Werner Licharz
Werner Licharz (born April 28, 1938 in Düsseldorf ; † November 27, 2015 in Seeheim-Jugenheim ) was a German theologian and educator . His concern was the Christian-Jewish dialogue , the contribution of Jews to German culture and understanding with Poland .
Life
Werner Licharz was born in 1938 as the son of Franz Licharz and Hedwig née Gröll. From 1958 to 1962 he studied music, theology, philosophy and education at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. He served his teaching vicariate in 1963 in Worms-Ibersheim with teacher Rudolf Kießig, the parish vicariate in 1964 in the Friedrichskirche (Worms) with Pastor Dr. Werner Sorge and 1965–1969 in Kelkheim and Kriftel.
After a second degree from 1970 at the TH Darmstadt , Faculty of Education and Psychology, he received his doctorate in 1976. phil. at Hans-Jochen Gamm with the title: “The education policy of the German Education Council . An ideological-critical study of the educational and educational policy objectives in the recommendations of the Education Commission, taking into account the educational policy development in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1945 to the present ”, 512 pp.
Anyone who wants to provide pastoral support to people in questions of life and faith must get to know the various fields of activity of church pastoral care . Licharz also examined the following institutions more closely: Gossner Mission , Mainz – Kastel with Pastor Horst Symanowski , the pre-Reformation Protestant Church of the Waldensians in the Waldensian valleys in Piedmont and the Taizé Community ( Communauté de Taizé ) with Prior Frère Roger .
Licharz was pastor in Darmstadt (Paul Gerhardt parish), Kelkheim-Hornau (Stephanus parish) and Kriftel (resurrection parish) from 1972–1973 . He worked as a lecturer at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences, today RheinMain University . Since 1973 he was pastor of the Evangelical Student Community Bonn (ESG), afterwards Deputy Academy Director of the Evangelical Academy Arnoldshain (EAA), Schmitten . In addition, Licharz was at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , then school pastor at the Liebigschule - Europaschule (grammar school) Frankfurt-Praunheim. On the board of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Main-Taunus-Kreis e. V. he contributed his knowledge and experience.
He was honorary professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , in the department of Protestant theology , for the department of practical theology and religious studies , there with a focus on Judaism . At the University of the Third Age (U3L) he also gave lectures and was a popular lecturer at various institutions.
Around 50 years after Martin Buber , he has thus dealt with the same topics in the same place. Inevitably, personal contacts arose with Rafael Buber (1900–1990), the son of the Jewish scholar, who was married to Margarete Buber-Neumann from 1922–1929 .
Publications
- Arnoldshainer texts (22 publications)
- to Janusz Korczak
- on Leo Baeck , with a 6-volume work edition
- to Martin Buber
- to Judaism and Christianity
literature
- Walter Weisbecker: Frankfurt faces: Werner Licharz . With a drawing by Erich Dittmann. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 21, 1995.
- Ulrich Lilienthal, Lothar Stiehm (ed.): Living facing people - Festschrift for Werner Licharz . Secolo, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-929979-42-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Werner Licharz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Licharz, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian, educator and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 2015 |
| Place of death | Seeheim-Jugenheim |