmagazin.de. February 26, 2011, archived from the original on February 27, 2011 ; Retrieved February 27, 2011 .
  6. ^ Congress of Christian Leaders: From the Media. In: fuehrungskraeftekongress.de. February 25, 2011, archived from the original on February 25, 2011 ; Retrieved February 25, 2011 .
  7. Does God have a place in the office? - News Print - DIE WELT - Finances - WELT ONLINE. In: welt.de. February 25, 2011, archived from the original on February 25, 2011 ; Retrieved February 25, 2011 .
  8. Ethics and Morals in Business - Publications Article Journals by Professor Martin Beck Dipl. Betriebswirt Management Consulting Pliezhausen Reutlingen Tübingen Stuttgart Baden-Württemberg Germany. In: prof-beck.net. February 25, 2011, archived from the original on February 25, 2011 ; Retrieved February 25, 2011 .
  9. ^ Report ( memento of September 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on fuehrungskraeftekongress.de of July 16, 2013
  10. Management Congress receives positive echo , idea.de, message from March 2, 2015.
  11. ^ Spectrum of ideas: When managers feel responsible for God . Wetzlar March 1, 2017, pages 25–30
  12. As a Christian to be “lights in the world of work”. Congress of Christian Leaders ended - 3,250 participants came , idea-pressedienst.de, message from March 2, 2019.
  13. Congress of Christian Leaders 2021 will take place in Berlin , idea.de, message from May 15, 2019.
  14. ^ Congress of Christian Leaders: From the Media. In: fuehrungskraeftekongress.de. February 25, 2011, archived from the original on February 25, 2011 ; Retrieved February 25, 2011 .
  15. ^ Program of the congress as amended on February 23, 2011 ( Memento from February 27, 2011 on WebCite )
  16. Page no longer available , search in web archives:@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.christlicher-kongress.de
  17. a b "Prize for Christian Leaders" goes to baker from Brandenburg ( Memento from January 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  18. http://seehaus-ev.de/th_gallery/tobias-merckle/
  19. Church representatives appeal to leaders for more responsibility before God ( Memento from March 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  20. PM: Awards for Christian leaders. (PDF) In: fuehrungskraeftekongress.de. February 22, 2011, archived from the original on February 27, 2011 ; Retrieved February 27, 2011 .
  21. ^ Bible computer game awarded , idea.de, article from March 1, 2019.
  22. Scholz supports the congress of radical Christians. In: NDR. February 27, 2015, accessed August 7, 2020 .
  23. NDR finds “radical Christians” in Hamburg. In: pro Christian media magazine. February 27, 2015, accessed August 7, 2020 .