Werner Krusche

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Werner Krusche (1981)

Werner Krusche (born November 28, 1917 in Lauter / Sa. , † July 24, 2009 in Magdeburg ) was a German Protestant theologian and bishop .

biography

Werner Krusche was born in Lauter in 1917 as the second son of a preacher of the regional church community . His mother died just one year after his birth, which is why he spent his childhood in different places, mainly with his aunts, where he attended elementary school with his brother Theodor. After finishing high school in Striegau , Krusche was initially a soldier in World War II , where he was seriously wounded in the Soviet Union in 1942 . In 1943 he was able to start studying theology at the University of Leipzig . At the end of the war, Krusche was taken prisoner by the British and was only able to study after his releaseBethel , Heidelberg , Göttingen and Basel continue.

In 1949 he passed his first exam and was then Edmund Schlink's research assistant at the University of Heidelberg until 1954 . In 1953 he received his doctorate at the theological faculty of Heidelberg University.

In 1954 Krusche went from the west to the GDR and initially to Dresden as a pastor . From 1958 to 1966 he was director of studies at the Saxon seminary in Lückendorf near Zittau . From 1966 to 1968 he was a lecturer in systematic theology at the Theological Seminary in Leipzig. In 1968 he was elected Bishop of the Evangelical Church in the ecclesiastical province of Saxony as the successor to Johannes Jänicke . He held this office, which he combined with that of First Cathedral Preacher at Magdeburg Cathedral , until his retirement in 1983.

From 1976 to 1979, Krusche was council chairman of the Evangelical Church of the Union for the GDR area. From 1981 to 1983 he was chairman of the GDR Church Federation and from 1981 to 1982 chairman of the Conference of Church Governments .

Werner Krusche in conversation with Richard von Weizsäcker at the celebratory event on the occasion of his 90th birthday

Krusche died in Magdeburg in 2009 at the age of 91.

Focus of his work

With his courageous commitment to the concerns of the churches in the society of the GDR Krusche was atheistic dominated DDR -Führung often an eyesore. Even after his departure, Krusche continued to be church and politically active. He was one of the initiators of the peace prayers and the demonstrations that mobilized almost a million people in East Germany before reunification under the slogan “We are the people” (later “We are one people”).

The reconciliation of the Germans with the peoples of the former Soviet Union was another focus of his work.

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Werner Krusche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Krusche: I will never be able to play the violin again. Memories. Stuttgart: Radius-Verlag, 2007
  2. ↑ Ehrhart Neubert:  Krusche, Werner . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  3. ↑ Hagen Findeis, Detlef Pollack (Ed.): Self-preservation or self-loss. Bishops and representatives of the Protestant churches in the GDR talk about their lives . Berlin: Left, 1999; ISBN 3-86153-202-6 ; P. 23
  4. ^ Matthias Judt (ed.): GDR history in documents. Resolutions, reports, internal materials and everyday testimonies . Berlin: Left, 1998; ISBN 3-86153-142-9 ; P. 614
  5. ↑ http://www.ekmd.de/portal/aktuellpresse/1-pressemitteilungen/pmEKKPS/11-paEKKPS200702/1975.html
personal data
SURNAME Krusche, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Louder / Sa.
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 2009
Place of death Magdeburg