Rolf Sauerzapf

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Rolf Sauerzapf (born May 2, 1937 in Stuttgart ) is a German Protestant pastor and publicist , retired military chaplain and first border guard pastor . Sauerzapf is the father of four children and lives in Kassel .

Life

Rolf Sauerzapf was active in the Jungmännerwerk / YMCA at a young age . After studying theology and history in Tübingen , Berlin and Geneva , he was vicar and pastor in Württemberg from 1965 to 1972 , most recently (1968 to 1972) at the Kreuzkirche in Stuttgart. Since 1969 he has been an honorary member of the Wingolf Association Argentina to Strasbourg . From 1972 to 1978 he was the first border guard pastor to be exclusively responsible for the Bonn area and was thus also responsible for pastoral care of the GSG 9 . In 1979 he took over the Dean's office in Kassel . In 1975 he received his doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Pretoria with a thesis that critically examined the anti- apartheid policy of the World Council of Churches . The Knight of the Order of St. John was appointed to the Church Council by the Württemberg Church in 1984 . In 2001 he retired. Today he stays with the St. Michaelis Congregation of the SELK in his place of residence Kassel and takes over preaching services there from time to time.

Since the fall of the Wall in Eastern Europe, Sauerzapf has been committed to travel and donations for the Evangelical Lutheran churches in Romania , Poland , Russia and the former Soviet republics . From 2004 to 2014 he was first chairman, then deputy chairman of the Märtyrerkirche relief campaign based in Uhldingen ( Lake Constance district ), which today turns to increasingly oppressed Christians in Islamic countries, as well as deputy chairman of the board of directors of the Association for German Cultural Relations Abroad , formerly a. a. "Association for Germans Abroad".

He is also a member of the right-wing extremist “ Aid Committee Southern Africa ” (HSA) and the “ Paneuropean Union ”. In the Coburg register of associations, Sauerzapf is registered as chairman of the HSA from 2003 to 2011.

Sauerzapf is considered a representative of theological conservatism and has connections to numerous conservative to right-wing conservative organizations. He is a member of the “ Community Aid Association ” in Walsrode , a nationwide association that supports Christians and communities who are challenged by “church speeches and actions that are not in accordance with Scripture”. He is also active as a journalist. He is the author of numerous publications in newspapers and magazines, among others. a. in Diakrisis as well as idea documentation , and published an article each in Conservative Today (5/73), Paneuropa-Germany (3/78), Staatsbriefe (11/91) and Junge Freiheit (1/94) as well as on February 28, 2014 (10/14) on the 80th birthday of Klaus Motschmann .

He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Conservative Education and Research Foundation (FKBF), which, together with Junge Freiheit , awards the Gerhard Löwenthal Prize and the Baltasar Gracián Culture Prize and has built up the Conservatism Library in Berlin, runs and regularly organizes events there Organized conferences. Sauerzapf is also President (formerly 1st Chairman) of the Preußeninstitut eV-Zollernkreis Association . On Sunday, September 15, 2013, he held the ecumenical service at the annual conference of the Weikersheim Study Center . Then the then President of the Preußeninstitut e. V. / Zollernkreis Harald Seubert , who was also President of the “Study Center” from 2011 to 2016, on the 100th birthday of the founder Hans Filbinger (1913–2007).

Among other things, he was a speaker at the right-wing conservative fraternity Jenensia zu Jena .

Honors

In 1987 Sauerzapf was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon as “guarantor and engine of convincing Federal Border Guard pastoral care” .

Fonts (selection)

  • as Ed .: Upright between the fronts. Thank you for Karl Eduard Berron on his 75th birthday . Bernhausen (Württ.) 1972.
  • The secularization of Geneva ecumenism . Diss. 1975
  • with Alexander Evertz : The Church and its Conservatives . Saxony near Ansbach 1975.
  • The ethnic minorities as a European and German challenge . Filderstadt 1976.
  • Where the German language is most threatened in Europe . Filderstadt-Bernhausen 1986.
  • as publisher: Professional ethics today: guidelines for d. Federal Border Guard (BGS) . Moers 1987, ISBN 3-87067-312-5
  • Priesthood of All Believers - Ministry: How Does It Work? Nürtingen 1990.
  • as ed. with Jürgen W. Schmidt : A life for Prussia. Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stribrny . Ludwigsfelde 2010.

literature

  • Joachim Heubach / Klaus-Dieter Stephan (eds.): Professional ethics - faith - pastoral care. Evangelical pastoral care in the Federal Border Guard, Federal Police. Festschrift for Rolf Sauerzapf , Leipzig 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Complete directory of Wingolf, Lichtenberg 1991
  2. ^ SELK St. Michaelis parish Kassel: Our church services. In: www.selk-kassel.de. Retrieved January 11, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Active for persecuted Christians in action: Lutherans and Prussians: Church Councilor Rolf Sauerzapf is 80 , ead.de, article from April 24, 2017.
  4. ↑ Parliamentary State Secretary Koschyk confirmed in office as Federal Chairman of the Association for German Cultural Relations Abroad ; ( Memento from November 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Baltic Rundschau, January 12, 2011
  5. ↑ Lucius Teidelbaum: Brown zone Bundeswehr? West German right-wing extremism and the Bundeswehr . IMI study, No. 2008/04 of 18 March 2008, p. 12
  6. ^ District Court of Coburg, VR 353
  7. ↑ ikbg.net (PDF)
  8. ↑ medrum.de
  9. ↑ First meeting in the new rooms ; ( Memento of January 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Foundation for Conservative Education and Research, May 25, 2013
  10. ^ Foundation for Conservative Education and Research: Library of Conservatism: Library of Conservatism opened ; Retrieved May 25, 2013
  11. ↑ osteuropakanal.uni-freiburg.de
  12. ↑ preusseninstitut.de
  13. ↑ m.schwarzwaelder-bote.de
  14. ↑ Annual conference program ( Memento from March 20, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Sauerzapf, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant military pastor and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart