Markus Dröge

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Markus Dröge (2017)
Markus Dröge (2017)

Markus Dröge (born October 16, 1954 in Washington, DC ) is a German Protestant theologian . From 2009 to 2019 he was bishop of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO) .

Live and act

Markus Dröge is the son of the diplomat Heinz Dröge , grew up in Washington, Bonn , Paris and Brussels and studied at the universities of Bonn , Munich and Tübingen . In 1983 he became vicar in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . In 1985 he took his first pastorate in the parish of Koblenz-kart home and moved in 1994 to the parish Koblenz -Mitte.

In 2004 the district synod Koblenz elected Dröge to the office of superintendent of one of the largest church districts of the Rhenish church. On 15 May 2009 Dröge was as successor to Wolfgang Huber of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian bishop of the Evangelical Church Oberlausitz (EKBO), headquartered in Berlin selected and introduced to his new post on 14 November 2009, which he held until November 16 Exercised in 2019. His successor is Christian Stäblein .

In his new position as bishop he led the reform process initiated by his predecessor in the EKBO, which as an interim result, among other things, in the Ten Theses he was responsible for in 2014 : “Live gifted - change courageously” (results of the consultation process “Which Church Tomorrow? “) Ended .

During the Reformation anniversary year 2017 , the EKBO hosted the German Evangelical Church Congress in Berlin and Potsdam. Among other things, Dröge preached the sermon at the opening service in front of the Reichstag.

Dröge is married and has three children.

Dröge's grandfather, Alfred Dobbert , as a member of the SPD's Reichstag , voted against the Enabling Act of March 24, 1933 .

further activities

In 1999 Dröge received his doctorate in theology and, in addition to his pastoral duties, took on a teaching position for systematic theology at the University of Koblenz-Landau in 2000 . From 2002 to 2004 he completed his training as a systemic consultant at the Institute for Family Therapy in Weinheim . From 2007 to 2009 he was also chairman of the board of trustees of the Evangelical Academy in the Rhineland .

Dröge was chairman of the supervisory board of the Evangelical Development Service (eed) from June 2010 to October 2012 . On November 11, 2014, Dröge was elected by the EKD Synod to succeed Nikolaus Schneider in the EKD Council.

Positions

Ecumenism

Markus Dröge is committed to strengthening ecumenism in the Christian churches. During his time as superintendent in Koblenz, he was a co-founder of the Christian Churches Working Group there . As bishop in Berlin, he introduced the divine service for persecuted Christians all over the world in 2010, which is celebrated every year in the Bishop's Church of St. Mary in Berlin-Mitte on Reminiscere , the second Sunday in the Passion time before Easter . Many EKBO parishes follow this and also celebrate such services on this day.

Together with Archbishop Heiner Koch from the Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin , he introduced the possibility of denominational, cooperative religious instruction in Berlin. On October 6, 2017, he publicly signed the joint agreement with the Archbishop, which in its concrete form is the first of its kind in Germany.

Dröge was a sharp critic of the lifting of the excommunication of the four bishops of the Pius Brotherhood by Pope Benedict XVI. : "Here the ecumenical pain threshold has been clearly exceeded." Pope Benedict does not continue to write "the line of the opening of the Second Vatican Council ", but rather direct "the Roman Church into a traditionalism".

He is also committed to dialogue with other religious communities: Shortly after taking office as bishop, he created a new pastoral post in the Berlin Mission , which is intended to promote interreligious dialogue, especially with Muslim and Jewish communities, but also with other religions.

People on the run

Bishop Dröge advocates a humane and positive asylum and integration policy based on the principle of charity . He personally campaigned for a solution to the refugee situation in Berlin , which was exacerbated by a hunger strike on Pariser Platz in front of the Brandenburg Gate and later by the occupation of Oranienplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg. After he visited the hunger strikers in October 2013, EKBO congregations took in many refugees.

With a bishop's word at the EKBO autumn synod in 2014, he suggested the initiation of the St. Simeon refugee church in Berlin; it was founded on October 8, 2015.

Confrontation with AfD and right-wing populism

Markus Dröge is considered a sharp critic of the AfD and its image of man. He also rejects any form of right-wing populism and misanthropic statements against strangers and alleged others and has spoken out more frequently. Nevertheless, he was one of the very few church representatives in Germany who was willing to take part in a public discussion with a representative of the " Christians in the AfD ". Despite some severe criticism, the event took place at the 2017 Kirchentag in Berlin. The AfD representative, Anette Schultner, resigned from the party five months after the panel discussion at which Dröge accused the “Christians in the AfD” that they were merely serving as a fig leaf for the right-wing circles in the AfD.

Board memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • “Witness” of the resurrection. Systematic considerations on the Easter sermon . In: Sigrid Brandt, Bernd Oberdorfer (Ed.), Resonances. Theological contributions. Michael Welker on his 50th birthday , Wuppertal, 1997, pp. 26–45
  • Church in the diversity of the spirit. The christological and pneumatological justification of the church in Jürgen Moltmann (also: Heidelberg, University, dissertation 1999), Neukirchen-Vluyn, 2000
  • In no other way. Only in Jesus Christ does the church find unity: Nikolaus von Kues and ecumenism , in: zeitzeichen 4/2001, 42f.
  • Thomas Darscheid, Markus Dröge, Ulrich Offerhaus (eds.): Discover the Koblenz Cusanus. Contributions from the Cusanus year 2001 in Koblenz , Koblenz, 2001
  • Markus Dröge, Erich Engelke, Andreas Metzing, Ulrich Offerhaus, Thomas M. Schneider, Rolf Stahl (eds.): Pragmatic, Prussian, Protestant ... The Evangelical Community of Koblenz in the field of tension between Rhenish Catholicism and Prussian church politics . Series of publications by the Rhenish Church History Association, vol. 161, Bonn, 2003
  • "Where are the dead?" Basic lines of an evangelical eschatology . In: Hans-Gerd Wirtz: Death - and what comes after? , Trier, 2005, 63-85
  • Be different in friendship. New opportunities in the “Ecumenical Profile” , EvTh, Vol. 67, 2007, Issue 4., 307–315
  • Jürgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope . In: Christian Danz (Ed.): Canon of theology. 45 key texts in portrait , WBH, Darmstadt, 2009, 302–310
  • A fundamental theological problem , in: FAZ No. 36, February 12, 2009, p. 8.
  • Volkskirche as a model for the future. Reflections on the reform processes in the Evangelical Church . In: Petra Bosse-Huber , Christian Drägert (Ed.): Faith and Responsibility . Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Nikolaus Schneider. Neukirchen-Vluyn 2012, 145–156
  • On the way to reconciliation. In conversation with Markus Dröge , Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 2013
  • Why Interfaith Dialogue? - Visions, requirements and chances of the Christian-Islamic dialogue against the Berlin experience background . In: Roland Herpich, Andreas Goetze (ed.): Tolerance instead of truth ?. Challenge of interreligious dialogue. Berlin Series for Ecumenism, Mission and Dialogue , Volume 1. Berlin 2013, 18–30
  • A scholar in search of the kingdom of God, sermon on Luke 10, 25-37 , in: God's Spirit and Human Spirit, ed. Gregor Etzelmüller , Heike Springhart , Leipzig 2013, 17-22
  • "How is peace?" 80 years after Dietrich Bonhoeffer's peace speech at the ecumenical conference on Fanö , epd documentation issue 39–2014, 18–25
  • Karl Barth Prize for Michael Welker : laudation, held at the festive award ceremony on July 9, 2016 in Basel , in: BThZ 33rd vol., Issue 2, 2016, 317–325
  • Gain orientation. The importance of an empirically informed practical theology for the task of church leadership , in: practical theology. Journal of Practice in Church, Society and Culture, 3–2016, 152–158
  • What do we Christians have, what does the Evangelical Church have to oppose to growing right-wing populism? Lecture at the synod of the Teltow-Zehlendorf church district, March 25, 2017, in: BThZ, 35th year, issue 1, 2018, 139–157
  • Documentation of the panel discussion of the German Evangelical Church Congress in Berlin with Anette Schultner on May 25, 2017 , in :. W. Thielmann (ed.), Alternative for Christians? The AfD and its split relationship to religion , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2017, 165–192.
  • Christians need to get involved , Cicero-online , September 28, 2017.
  • Can you argue objectively with right-wing populists? , in: Risk and Trust - Risk and Trust , eds. Heike Springhart, Günter Thomas, Festschrift for Michael Welker on his 70th birthday, Leipzig, 2017, 317–324

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Evangelical Church in the Rhineland: EKBO Synod: Markus Dröge new regional bishop in Berlin. In: http://www.ekir.de/www/service/5719.php . Retrieved January 15, 2018 .
  2. ^ EKBO: Reform process of the EKBO 2007-2017 - A portrait (PDF). Retrieved January 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ EKBO: Ten theses: "Live gifted - change courageously". Retrieved January 15, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Birte Mensing: Opening service in front of the Reichstag. Association for the Promotion of the German Evangelical Church Congress, accessed on October 9, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Dröge: Vita ( Memento from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), ekbo.de, accessed on February 24, 2016.
  6. ^ Negotiations of the German Reichstag. Retrieved May 28, 2017 .
  7. ↑ "Otto Wels' speech is an invitation to all of us" | SPD parliamentary group . In: SPD parliamentary group . March 21, 2013 ( spdfraktion.de [accessed May 28, 2017]).
  8. ^ Bishop Markus Dröge on the Kirchentag - The Church. Retrieved May 28, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Berlin Bishop Dröge elected to the EKD Council , ekd.de, press release of November 11, 2014.
  10. ↑ Churches offer religious instruction together. evangelisch.de, accessed on October 9, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Berlin churches cooperate in the subject of religion. Catholic.de, accessed on October 9, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Claudia Keller: Interreligious Dialogue: Churches and Muslims have long sought dialogue. Der Tagesspiegel, accessed on October 9, 2018 .
  13. ^ Dpa: Bishop Dröge: "Take people seriously in their religion". dpa, accessed on October 9, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Thomas Schneider: Berlin bishop installs pastors for mosques. AG Welt, accessed on October 9, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Julia Haak: Evangelical Church: Europe-wide unique refugee church in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Berliner Zeitung, accessed on October 9, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Albert Funk: Kirchentag and AfD: With the enemy on the podium. Der Tagesspiegel, accessed on October 9, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Reinhard Bingener: Discussion at the Kirchentag: Love and let love. FAZ, accessed on October 9, 2018 . ; Documentation of the panel discussion of the German Evangelical Church Congress in Berlin with Anette Schultner on May 25, 2017, in :. W. Thielmann (ed.), Alternative for Christians? The AfD and its split relationship to religion , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2017, 165–192
  18. ↑ Maria Fiedler: AfD exit: "There was enough". Der Tagesspiegel, accessed on October 9, 2018 .
  19. ↑ http://www.gcjz-berlin.de/?page_id=1357
predecessor Office successor
Wolfgang Huber Bishop of the Ev. Church
Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia
2009 - 2019 		Christian Stäblein
personal data
SURNAME Dröge, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and bishop
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC