Siegfried Wedge

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Siegfried Keil (born April 24, 1934 in Kiel ; † February 14, 2018 in Marburg ) was a German Protestant theologian and social ethicist .

Life

Keil initially studied Protestant theology in Kiel and Tübingen from 1954 to 1959 and completed his doctorate in Kiel in 1959. He then studied sociology from 1959 to 1961 , also in Kiel. He also received his doctorate in this subject in the year he graduated. He then worked as a parish pastor in Preetz before he returned to science from 1965 to 1968 at the Department of Protestant Theology at the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1969 he finally completed his habilitation.

From 1968 he worked as the director of the Evangelical Headquarters for Family and Life Counseling in the Rhineland in Düsseldorf. From 1973 he was a full professor for social education at the Pädagogische Hochschule Ruhr , which merged with the University of Dortmund in 1980 . In 1985 he accepted an appointment at the Philipps University of Marburg, where he held the professorship for social ethics until his retirement on October 1, 2002.

In 2004 Siegfried Keil was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Act

Due to his most important socio-ethical topics "Sexuality and Family", Keil was repeatedly elected to church and state commissions and advisory boards and helped shape their memoranda and reports. On the part of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), the spectrum ranges from the “Memorandum on Questions of Sexual Ethics” (1971) to the statement “What families need” (2002). From 1973 to 2003 Keil was President of the Evangelical Action Group for Family Issues ; thereafter he was their honorary president. From 1971 to 2011 Keil was a member and from 1989 to 1992 chairman of the scientific advisory board at the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs . The reports under his special responsibility were “Guidelines and Recommendations on Family Policy in United Germany” (1991) and “Family and Advice. Family-oriented counseling between diversity and integration ”(1993). In addition, Keil emerged as the author of several independent publications on his fields of work.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bereavement of Prof. Dr. Dr. Siegfried Wedge. Department of Protestant Theology at Philipps-Universität Marburg, February 15, 2018, accessed on February 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ H. Stieghorst: Prof. Dr. Dr. S. Keil - biography. Retrieved March 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c Siegfried Keil: Professor Dr. Dr. Siegfried Wedge. Biography. Department of Protestant Theology at the Philipps University of Marburg, accessed on April 19, 2013 .
  4. ↑ History on eaf-bund.de, accessed on April 19, 2013.
  5. ^ Opinion of the scientific advisory board at the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth , accessed on April 19, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Wedge, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, social ethicist and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2018
Place of death Marburg