Wolfgang Ockenfels

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Wolfgang Ockenfels OP (born January 25, 1947 in Honnef ) is a Roman Catholic religious , theologian and social ethicist .

Life

Wolfgang Ockenfels joined in 1967 the Congregation of the Dominicans at. From 1968 to 1974 he studied philosophy at the Dominican University in Walberberg with a degree with lectureship and Catholic theology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1973 Ockenfels was ordained a priest .

This was followed in 1974 by studying social ethics and economics at the University of Friborg in Friborg (Switzerland) . There he became a member of the Catholic German Student Union Teutonia in the CV . He was an assistant at the International Institute for Social Science and Politics at the University of Freiburg. At Arthur F. Utz he received his dissertation “Unions and State. The reform debate of the German Trade Union Federation " doctorate . From 1979 to 1982 he was editor of the Rheinischer Merkur . In 1979 he became an employee at the Institute for Social Sciences Walberberg eV in Bonn. Since 1992 he has been editor-in-chief of the social-ethical journal Die Neueordnung and since 2007 chairman of the Institute for Social Sciences Walberberg.

In 1982 Ockenfels became an academic councilor at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Augsburg . Here he completed his habilitation in 1984 in the field of Christian social doctrine with the text “Politicized Faith? On the tension between Catholic social teaching and political theology ” . From 1985 to 2015 Ockenfels was Professor of Christian Social Sciences with the subjects political ethics and theology, Catholic social teaching and social ethics, business ethics as well as family, media and society at the Trier Theological Faculty . From November 2003 Ockenfels was consultor at the Pontifical Council “Iustitia et Pax” in Rome.

Father Wolfgang Ockenfels is a member of the Dominican Holy Cross convent in Cologne (Lindenstrasse).

Act

Ockenfels is a member of the scientific commission of the Catholic Social Science Center in Mönchengladbach (KSZ) . Since 1998 he has also been President of the International Humanum Foundation in Lugano, Switzerland . He is a member of the Ludwig Erhard Foundation . Since 2000 he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Forum of German Catholics . Since 1985 he has been a spiritual advisor to the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs (BKU) .

He was once involved in the show Christ in the World , which is produced by the German-language edition of the American Catholic television station EWTN . There he answered questions from Margarete Ebele about the social responsibility of Christians today. The Rhinelander had several appearances on German television, including a. with Sabine Christiansen and Frank Plasberg .

Ockenfels repeatedly criticized the CDU party program, whose Christian orientation he questions. In his book The High C: Where is the CDU Steering? he dealt with the role of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and took the view that the party was no longer oriented towards the teaching of the church. He has clearly distanced himself from the CDU chairwoman Angela Merkel , to whom he assumes ignorance of the traditions that have shaped the party, and in particular of Catholic social teaching.

Wolfgang Ockenfels took a public position against the memorandum Church 2011: A necessary awakening , which he described as a "revolt of theological dwarfs who play themselves as luminaries ".

For Junge Freiheit , he often writes guest commentaries on current political and ecclesiastical events.

In the early summer of 2016, he criticized the change in political values: "Anyone who has faithfully belonged to the CDU for fifty years, which then represented values ​​similar to those of the AfD today , is suspected of being senile or sentimental if he does not slowly consider leaving." He also condemned the demarcation course of Catholic bishops and other church representatives from the Alternative for Germany party as “careless defamation” and “unwillingness to deal seriously with the AfD program, which is not rationally understandable”. At the beginning of 2017 he affirmed: "In my personal, non-authoritative opinion - after a thorough reading of the AfD program - it is not unchristian to belong to this party or to vote for it."

In March 2018, the AfD- affiliated Desiderius Erasmus Foundation announced that it had appointed Wolfgang Ockenfels to the foundation's board of trustees. The Dominican Order and the Central Committee of German Catholics distanced themselves from Ockenfels' activities in the party-affiliated foundation .

honors and awards

Fonts

  • with Heinrich Basilius Streithofen : Discussion about peace . Seewald, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-512-00295-1 .
  • Unions and the state. On the reform discussion of the German Federation of Trade Unions . Institute for Social Sciences, Walberberg 1979, ISBN 3-922183-00-X .
  • Politicized Faith? On the tension between Catholic social teaching and political theology . Institute for Social Sciences, Walberberg 1987, ISBN 3-922183-19-0 .
  • Little Catholic Social Teaching. An introduction . Paulinus-Verlag, Trier, 4th edition 1992, ISBN 3-7902-5002-3 .
  • Entrepreneurial Morale in the Social Market Economy . Paulinus-Verlag, Trier, 4th edition 1992, ISBN 3-7902-5130-5 .
  • with Bernd Kettern: Church tax dispute . Verlag der Bonifatius-Druckerei, Paderborn 1993, ISBN 3-87088-779-6 .
  • with Günter Triesch: Interest groups in Germany. Your influence in politics, economy and society . Olzog, Munich and Landsberg am Lech 1995, ISBN 3-7892-8720-2 .
  • Poor Germany. Glosses on the turning point and turning point . MM Verlag, Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-928272-05-5 .
  • Families between risks and opportunities . Schöningh, Paderborn 2001, ISBN 3-506-74600-6 .
  • Faith, morality and politics at Josemaría Escrivá in: César Ortiz (ed.), Josemaría Escrivá, profile of a founder figure. Cologne 2002. pp. 253-268.
  • Religion and violence . Bachem, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-7616-1572-8 .
  • The high C: Where is the CDU heading? Sankt Ulrich Verlag, Augsburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86744-111-7 .
  • What comes after capitalism? Sankt Ulrich Verlag, Augsburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86744-177-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint. In: The New Order. ISSN  0932-7665 , accessed July 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Ockenfels: The CDU's high C fades. In: Welt.de . November 11, 2007. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Susanne Becker-Huberti: Dominican Father Ockenfels criticizes Chancellor with sharp words: "Merkel does not know what the Catholic social teaching means!" In: Domradio . August 24, 2009, accessed on July 17, 2018 (interview).
  4. ^ Petra Lorleberg: This is where the grotesque revolt of theological dwarfs is documented. In: Kath.net . February 17, 2011, accessed on July 17, 2018 (interview with Wolfgang Ockenfels).
  5. ^ Wolfgang Ockenfels: Church refusal of dialogue. In: Kath.net . June 6, 2016, accessed July 17, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Rolf Seydewitz: “Churches are quite embarrassed”. In: Trierischer Volksfreund . January 12, 2017, accessed on July 17, 2018 (interview).
  7. ^ Desiderius Erasmus Foundation names first members of the Board of Trustees. Erasmus Foundation, March 20, 2018, accessed on July 17, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Because of AfD: Dominicans distance themselves from Ockenfels. Catholic.de of July 25, 2018, accessed on July 29, 2018
  9. ^ Forum of German Catholics, Prof. Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Ockenfels OP, awards. Forum of German Catholics, accessed on July 31, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Conference on natural law and / or pluralism: Awarding of the Joseph Höffner Prize to Wolfgang Ockenfels. Joseph-Höffner-Gesellschaft, February 3, 2016, accessed on July 17, 2018 .
  11. ↑ XII. Civitas Congress of the Civitas Institute in Bonn. CIVITAS-INSTITUT, May 11, 2019, accessed on July 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ockenfels, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ockenfels, Wolfgang OP
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious, theologian and social ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Honnef