Ernst Gutting
Ernst Gutting ( born January 30, 1919 in Ludwigshafen, † September 27, 2013 in Kaiserslautern) was Auxiliary Bishop of Speyer.
Life
Gutting came from a Catholic family; his father Richard was a Christian trade union secretary. After use as a soldier in World War II and return from captivity, he entered the seminary and studied in Eichstätt and Tübingen, among others, Romano Guardini. On 3 July 1949 he was ordained a priest in the cathedral of Speyer. At first he was a chaplain in Pirmasens, Landau and Kaiserslautern, 1956 youth and women pastors. Bishop Isidore Markus Emanuel deposed him in 1959 in the office of diocesan woman pastor. He was from 1968 Praeses the Catholic community of women in Germany ( kfd ) and from 1969 head of the Episcopal Head Office for Pastoral woman in Dusseldorf.
Pope Paul VI. Gutting appointed on 31 May 1971 for the Titular Bishop of Sufar and auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Speyer. The bishop He was ordained on September 12, 1971 by the Speyer bishop Friedrich Wetter. Were co-consecrators weather predecessors in the Speyer bishop's throne, Isidor Markus Emanuel, as well as the Bishop of Mainz, Hermann Volk. In 1974 he was also dean in Speyer. As Episcopal Vicar for the pastoral care he grappled with the reforms of the second Vatican Council.
February 25, 1994, Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation age-related.
Work
In the German Bishops' Conference Gutting was for many years Director of the Unit for the woman counseling. He was significantly involved in the policy paper questions the status of women in church and society of the German bishops. Until 2003 he was engaged in the International Association for the parish housekeepers, moreover, in the Young Christian Workers (CAJ ) and the Catholic Workers Movement ( KAB ).
His book offensive against the patriarchy, which appeared in 1987 and was repeatedly reissued became known.
He is the namesake of the Ernst- Gutting House in Offenbach an der Queich. In 2004 he was awarded the honor " Golden Tree " by the Foundation for Ecology and Democracy.
Writings
- Only love counts, Johannes Verlag, 1981 ( 5th edition ), ISBN 3779405598
- Sin and death - the answer, which have not yet been, don bosco publisher in 1981, together with Klaus Haarlammert
- Offensive against the patriarchy. For a more humane world, Herder Verlag, 1993 ( 6th edition ), ISBN 3451209314
- For a more humane world: Essays - Speeches - Interviews, Pilgrim printing 1995 ( 2nd edition), ISBN 3876370493
- Therese of Lisieux. A word of God for the world of today, John Publisher village people 1998 ( 4th edition ), ISBN 3-7794 -1306- X