Matthias Dannenmann

Matthias Dannenmann (born January 9, 1943 in Berlin ) is a Protestant theologian and executive pastor in Bad Waldsee .

Life

Matthias Dannenmann is the son of the theologian Arnold Dannenmann . He attended the Hohenstaufen High School in Göppingen from 1954 to 1959 , was an exchange student in the USA at the Willowbrook High School, Elmhurst, Ill. In 1959/1960, and lived there in York Center in a family committed to the Church of the Brethren. After graduating from the CJD Jugenddorf-Christophorusschule Oberurff in 1962, he studied Protestant theology and sociology at the Universities of Göttingen, Erlangen and Heidelberg. During his studies and vicariate he was the editor in charge of the Christian magazine for young people "Die Glocke". 1966/1967 he was research assistant at Rolf Rendtorff. He began his vicariate in 1967 in Leimen near Heidelberg, the district synod elected him in the same year as district youth pastor of Heidelberg-Land. He continued his vicariate at the Markus Church in Berlin-Steglitz and was then appointed to the Prison Pastor of the Moabit Prison in Berlin. In 1989 he was ordained at Johannes-Stift / Berlin.

On behalf of the Christian Youth Village Association of Germany (CJD), he and his wife Inge went to the North Yarmouth Academy, Maine, USA as lecturers for a year - also with the task of an international student and teacher exchange between schools in the New England states and to build up the youth village Christophorus schools. From 1975 to 1984 he was Secretary General of the YMCA Association in Germany and represented the German YMCA in the committees of the European YMCA and the YMCA World Federation, Geneva. During this time, he was particularly keen to work closely with the Protestant Jungmannwerke in what was then the GDR. From 1973 to 1985 he was the deputy chairman of the Working Group of Protestant Youth (AEJ) and he was an appointed member of the 6th Synod of the EKD and speaker of the Synod Working Group of the Synod.

In 1984 the CJD appointed him as a curator in its management, where he was responsible for the youth village Christophorus Schools, for religious education work, cooperation with business and the international tasks of the CJD. In 1995 the Protestant regional church in Württemberg appointed him as a managing pastor in Bad Waldsee.

In 2008 he did his doctorate at the Theological Faculty of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald with Michael Herbst on the subject of "Accompanying the elderly through education, community development and pastoral care - a growing mission for Christian communities in an aging society".

In 2012 the district synod of the Protestant church district of Ditzingen elected him as its delegate for the "Lages, Evangelical Seniors in Württemberg".

Matthias Dannenmann is married and has two daughters. He lives in Leonberg-Höfingen

Publications

• "Conversion". Aussaat-Verlag, Wuppertal 1977, ISBN 3-7615-0240-0 ,
• Against resignation. In: Departure for Life. Kassel 1980.
• A Christian concept of upbringing in a pluralistic world. In: Employer. of the BdA, Cologne 1990.
• We are present - help in old age. In: visAvie, magazine of the Zieglerschen Anstalten. Wilhelmsdorf 2001.
• Accompanying older people through education, church building and pastoral care: a growing task for Christian communities in an aging society . Weißensee-Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-89998-157-5 ,
• Moments in life: discover and develop new joie de vivre . Weißensee-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89998-993-9 ,
• Believe that something new is possible - selected interviews from the sixties - commented on by today's experts from business, politics, theology, culture, sport and others . Südwestbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-942661-63-8 ,
• How do we reach people of the 55+ generation? In: Community. ed. from the Old Pietist Community Association (die apis), Stuttgart 2009.
• Hold on to what holds on? Repentance has a future. Manuela Kinzel Verlag , Göppingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-95544-042-8 .
• "Who doesn't long for freedom? Verrai Verlag, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-946834-49-6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief CV