Stefan Vesper

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Stefan Vesper (2015)

Stefan Vesper (born February 15, 1956 in Düsseldorf ) was Secretary General of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) from 1999 to 2019 .

Career

After graduating from high school at the Staatliche Görres-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf and doing community service in a youth home run by the Catholic Students Youth (KSJ) , he studied history and Catholic theology in Cologne and Bonn . In 1978, while he was a student, he wrote the Canon Every part of this earth is sacred to my people , according to Chief Seattle . After the legal clerkship and the second state examination he was from 1987 to 1995 and again from 1998 to 1999 (part-time) pedagogical assistant at the Catholic Social Institute (KSI) of the Archdiocese of Cologne in Bad Honnef.

In 1992 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the subject of "Challenges and opportunities in Catholic-social adult education using the example of the conciliar process for justice, peace and the preservation of creation" in the subject of religious education / adult education at the University of Osnabrück / Vechta. phil. In the winter semester of 1994/95 he took on a teaching position at the seminar for Catholic theology at the University of Cologne in the field of religious education / adult education on the subject of "teaching and learning environmental ethics".

In 1996 and 1997 Stefan Vesper worked at the secretariat of the Council of the European Bishops' Conferences in St. Gallen. a. as assembly secretary for the Second European Ecumenical Assembly in Graz on the subject of "Reconciliation - God's gift and source of new life" (June 23-29, 1997). Parallel to his work at the Catholic Social Institute in Bad Honnef, he was head of the International Office for Adult Education (IAE) in Brussels, which was set up by the European Federation for Catholic Adult Education (FEECA) and the Catholic Federal Working Group for Adult Education (KBE) .

From September 1st, 1999 he was General Secretary of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK). On September 14, 2018 it was announced that Vesper, whose term of office would end in 2023, would retire on September 1, 2019. It was adopted on November 22, 2019 at the General Assembly of the Central Committee. His successor has been Marc Frings since January 1, 2020 .

family

Stefan Vesper is married, has two grown daughters and lives in Bad Honnef . His brother Michael Vesper is a former politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), former state minister in North Rhine-Westphalia and held the office of general director of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) from 2006 to 2017 .

Publications

  • Challenges and opportunities of Catholic social adult education using the example of the conciliar process for justice, peace and the integrity of creation , St. Ottilien (EOS-Verlag) 1993
  • Michael Vesper wrote the canon "Every part of this earth" for the Protestant hymn book for a speech attributed to Chief Seattle. The canon is published in the regional parts of Rhineland-Westphalia-Lippe (No. 672), Hesse (No. 635) and Bavaria-Thuringia (No. 655)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZdK General Secretary Stefan Vesper stops early. In: kathisch.de. September 14, 2018, accessed September 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ domradio.de: 37-year-old follows Stefan Vesper. 22nd November 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Vespers, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, General Secretary of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK)
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf