Martin Young

Martin Junge (* 1961 in Chile ) is a Lutheran pastor and has been General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Geneva since 2010 .

Life

Martin Junge was born the third of five children to an Austrian mother and a Chilean father. After studying theology at the University of Göttingen and completing a visiting vicariate in Hanover , he was ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile (Iglesia Evangélica Luterana en Chile - IELCH) in 1989 .

From 1989 to 2000 Junge worked as a pastor in parishes in Santiago de Chile and from 1996 to 2000 he was President of the IELCH.

Since 2000, Junge has been an area officer for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Department for Mission and Development of the Lutheran World Federation . Since 2008 he has also been completing a diploma course in “Association / NPO Management” at the Association Management Institute (VMI) at the University of Friborg in Switzerland .

The Council of the Lutheran World Federation elected Young LWF General Secretary at its October 2009 meeting in Chavannes-de-Bogis, near Geneva, to succeed the Zimbabwean theologian Ishmael Noko . The handover took place on November 1, 2010. At its meeting in June 2016 in Wittenberg , the LWF Council unanimously extended the mandate for a second seven-year term. In May 2020, Junge announced that he would be stepping down on October 31, 2021, three years before the regular end of his term of office.

On October 20, 2017, Junge was awarded the Augsburger Friedensfest 2017 ( Augsburg Peace Prize ) in Augsburg . The laudator César García , Secretary General of the Mennonite World Conference , praised the boy as someone who “does not keep a distance, but calls for reconciliation”. His tireless work for reconciliation between the denominations and for the pursuit of justice and peace deserves this recognition, said García.

Martin Junge has been married since 1987 and has two sons.

literature

• Lutheran Service , Volume 46, 2010, Issue 4.

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Junge in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Martin Junge  in the German Digital Library
• Lutheran World - Information on the Change in the Office of General Secretary 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Protestant press service : Lutherans re-elect young people as general secretary ( memento of the original from June 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 20, 2016. 
2. ↑ Lutheran World Federation press release: LWF General Secretary Announces Resignation in 2021 , May 20, 2020, accessed on May 22, 2020.
3. ↑ sz: Martin Junge receives the Augsburger Friedensfest 2017 award. In: daz-augsburg.de. August 8, 2017, accessed October 25, 2017.
   Augsburg Peace Prize awarded to LWF General Secretary. ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: de.lutheranworld.org, accessed October 25, 2017.