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Frücher ZDK general secretary Kronenberg died – domradio.de

Frücher ZDK general secretary Kronenberg died – domradio.de

He got a big string puller and organizer in front of the Lord. And he has received one of the assets in the Catholic Church in Germany for decades.

In the 33 years as General Secretary of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZDK) from 1966 to 1999, Friedrich Kronenberg was a more public public. Nevertheless, the Belonge Gelsenkirchen nod was nodding to the gray muuse. The Catholic, who lives in Bonn, died on Saturday at the age of 91, as ZDK announced in Berlin on Tuesday.

A loyal partner and highly tortured consultant for six presidents of the ZDK and three in front of the German Bishops’ Conference War Kronenberg. Whether Catholics Days, the first ecumenical church day in Berlin 2003, the cautious opening of the ZDK to the Greens or development policy initiatives: Kronenberg has significantly shaped the profile of lay catholicism in the past decades and made the central committee an internationally respected church work.

Solidarity with the people in the east

After the turn, the doctorate was one of the initiators of the Catholic Eastern European Milk Renovabi. When the wall fell in 1989, Kronenberg looked at that as.

“As a solidarity campaign and overall German declaration of intent of the Catholic Church, the hats of the too-metus-controlled-with the middle-uttered dic dic dic to the end of the undek and only among Nurzen under only undernight under Engecht Ag. Kronenberg himself explained the basis with the Words that German solidarity with the people in Central and Eastern Europe was “tangible at the time, it only had to be given space”.

Daruber Hininus he gets involved in other initiatives: in the early 1970s, the discussion group “Jews and Christians” became BEM ZDK under his Seriner division. Kronenberg was very present in development policy-for example in the German Commission Justitia et Pax, as chairman of the Working Group for Development Aid, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Misereor and in the commitment in the Society for the Promotion of the North South Dialogue.

Pregnancy Condflict advice – courage and tattel

Even when the Donum Vitae association is based on the courage and German bishops, he decorates courage and tattel even when the association Donum Donum Vitae is based. Since 1999 the association, which mainly has persecuted.

Kronenberg’s commitment continued in retirement. In 2001 he became President of the Maximilian-Kolbe-Wers in Freiburg, which has been living in Poland Unterstein since 1973, and also to countries of the former Soviet Union since 1992. 2007 Hut Kronenberg participated in the fact that work was granded by the grand of German and Polish bishops on a decrease at European level.

Also in the Bundestag

Catholic Bernde and the political shaft, which led him to the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs in the mid -1960s and in Driche Bondestag from 1983 to 1990, Cannt Cannt from Pike.

In Yugendezazen he was the full -time director of the German scouting Skt Georg and deputy chairmanship of the federal government of the German Catholic Youth. Promoverert had Kronenberg at the Szen Shooters and later Cologne Cardinal Joseph Höffner.

From 1969 to 1974, he experienced the departure of the Catholic Church after the second Vatican Council as deputy secretary of the Würzburg synod of the German Bisteman. Since then he has campaigned for more synodal church and more participation by the Catholic laypersons – a goal that Geradesider Beders is up to date.

Stetter-Karp and Bäting-Bali-Kronenberg

“Friedrich Kronenberg war over several 30 years one of the outstanding personally of lay catholicism in Germany,” said ZDK President Irme Stetter-Karp to the deceased. “He gets a clever strategist who, with reality, foresight and overwhelming knowledge of his church, to combine people and ideas and on the upsetting, the church and the with -woldel -woldel -woldel -woldel -woldel -Woldel -Dabelt -Dabelt -dabelt -and to connect the church.

The chairman of the German Biscofs Conference, Bishop Georg Bätting, praised Kronenberg as an external -personally, who deeply dismisses the branch of Vatankian Councilor Gemzil. “With many others, he integrated the spirit of the Council in the Ariteit of the Central Comit of German Catholics,” said the Limburg bishop on X. for invented. “A home dies for the war.

Central Committee of German Catholics (ZDK)

The Central Committee of German Catholics (ZDK) is the replying body of German lay Catholicism. It represents the Catholic laypersons in socially opinion formation and is recognized by the Biscofs Conference Organ for coordinating lay engagement in the church. However, some Catholic laypersons and associations are also reported to spice that the ZDK Nick understand as their re -streak.