Ehrhart Neubert
| Ehrhart Neubert (pseudonym: Christian Joachim) |
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2 August 1940 Herschdorf, Germany |
| Occupation | Theologian Lutheran minister Dissident (East Germany) Writer (History & Sociology) |
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Ehrhart Neubert (born 2 August 1940) is a retired German Evangelical minister and Theologian.
During its final decade he emerged as an opponent of the East German one-party dictatorship, becoming a member of the . Since the collapse of the East German political regime in 1989/90 he has participated prominently on committees and as an author seeking to understand and evaluate it.
Neubert was born into the family of a Protestant minister in 1940 in Herschdorf, a hillside village near Erfurt in central southern Germany. He grew up in nearby . Between 1958 and 1963 he studied Theology at Jena. After 1964 he worked at initially as a vicar and later as the minister in charge for the parish. From 1973 he was combining his parish duties with work as a at nearby Weimar. In 1976, probably on the advice of Robert Havemann, he joined the CDU, in western Germany a political party of the moderate right, but in the politically and by this time physically separated eastern German state, one of the so-called "block parties" controlled by the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany ("Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands" / SED) party through an organisation known as the National Front ("Nationale Front der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik" / NF). In 1984 Neubert resigned from the CDU. In 1984 he became community sociology secretary in the Theology Studies department with the Berlin-based .
From 1967 Ehrhart Neubert was also taking part in various informal discussion groups, focusing on theology, sociology and the interface between them. He was sympathetic to the civil right demands of Robert Havemann, who was seen by the regime as a high-profile political dissident. By 1979 Neubert was participating actively in Peace Groups of the and, during then 1980s, in other peace circles. He found himself increasingly in conflict both with the state authorities and with the inherently collaborationist leaderships of the official evangelical churches which were keen to retain a level of recognition and toleration from the party leadership. Neubert also produced a number of quasi-political sociological and theological studies: some of his work appeared in West Germany under the pseudonym "Christian Joachim".
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