Rolf-Dieter Günther

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Rolf-Dieter Günther (* May 20, 1933 ; † May 22, 2011 in Wilhelmshorst ) was a German Protestant pastor , press spokesman for the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR and an unofficial employee of the GDR state security .

Life

Günther studied Protestant theology after obtaining his university entrance qualification . Upon successful completion, he was in the Vicariate of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg taken and then to the priest ordained . Günther became a state youth pastor in Potsdam . He also worked in the synod of his regional church and in the federal synod . After the founding of the GDR Church Federation, he became its press spokesman. His official duties also led him to make numerous international contacts in the ecumenical cooperation of the churches.

Rolf-Dieter Günther worked for many years in the Christian Peace Conference , took part in the All-Christian Peace Assemblies in Prague and was elected to their working bodies. He was also a member of the GDR regional committee.

During the time of the turning point and peaceful revolution in the GDR in 1989 and the formation of the Central Round Table, he took over the secretarial work of this body together with the Catholic prelate Dieter Grande .

State Security staff

Günther was registered as an unofficial employee of the State Security and was operated by the MfS under the code name IM "Wilhelm". From 1968 to 1989 he reported on the deliberations of his church leadership, federal synods and trips abroad. Günther supplied personality profiles to the MfS district administration in Potsdam; so he described the church president Eberhard Natho as "reactionary, how it couldn't be worse".

Works

  • God above all things: Encounters with Martin Luther 1983 / ed. in the order d. Luther Committee d. Evang. Churches in d. DDR by Helmut Zeddies u. Rolf-Dieter Günther, Berlin: Evangelical Publishing House, 1984

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Day of the Lord
  2. ↑ a b Jan von Flocken: Stolpes Stasi witnesses in Focus .de . September 9, 1996.
  3. Jump up ↑ Hans Michael Kloth: From “folding paper” to free voting.
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Rolf-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1933
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 2011
Place of death Wilhelmshorst