Peter Dienel

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Peter C. Dienel

Peter Christian Dienel (born October 28, 1923 in Berlin ; † December 13, 2006 ibid) was a German theologian and professor of sociology at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , where he was also head of the "Research Center Citizen Participation & Planning Process" after his retirement was active.

He was the first to conceive the “ planning cell ” public participation process . In 2003, Federal President Johannes Rau honored him with the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class, for his achievements in this area .

Life

Peter C. Dienel came from a Baptist family of doctors. In the early post-war period he took on the homeless young people from the “ Zone ” intensively in Berlin . This created the free church diaconal facility "Steglitz Boys' Home", which worked until it was closed in 2005. Dienel first studied Protestant theology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. After graduating from the faculty in 1951, he completed an additional one-year theological course in Boston / Massachusetts (USA). After that, Dienel worked for a few years to develop the student work of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches . In 1957 he married Dorothea Mallau, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. Dienel's son Hans-Liudger Dienel (* 1961) is a historian at the TU Berlin.

Dienel completed his studies in sociology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster in 1962 with a dissertation on the subject of The Voluntary Church , presented on the basis of the results of an empirical-sociological study of five Evangelical Free Churches with Professors Helmut Schelsky and Heinz-Dietrich Wendland .

From 1961 to 1968 Dienel was director of studies at the Evangelical Academy in Loccum . In later years he belonged to the presidium of the German Evangelical Church Congress , but was also for many years honorary in the leadership of Evangelical Free Churches, e. B. in Mettmann , active.

From 1968 to 1970 he worked together with the scientists Gerhard Curdes and Frido Wagener in the planning staff of the State Chancellery of the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Heinz Kühn . In 1969 he accepted a call from the University of Wuppertal and qualified as a professor of sociology there .

Dienel was buried in the Steglitz cemetery in Berlin-Steglitz .

Peter Dienel Research Center

The Dienel estate has been in the possession of the Central Oncken Archive of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches since November 2008 . On November 9, 2011, an Institute for Diaconal Studies and Social Theology (IDuS) was officially opened within the Baptist Theological Seminary in Elstal (FH) . The facility, which is headed by Professor Ralf Dziewas, also has a "Peter Dienel Research Center" attached.

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During his teaching and research activities at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , he developed the public participation process “ planning cell (abbreviated PZ)”, which does not allow more access to those who seek participation because they have personal interests. Rather, the 4-day juries of a PZ consist of remunerated “laypeople” who were invited at random via the residents' registration office. This new type of participation module "PZ" has been tried out in field studies and has since been used with success in numerous conflict cases. Dienel received a number of domestic and international awards for this innovation.

Planning cells have been used hundreds of times in the past 30 years. This work is also recognized by the fact that it was requested and financed by public bodies (municipality, state, federal government) in every single case. Dienel's scientific achievement has also had a major influence on the development of similar participation projects - for example on the so-called “citizen juries” in Great Britain and the USA . Planning cells have now also taken place in Spain, England, Holland, Australia and Austria with concrete and politically helpful results. It is now planned to be used in Japan, France, Russia and Poland.

Fonts (selection)

Dienel's grave, Bergstrasse 38, in Berlin-Steglitz
  • Social pluralism as a planning problem, in: Stadt - Region - Land, series of publications by the Institute for Urban Planning. Rhein.-Westf. TH Aachen, issue 8, 1969.
  • Techniques of civic participation in planning processes, in: Participation, Aspects of Political Culture . Opladen 1970.
  • Participation in planning processes as a task of administration, in: The administration. Journal of Public Administration . 4th volume, Berlin 1971, issue 2.
  • The planning cell. An alternative to establishment democracy. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1978.
  • Citizens plan Hagen-Haspe. The test runs of the planning cell in Hagen-Haspe . Publication series state and urban development research of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Vol. 2020. Dortmund 1978.
  • Participation of affected citizens in the decisions of the administration, in: on the subject 1/81, Citizens and Bureaucracy . A series of publications by the Minister of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Düsseldorf 1981.
  • In the beginning there was Schwelm. For the implementation of a process of civil participation in planning, in: Wuppertaler Geographische Studien, Heft 2, Universität GH Wuppertal 1981.
  • On the functionality of technological and environmental conflicts for a modernization of democracy, in: H. Zilleßen / P. Dienel / W. Strubelt (Eds.): Modernization of Democracy - International Approaches . Opladen 1993.
  • The citizens' opinion and its side effects, in: PH Feindt et al. (Ed.): Conflict regulation in the open civil society . Dettelsbach 1996.
  • Participation models for resolving conflicts, in: R. Kompa / M. v. Pidoll / B. Schreiber (Eds.): Surface recycling, Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1997.
  • Planning and political management of budget consolidation. An instrument introduces itself in: Lean State . Forum future. Congress Center, Düsseldorf, June 1998.
  • Democracy finally needs the citizen, in: HH von Arnim: Democracy before new challenges; Vol. 130 Series of publications by the University of Speyer. Berlin 1999.
  • Keyword “Citizens' Assessment ”, in: Bröchler / Simonis / Sundermann (eds.): Handbook Technology Assessment, Berlin 1999.
  • Keyword "The planning cell", in: Bröchler u. a. ibid.
  • The planning cell - an insult to the expert ?, in: Communication and participation in traffic problems - acceleration or obstruction? Series of publications of the German Transport Science Society DVWG, series B 233, Sept. 2000.
  • The desire for meaning as a trigger for the modernization of the state, in: Hermann Hill (Ed.): Modernization - Process or Development Strategy? Festschrift for Helmut Klages on his 70th birthday, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2001, as well as the same wording, in: Futures in Interaction, May / June 2002 issue.
  • The coming continuation of the offer of citizenship role, in: P. Dienel (Ed.): The liberation of politics, VS Verlag f. Social Sciences, Wiesbaden 2005.

literature

Web links

Commons : Peter Dienel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Planungszelle.de / Antoine Vergne: In memoriam Peter Dienel. 1923-2006 (May 20, 2008) ; accessed on May 9, 2016
  2. ↑ Dienel estate now in the Oncken archive, in: The community. Believe. Together. Shape. No. 2/2009 v. January 11, 2009, p. 22.
  3. ^ Theological seminar Elstal (FH): Ceremonial opening of the Institute for Diaconal Studies and Social Theology ; ( Memento of November 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on November 10, 2011.
  4. ↑ Citizen Participation Network: Archive Peter Dienel; ( Memento of March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on November 20, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Dienel, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dienel, Peter Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and emeritus professor of sociology
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 2006
Place of death Berlin