Manfred Deselaers

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Manfred Deselaers (born May 19, 1955 in Düsseldorf ) is a German Catholic priest .

Life and education

After graduating from high school in 1974, Deselaers first studied law for one semester in Bonn . He then went to Israel for a year and a half with the Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste, among others with Martin H. Jung . He took a language course at Kibbutz Dovrat. He then worked in a home for handicapped children in Jerusalem . He then studied theology in Tübingen from 1976 to 1981 and in Chicago from 1978 to 1979. In 1983 he was ordained a priest in Aachen. From 1991 to 1996 he did his doctorate at the Pontifical Theological Academy in Cracow . The title of his dissertation was: God and Evil with regard to the biography and self-testimonies of Rudolf Höß , the commandant of Auschwitz . In 1994 he received training as a tour guide at the State Memorial in Auschwitz-Birkenau . In 1998 he completed his training as a Holocaust Educator at the International School of Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem , Jerusalem.

job

At first he was a chaplain in Mönchengladbach . Here he also began to get involved in the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation . In 1989 he went to Poland as part of the German-Polish reconciliation and first learned the Polish language at the Catholic University of Lublin . Since 1990 he has lived in the parish of St. Mariae Himmelfahrt in the city of Oświęcim (Auschwitz). There he dedicates himself to the German-Polish and Christian-Jewish reconciliation work. Since 2008 he has been vice-president of the Cracow foundation Centrum Dialogu i Modlitwy (= Center for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim).

Reconciliation pilgrimage to Russia

In autumn 2017 Manfred Deselaers went on a pilgrimage to Russia for reconciliation.

Awards

Fonts

  • "My God, why did you leave me ...?": Meditation on the Way of the Cross in Auschwitz , Aachen: Einhard-Verl. 1995, ISBN 3-930701-00-6 kart.
  • Bóg a zło: w świetle biografii i wypowiedzi Rudolfa Hössa komendanta Auschwitz / Manfred Deselaers. Przekł. Juliusz Zychowicz , Kraków: Wydawn. WAM, Ksieża Jezuici, 1999, ISBN 83-7097-461-9 Pp.
  • And you never had a remorse? , Leipzig: Benno-Verl., 2001, 2., new edit. Ed., ISBN 3-7462-1474-2 Pp.
  • The perspective of the perpetrators - the example of Commandant Rudolf Höß , in: Dialogue on the threshold of Auschwitz - Kraków: Wyd. UNUM, Vol. 1, 2003, ISBN 83-89256-42-8 kart.
  • Bóg i Auschwitz: o Edycie Stein , wizycie papieża Benedykta XVI i Bogu w mrokach dziejów / pod redakcją Manfreda Deselaersa, Leszka Łysienia i Jana Nowaka , Kraków: Wydawn. UNUM, 2007, ISBN 978-83-89256-76-8

Movies

  • Renovabis, solidarity action of German Catholics with the people in Central and Eastern Europe: civilization of love. The Center for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim / Auschwitz , a film by Christof Wolf with Jan Nowak and Manfred Deselaers, Loyola Productions Munich GmbH 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Center for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim (Auschwitz) Version of November 20, 2011
  2. ↑ Manfred Deselaers: DVD on the pilgrimage of reconciliation to Russia , accessed on April 24, 2018.
  3. ↑ Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft awards the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to Pastor Manfred Deselaers.Retrieved on February 1, 2018

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personal data
SURNAME Deselaers, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic priest
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf