Rainer Bendel

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Rainer Peter Bendel (* 1964 in Hawangen ) is a German Catholic theologian , church historian , university professor and non-fiction author .

Life

The mother came from the central Bohemian Forest , the father from northern Bohemia . From 1984 to 1991 he studied Catholic theology and history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU) and for a while Catholic theology and art history at the Pontifical Gregorian University and other Pontifical Academies in Rome.

He completed his theological studies at the LMU in 1991 with a licentiate and a licentiate thesis on the image of the church by Joseph Bernhart . The historical subjects he joined in 1994 at the LMU with the promotion from the doctor. The focus was on the history of East Central and Southeast Europe. The focus of the dissertation was the Catholic Enlightenment in Silesia.

In addition to his studies, he offered art-historical tours in Rome, Umbria and Tuscany and worked as a freelancer for the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation, with personalities and texts of intellectual interest.

After completing his doctorate, he worked as a research assistant at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen with Joachim Köhler at the Chair of Church History in the Middle Ages and Modern Times. There he in 2001 habilitated . With his habilitation thesis he dealt with the ecclesiastical integration of the expellees in the Federal Republic in the post-war period.

This was followed by further studies on the regional focus of the integration of expellees in Bavaria, in southwest Germany as well as on the history of the regions of origin of the expellees, on the history of Königstein as a center of pastoral care for expellees and emigrants and on Maximilian Kaller as expellees bishop from the Warmia . Rainer Bendel is a member of the historical commission for the preparation of the beatification of Maximilian Kaller.

As a board member of the Institute for East German Church and Cultural History, he conducted a large number of conferences on the church history of the regions of origin of the displaced persons. He is the editor of the archive for Silesian church history and three series of publications on the religious history of East Central and Southeast Europe. On April 15, 2014 he was appointed managing director of the Association of Catholic Expellees Organizations (AKVO) in Stuttgart. He has been teaching as an adjunct professor in Tübingen since 2016.

Fonts (selection)

  • The image of the church by Joseph Bernhart (= studies of theology and history , vol. 10). (also Licentiate thesis, Univ. Munich, 1991). EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 1993, ISBN 978-3-88096-910-0 .
  • The pastor in the service of popular education. Pastoral care in the diocese of Breslau under the sign of the Enlightenment (= research and sources on the church and cultural history of Eastern Germany , vol. 27). (also dissertation, Univ. Munich, 1994), Böhlau, Cologne 1996, ISBN 978-3-412-06195-1 .
  • Departure from faith? Catholic expellees in the social transformations of the post-war years 1945–1965 (= research and sources on the church and cultural history of East Germany , vol. 34). (Also habilitation thesis, Univ. Tübingen, 2001), Böhlau, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-412-16902-2 .
  • Expellees - Catholic Church - Society in Bavaria 1945 to 1975 . Iudicium, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89129-534-2 .
  • with Carsten Eichenberger (Red.), Hans Voller: How foreigners became home. Aspects of integration - from the life of well-known personalities . Haus der Heimat, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-031666-1 .
  • Catholic Theological Faculty of Wroclaw. In: Dominik Burkard, Wolfgang Weiß (Ed.): Catholic theology in National Socialism. Volume 1/2: Institutions and Structures. Würzburg 2011, pp. 9-23.
  • Königstein University and Seminary. A contribution to the pastoral care of displaced persons in the Catholic Church . Böhlau, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-21083-0 .
  • with Hans-Jürgen Karp : Bishop Maximilian Kaller (1880–1947) . Aschendorff, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-402-13260-9 .
as editor
  • Church of sinners - sinful church? Examples for dealing with guilt after 1945 (= contributions to theology, church and society in the 20th century , vol. 1). Lit, Münster 2002, ISBN 978-3-8258-5010-4 .
  • Stephan M. Janker: Displaced Catholics - Impulses for upheavals in Church and society? (= Contributions to Theology, Church and Society in the 20th Century , Vol. 5). Lit, Münster 2005, ISBN 978-3-8258-5959-6 .
  • Displaced persons find a home in the church. Integration processes in divided Germany after 1945 (= research and sources on the church and cultural history of East Germany , vol. 38). Böhlau, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20142-5 .
  • Churches as an integration factor for migrants in the southeast of the Habsburg Monarchy in the 18th century (= Church and Society in the Carpathian-Danube Region , Vol. 1). Lit, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10045-0 .
  • The second half of the home. Building bridges in the southwest and in Europe. A conversation with Monika Taubitz and Archbishop Robert Zollitsch . Aschendorff, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-402-12975-3 .
  • Church and group formation processes of German minorities in East Central and Southeast Europe 1918–1933 (= Church and Society in the Carpathian-Danube Region , Vol. 3). Lit, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-11806-6 .
  • with Norbert Spannenberger (Ed.): Catholic Enlightenment and Josephinism. Forms of reception in East Central and Southeastern Europe (= research and sources on the church and cultural history of East Germany , vol. 48). Böhlau, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22270-3 .
  • Joachim Köhler, Franz Machilek: Conscience and Reform. The Konstanz Council and Jan Hus in their current meaning (= displaced persons - integration - understanding , vol. 2). Lit, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-13079-2 .
  • with Josef Nolte (Ed.): Region - Religion - Identity. Silesian coins . Lit, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-13126-3 .

literature

  • Prof. Dr. Rainer Bendel, in: The Carpathian Post . 7, July 2014, p. 6.

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personal data
SURNAME Bendel, Rainer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rainer Peter Bendel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian, church historian, university professor and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hawangen