Peter Godzik

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Peter Klaus Godzik (born June 16, 1946 in Flensburg ) is a German Protestant - Lutheran theologian who has worked as a pastor , senior church councilor , provost and regional church representative. He has emerged as the author and editor of numerous books, particularly on the subject of hospice work and bereavement care. He is considered one of the pioneers of the hospice movement in the area of ​​the Evangelical Church in Germany .

Live and act

His ancestors on his father's side (Godzik) come from Nikolai / Upper Silesia , his ancestors on his mother's side ( knights ) from Tangeln / Altmark . Peter Godzik grew up in Flensburg- Mürwik near the naval school (in the neighborhood of Dörthe Krause , Karl H. Peter , Werner Lindenau and Heinrich Ruhfus ). As a high school student he worked as a Sunday school helper in the church Mürwik at the pastor and later provost and Bishop Karl Ludwig carbon balance .

After graduation in the spring of 1966 at the Old Grammar School , he made two years military service in the Air Force of the Armed Forces in the sites Pinneberg , leak and Neubiberg . From 1968 to 1972 he studied Protestant theology at the universities in Kiel and Hamburg and was temporarily neighbor of Hans Rempel in the Luther congregation in Kiel and research assistant to the Old Testament scholar Werner H. Schmidt . Further academic teachers were: Werner Vollborn in the Hebrew language , Horst Robert Balz and Jürgen Becker in the New Testament , Hans-Joachim Birkner in the systematic theology , Peter Meinhold in the history of the church , Joachim Scharfenberg and Peter Cornehl in the practical theology . The vicariate took him to Bogotá / Colombia for one year and back to Kiel for two more years (following the new Preetz model). He was ordained on October 26, 1975 in the Nikolaikirche in Kiel by Bishop Friedrich Huebner as pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schleswig-Holstein .

From 1975 to 1987 he was parish pastor in Büdelsdorf (during this time also temporarily member of the North Elbian Synod and the General Synod of the VELKD ), from 1987 to 1993 Senior Church Councilor in the Lutheran Church Office of the VELKD in Hanover (during this time editor of numerous "texts from the VELKD") ), from 1993 to 1997 pastor at Schleswig Cathedral , from 1998 to 2007 provost of Ev.-Luth. Church district of the Duchy of Lauenburg with its seat in Ratzeburg (during this time chairman of the Lauenburg-Ratzeburg Biblical Society and the North Elbian Biblical Society , member of the administrative board of the German Bible Society and the board of trustees of the Luther Academy Ratzeburg as well as chairman of the support association for the Ernst Barlach Museum "Old Father House" ), from 2008 to 2011 representative of the North Elbian Ev.-Luth. Church for the accompaniment of the dying (in cooperation with the Diakonisches Werk Schleswig-Holstein) based in Rendsburg . He has been retired since July 1, 2011 and lives in Sterley . He is particularly interested in historical topics. He is a member of the working group The Confessing Church in Schleswig-Holstein and was elected 1st chairman of the Ratzeburg district group of the Heimatbund and Geschichtsverein Herzogtum Lauenburg eV association on March 17, 2017 . He is a member of the Karl May Society and regards reading and writing about Karl May as his hobby.

Hospice work

As a speaker in the Lutheran Church Office of the VELKD in Hanover , Godzik prepared the Lutheran General Synod in 1988 on the subject of “accompanying the dying” in Veitshöchheim near Würzburg . In the follow-up to this synod, the first ecclesiastical declaration on hospice work in the area of ​​the Evangelical Church in Germany was created under his leadership, which was followed by further declarations and basic texts.

Together with a project group in the VELKD community college in Celle, he developed the “Celler model for the preparation of volunteers in terminal care”, the first edition of which was published in 1993, and in the following years both the VELKD community college and the Maltese hospice work at the federal level was used in courses for multipliers. The revised curriculum of the Celler model has been responsible for learning to accompany the dying since December 2017 by the Federal Academy for Church and Diakonia in Berlin .

Godzik was temporarily a member of the advisory board for the hospice association in the Diocese of Hildesheim and on the federal board of the federal working group hospice (now: German Hospice and Palliative Association ). After his return to Schleswig he founded the “Outpatient Hospice Service Schleswig” and its support association. The statutes for the "Hospice Association Schleswig-Holstein" were developed by Godzik, and he was also involved in the preparation of several "Nordic Hospice and Palliative Days" at the Sankelmark Academy . He is a member of the advisory board of the “Children on Butterfly Wings” association in Pansdorf near Lübeck. In 2009 he successfully took part in the extra occupational training course “ Palliative Care for Psychosocial Occupational Groups” at the Palliative Care Academy Hamburg in the DFA. Godzik was a member of the German Society for Palliative Medicine (Section "Pastoral Care") and an individual member of both the German Hospice and Palliative Association and the Hospice and Palliative Association Schleswig-Holstein.

Grief counseling

As the North Elbe representative for accompanying the dying, he added a similarly structured course to the “Celler Model for Preparing Volunteers in Dying Care” to prepare volunteers in grief counseling , the one in the Diakonische Werke Schleswig-Holstein in Rendsburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Schwerin and was taught at the Federal Academy for Church and Diakonia in Berlin .

Pastoral care

He has also presented several elaborations on a biblically based pastoral care theory:

  • Pastoral care in the Old and New Testament , Bible study 1996 (online at pkgodzik.de) (PDF; 131 kB).
  • Pastoral care in following Jesus. A meditation on Luke 24: 13-35 . First presented as part of a pastoral care course for vicars on September 6, 1983 in Schleswig, inspired by a text by Joachim Scharfenberg : Pastoral care as a conflict aid ( online at pkgodzik.de ); introduced as a structural draft for the basic course in the work on the project “accompanying the dying - pastoral care of the community” in the years 1988–1993 in the community college of the VELKD in Celle; published in: Andreas Ebert / Peter Godzik (ed.): Don't leave me when I get weak. Instruction manual for the project “Accompany the dying - Pastoral care of the community” , Hamburg: EB-Verlag 2003, pp. 15–17; now in: Peter Godzik (Ed.): The Art of Dying Care. Handbook to accompany the seriously ill and dying , Rosengarten b. Hamburg: Steinmann 2013, pp. 16-18.
  • The word of release. A meditation for confession . First published in: Do not leave me when I get weak. Instruction manual for the project "Accompanying the dying - Pastoral care of the community" , published on behalf of the VELKD by Andreas Ebert and Peter Godzik; second edition, reviewed and supplemented by Peter Godzik and Wolfgang Weiß, EB-Verlag Hamburg 1996, pp. 79–88 ( online at pkgodzik.de ); now in: Peter Godzik (Ed.): Dying care - warm and affectionate. Steinmann, Rosengarten b. Hamburg 2012, pp. 16–26.
  • The healing of the paralyzed. A meditation on Markus 2,1-12 (together with Wolfgang Weiß). First published in: Don't leave me when I get weak ... , EB-Verlag Hamburg 1996, pp. 76–78 ( online at pkgodzik.de ); now in: Peter Godzik (Ed.): Dying care - warm and affectionate. Steinmann, Rosengarten b. Hamburg 2012, pp. 39–41.
  • Pastoral care at Luther , 1996 (online at pkgodzik.de) (PDF; 66 kB)
  • Modern pastoral care concepts , compiled by Peter Godzik, 1996 (revised 2011) (online at pkgodzik.de) (PDF file; 174 kB).

Awards

Publications

As an author and editor

  • From the accompaniment of the dying. Papers and resolutions of the general synod of the VELKD in Veitshöchheim 1988. Ed. Together with Jürgen Jeziorowski. Lutherisches Verlagshaus, Hanover 1989, ISBN 3-7859-0582-3 .
  • Let me die at home! Edited together with Petra Muschaweck. Gerd Mohn, Gütersloh 1989, ISBN 3-579-02162-1 .
  • Don't leave me when I get weak Handbook for accompanying the seriously ill and dying within the framework of the project “Accompanying the dying - pastoral care of the community”. Edited together with Andreas Ebert . EB-Verlag Rissen, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-923002-66-1 .
  • Don't leave me when I get weak Instruction manual for the project “Accompanying the dying - pastoral care of the community”. Edited together with Andreas Ebert. EB-Verlag Rissen, Hamburg 1993, 2nd edition 1996 (edited together with Wolfgang Weiß)
  • Images of hope against death. Together with Reinhard Brandt and Ulrich Kühn . Lutherisches Verlagshaus, Hannover 1994, ISBN 3-7859-0680-3 .
  • You're not alone. Encouragement in days of sickness. Gütersloher, Gütersloh 1995, ISBN 3-579-01343-2 / Kiefel 1998, ISBN 3-579-06153-4 .
  • Find your own life in pictures, texts and symbols. Edited together with Marion Loh. EB-Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-936912-48-3 .
  • What does the caterpillar know about the butterfly? Departure for change, freedom and immortal life. EB-Verlag, Schenefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-936912-72-2 .
  • Lavender scent and summer wind. Spiritual edification from the Lauenburger Land. Selected articles from the series “Wort zum Sonntag” in the Lübecker Nachrichten - Lauenburger Nachrichten. Steinmann, Rosengarten b. Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-927043-33-6 .
  • Shine like heaven's shine. Signs of life from the Lauenburg region. Selected sermons. Steinmann, Rosengarten b. Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-927043-34-3 .
  • Hospice committed. Experience and impulses from three decades. Steinmann, Rosengarten b. Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-927043-44-2 .
  • Meet your own grief. A life and learning book. Steinmann, Rosengarten b. Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-927043-45-9 .
  • Be close to those who mourn. A way of learning and living. Steinmann, Rosengarten b. Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-927043-46-6 .
  • Be close in difficult times. Handout for preparing volunteers in grief counseling. Management manual. Steinmann, Rosengarten b. Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-927043-49-7 .
  • End-of-life care - warm and friendly. With numerous practical aids. Steinmann, Rosengarten b. Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-927043-50-3 .
  • The art of terminal care. Handbook for accompanying the seriously ill and dying. Steinmann, Rosengarten b. Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-927043-48-0 .
  • The courage book. Impetus for the qualification of voluntary hospice workers . Practice supplement to the magazine Praxis Palliative Care , issue 20, 2013, Verlag Brinkmann-Meyhöfer.
  • The way into the light. A reader on the last questions in life. Steinmann, Rosengarten b. Hamburg 2015; Neuenkirchen near Soltau: 2nd, improved and supplemented new edition 2020, ISBN 978-3-927043-63-3 .
  • Of words, stars and other treasures. A spiritual yearbook. Steinmann, Rosengarten b. Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-927043-66-4 .
  • Adult belief. Insights into life , Rosengarten b. Hamburg: Steinmann 2018, ISBN 978-3-927043-70-1 .

As an employee

  • Karl Ludwig Kohlwage, Manfred Kamper, Jens-Hinrich Pörksen (eds.): “What is right before God”. Church struggle and theological foundation for the new beginning of the church in Schleswig-Holstein after 1945. Documentation of a conference in Breklum 2015 . Compiled and edited by Rudolf Hinz and Simeon Schildt in collaboration with Peter Godzik, Johannes Jürgensen and Kurt Triebel, Husum: Matthiesen Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-7868-5306-0 .
  • Karl Ludwig Kohlwage, Manfred Kamper, Jens-Hinrich Pörksen (eds.): “Do what he tells you!” The reconstruction of the Schleswig-Holstein regional church after the Second World War. Documentation of a conference in Breklum 2017 . Compiled and edited by Peter Godzik, Rudolf Hinz and Simeon Schildt, Husum: Matthiesen Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-7868-5307-7 .
  • Karl Ludwig Kohlwage, Manfred Kamper, Jens-Hinrich Pörksen (eds.): “You will be my witnesses!” Voices for the preservation of a denominational church in urgent times. The Breklumer Hefte of the ev.-luth. Confessional community in Schleswig-Holstein from 1935 to 1941. Sources on the history of the church struggle in Schleswig-Holstein . Compiled and edited by Peter Godzik, Husum: Matthiesen Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-7868-5308-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the history of hospice work in Germany see: Oliver Seitz and Dieter Seitz: The modern hospice movement in Germany on the way to public awareness. Origins, controversial discussions, perspectives. With an accompanying word by Wolfgang U. Eckart. With a foreword by Paul Becker and Provost Peter Godzik. Centaurus, Herbolzheim 2002, ISBN 3-8255-0367-4 , p. 161 ff .; Michaela Fink: From initiative to institution. The hospice movement between lively encounters and standardized services. der hospiz verlag, Ludwigsburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-941251-52-6 , pp. 87 and 175 f .; Andreas Heller, Sabine Pleschberger, Michaela Fink, Reimer Gronemeyer : The history of the hospice movement in Germany. der hospiz verlag, Ludwigsburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-941251-53-3 , pp. 81, 86 f., 106 a. ö.
  2. ↑ Gothart Magaard: The "Preetzer Model". Sketch of its development. In: Gothart Magaard / Gerhard Ulrich (Hrsg.): 100 years of Preetz seminary. A commemorative publication. Luth. Verlagsgesellschaft, Kiel 1996, pp. 63–84; Brief description The Preetzer model ; TV report on NDR : “Where, please, is the way to the pulpit?” Vicar training in 1976
  3. ^ Texts from the VELKD by Peter Godzik. pkgodzik.de. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  4. ↑ History and Politics. pkgodzik.de. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  5. ↑ http://www.geschichte-bk-sh.de/index.php?id=4
  6. ↑ http://www.pkgodzik.de/index.php?id=359
  7. ↑ Lutheran Church Office (ed.), "Hospice Movement". A work report for the general synod of the VELKD (texts from Velkd 39/1990), Hanover: Lutherisches Kirchenamt 7th edition 1996 (online at pkgodzik.de) (PDF; 130 kB)
  8. ↑ Celler Declaration 1991 (online at pkgodzik.de) and Tübingen Declaration 1992 (online at pkgodzik.de)
  9. ^ Peter Godzik, The Hospice Movement in the Federal Republic of Germany. A documentation (texts from velkd 47/1992), Hanover: Lutherisches Kirchenamt 3rd edition 1992 (online at pkgodzik.de) (PDF; 296 kB)
  10. ↑ On the history of hospice work in Schleswig-Holstein (online at pkgodzik.de) ( MS Word ; 154 kB)
  11. ↑ Programs of the Nordic Hospice and Palliative Days (online at pkgodzik.de) (PDF; 1.8 MB)
  12. ↑ Palliative Care Academy in the DFA. Website of the Diakonie Hamburg. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
predecessor Office successor
Hermann Augustin Provost of the church district Hzgt. Lauenburg of the North Elbian Ev.-Luth. Church
1998 - 2007 		Frauke Eiben
( as provost of the Lauenburg provost in the
Lübeck-Lauenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany )
personal data
SURNAME Godzik, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Godzik, Peter Klaus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Evangelical Lutheran theologian, author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg