Peter Schicketanz

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dr. Peter Schicketanz listens carefully
Peter Schicketanz, 2010

Peter Schicketanz (born April 25, 1931 in Görlitz ; † January 17, 2018 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg ) was a German Protestant theologian , pastor, lecturer and senior consistorial councilor of the Evangelical Church in the ecclesiastical province of Saxony . He was also known as a companion of those who refused to serve in the GDR .

Live and act

Peter Schicketanz grew up in Friedland in Bohemia and in 1945 moved with his family to his hometown Görlitz. After graduating from high school, he began an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering in 1949, but had to break it off after three weeks because he became seriously ill with spinal polio. Since then he has only been able to walk with crutches and in old age has been dependent on a wheelchair. In 1951 he began to study theology , which he completed in 1956 at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg with the first exam . In 1956/57 he studied in Basel on a scholarship from the Ecumenical Council . There he heard u. a. the lecture on the doctrine of reconciliation by Karl Barth . This was followed by his vicariate at the Evangelical Reformed Cathedral Church in Halle for three years . There he was also the inspector of the Reformed Konviktes . After the second exam, he did his doctorate in 1961 at the Church University in Berlin-Zehlendorf on Carl Hildebrand von Canstein's relationships with Philipp Jacob Spener .

From 1960, Schicketanz was the village pastor in Nordgermersleben in the Magdeburg Börde , before he was appointed personal advisor to the bishop of the church province of Saxony, Johannes Jänicke , in 1965 . As secretary he was involved in the preparation of the handout for pastoral care for conscripts "From the Peace Service of the Church". He also visited construction soldiers in barracks outside the church province, for example in Löbau and Holzdorf, and was an important companion of those who refused to serve.

Schicketanz was responsible for the training of theologians from 1968 to 1979, first as consistorial councilor, then as senior consistorial councilor in Magdeburg. The main focus of his work was on the one hand supporting students who knew they belonged to their home church, the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony (now part of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany), and of vicars. On the other hand, the organization of the preparatory service after graduation and the reform of the 2nd theological examination according to the 'fields of action' of church practice. At the same time he took part in the comprehensive efforts of the Federation of Protestant Churches in the GDR to reform church education.

Between 1970 and 1975 he was a member of the “Church and Society” committee of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR . From 1966 he took part in the first gatherings of former construction soldiers in the Berlin Mission House, which continued as an annual central meeting in Leipzig from 1969 onwards, and gave a lecture there in 1976 on the subject of “The Power of Powerlessness”. From 1970 he became involved in the working group on peace issues at the Jungmännerwerk in East Berlin, which reissued the handout for pastoral care for conscripts after a revision. The Ministry of State Security noted in 1973 after an operational identity check: “The Sch. is considered the main initiator in questions of military service, alternative military service and conscientious objection in the ecclesiastical province of Saxony. ”Even after reunification , Schicketanz was involved in the church's peace work.

As part of the reform of church education, he was also involved in the design of the new training for community educators. From 1979 to 1986 he was the founding rector of the Evangelical Training Center for Congregational Education in Potsdam , where he was a lecturer in church studies and ethics until he reached retirement age in 1996. Ordained community educators were particularly important to him. There, too, he advised his students, the majority of the weapon or military service totally denied.

From 1963 until a few years before his death, Schicketanz was a member of the Historical Commission for the Study of Pietism . The main task of this commission was the publication of the writings of the fathers of Pietism. In continuation of the research on his dissertation, Schicketanz edited the correspondence between Canstein and August Hermann Francke in 1972 . As a retired man, he wrote a textbook on pietism and published letters and sermons by Spener as well as writings by Spener supporter Christoph Matthäus Seidel . Since 1967 he wanted to publish Zinzendorf's Berlin speeches. From 2000 he was able to devote himself to this project again within the framework of the working group for the edition of Zinzendorf's selected works and to complete this work shortly before his death.

In 1958 Schicketanz married the master dressmaker Gisela Zimmer. The couple had four sons. Three of them were called up as conscientious objectors to the construction soldiers, the fourth refused to serve as reservists. After the death of his first wife, he married senior teacher Ingeborg Dirksen-Küfner and moved to Garbsen . After her death in 2016, he last lived near a son in Lutherstadt Wittenberg.

Publications

  • From the Church's Peace Service. Handout for pastoral care for conscripts (as co-author), 1965.
  • Carl Hildebrand von Canstein's relations with Philipp Jacob Spener (also dissertation from February 23, 1961, Kirchliche Hochschule Berlin), Berlin 1961; Luther-Verlag, Witten 1967.
  • Pietism as a question to the present . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1967 and Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1967, ISBN 978-3-7668-0180-7 .
  • Pietism from 1675 to 1800 (= church history in individual representations, vol. III / 1 modern times). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 978-3-374-01858-1 .
  • Carl Hildebrand Freiherr von Canstein Life and Thought in Source Representations (= Hallesche Forschungen, Volume 8), Harrassowitz, Verlag der Francke Foundations in Max-Niemeyer-Verlag, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 978-3-447-06378-4 .
  • with Bernd Eisenfeld : Building soldiers in the GDR: The "bringing together hostile-negative forces" in the NVA (= research on GDR society. With a foreword by Joachim Gauck ), Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153 -637-6 .
as editor
  • The correspondence between Carl Hildebrand von Canstein and August Hermann Francke (series: Texts on the History of Pietism III / 1, Vol. 1), De Gruyter, Berlin 1972, ISBN 978-3-11-001886-8 , ( digitized version )
  • Philipp Jacob Spener: Last theological concerns and other written answers 1711. Along with a preface by Carl Hildebrand von Canstein. Part 1 and 2. Introduced by Dietrich Blaufuß and Peter Schicketanz Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-487-07970-4 .
  • Christoph Matthäus Seidel (1688–1723): Pietistic community development in Schönberg / Altmark 1700–1708 , Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 978-3-374-02320-2 .
Essays
  • The way to the training of Protestant community educators in the German Democratic Republic . In: Dieter Aschenbrenner , Karl Foitzik (Hrsg.): Plea for theological-pedagogical staff in the church. Training and practice in the churches of the Federal Republic and the GDR . Chr. Kaiser, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-459-01334-6 , pp. 147-224.
  • The beginnings of the Bible Societies in Halle and Leipzig . In: The beginning of a story, Evangelical Main Bible Society, Berlin 1989 pp. 66–77, ISBN 3-7461-0074-7 .
  • Community education training in Potsdam Reports - Problems - Prospects . In: Eckart Schwerin: Community pedagogy learning pathways of the church in a socialist society, Comenius Institute, Münster 1991 pp. 183-221, ISBN 3-924804-46-X .
  • The establishment of building units within the National People's Army of the GDR . In: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, 10th year, issue 1/1997. Pp. 189-205.
  • In the Evangelical Consistory of the Church Province of Saxony (January 1965 to March 1979) In: Contemporary witness reports from the Magdeburg Consistory (1944–2004). Magdeburg 2012 pp. 91-102 ISBN 978-3-00-035867-8 .
  • Christian catering for the poor [...] (1697) In: Philipp Jakob Spener: Berliner Sermons 1693–1701 , Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2015, pp. 69–82 ISBN 978-3-487-14994-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Community letter for Bebertal, Emden and Nordgermersleben, June – August 2017 edition
  2. ^ Peter Schicketanz: Pastoral care for conscripts. On the creation of the handout “On the Peace Service of the Church” from 1965 . In: Horch und Guck, issue 2/2004, p. 19f.
  3. ^ Bibliography on the State Security Service of the GDR , p. 256.
  4. ↑ Peter Schicketanz: In the Evangelical Consistory of the Church Province of Saxony (January 1965 to March 1979). In: Contemporary witness reports from the Magdeburg consistory (1944–2004). Magdeburg 2012, pp. 91-102, p. 256.
  5. ↑ a b c Gerold Hildebrand: Peter Schickedanz: An important companion of the conscientious objectors . In: Bausoldaten in der DDR , Issue 46/2004, pp. 21–22.
  6. ↑ Theologian Peter Schicketanz: Conscientious objectors in the GDR supported , Idea , obituary of January 26, 2018.
  7. ↑ Obituary to Dr. Peter Schicketanz , thla-thueringen.de, article from January 24, 2018.
  8. ↑ Evangelical training center for community education Potsdam (Ed.): Fantasy for the future . 500th edition. Berlin 1996, p. 59 .
  9. ↑ Information on membership in the Historical Commission for Research into Pietism , eva-leipzig.de, accessed on February 6, 2018.
  10. ^ Dietrich Meyer: In memory of Peter Schicketanz . In: Association for history and contemporary issues of the Brethren (ed.): Unitas Fratrum . tape 76 . Herrnhuter Verlag, Herrnhut 2018, ISBN 978-3-931956-54-7 , pp. 449-450 .
  11. ^ Obituary notice Ingeborg Dirksen-Küfner , notice dated July 23, 2016.
  12. ↑ The text of the handout for pastoral care for conscripts from the Peace Service of the Church of November 1, 1965 comprises 25 pages. In: BStU ZA MfS HA XX / 4 2777 pp. 55-80. Pastoral care for conscripts
personal data
SURNAME Schicketanz, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and senior consistorial councilor
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 2018
Place of death Lutherstadt Wittenberg