Konrad Raiser
Konrad Raiser (born January 25, 1938 in Magdeburg ) is a German Protestant theologian. He was General Secretary of the World Council of Churches from August 1992 to December 2003 .
life and work
Raiser, son of the lawyer Ludwig Raiser , grew up in Schwerin , Göttingen , Bad Godesberg and Tübingen . After graduating from high school in Tübingen in 1957, he studied Protestant theology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , the Bethel University of Applied Sciences , the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg and the University of Zurich . He passed his first theological exam in Tübingen in 1963. From 1963 to 1965, Raiser was vicar of the Württemberg regional church. He then studied sociology and social psychology at Harvard University in 1965/66 . Then Raiser was a research assistant at the chair for practical theology of the Protestant theological faculty in Tübingen, where he received his doctorate in 1970 with a dissertation on the social philosophy of George Herbert Mead .
In March 1967 Konrad Raiser and Bertha Elisabeth married Freiin von Weizsäcker , daughter of the physicist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker . The marriage resulted in four sons.
The theologian became a member of the World Council of Churches in Geneva in 1969 , where he was appointed deputy general secretary in 1973. Konrad Raiser was appointed professor for systematic theology at the Protestant theological faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum in 1983. At the same time, he was director of the faculty's ecumenical institute. In 1990 he signed the “ Berlin Declaration by Christians from Both German States ” on behalf of an ecumenical initiative group to which Ulrich Duchrow , Heino Falcke and Joachim Garstecki also belonged . In August 1992, Raiser was elected general secretary of the World Council of Churches. He took office in January 1993 and was confirmed in office in 1996 and 2002. Raiser has been living in Berlin since 2004.
Awards
Konrad Raiser holds honorary doctorates from the Budapest Theological Academy (1992), the University of Geneva (1996) and the University of Hamburg (2010). The Federal Cross of Merit with a star and shoulder ribbon was awarded to him by Federal President Johannes Rau in 2004.
Web links
- Literature by and about Konrad Raiser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography - Konrad Raiser. World Council of Churches , January 2004, accessed July 1, 2012 .
- "How are evangelical?" In: ksta.de . M. DuMont Schauberg , June 8, 2007, accessed July 1, 2012 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ epd documentation 12/1990 . 1990, p. 17-21 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raiser, Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian, professor of systematic theology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |