Wolfgang Huber

Huber is the oldest of five sisters and grew up in Falkau in the Black Forest and later in Freiburg im Breisgau.

His was consequently considered as potential neutral candidate to replace the then President of Germany Horst Köhler after his resignation in 2010.

Perspektiven einer menschlichen Welt (1977, with Heinz Eduard Tödt), Kirche (1979), Folgen christlicher Freiheit.

Studien zur Ethik der Verantwortung (1990), Friedensethik (1990, with Hans-Richard Reuter), Die tägliche Gewalt.

[10] Huber aims to reconcile individuality and sociality, by developing an understanding of freedom that transcends mere self-realisation.

[11] Following the sociologist Max Weber, the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the philosopher Hans Jonas, Huber develops an ethics of responsibility for life in the context of modernity.

[18] As bishop and chairperson of the EKD's Council Huber initiated and supported numerous reform programs.

In the context of the challenges mainline Protestantism face, especially in the eastern parts of Germany, Huber advocated for a missionary reorientation of the church.

These impulses characterize the large-scale reform process, subsumed under the theme "Church of freedom", which Huber headed.

[19] The document Kirche der Freiheit describes how the church can set its profile in society, whilst respecting societal plurality.

As chairperson of the EKD Huber campaigned for an open and regular dialogue between Christian and Muslim religious leaders.

[25] Especially his warning not to engage in "interreligious cheating" (a formulation which he articulated for the first time in 2001) gave rise to a number of public discussions.

[26] A prominent German Muslim organisation reacted to the document published by the EKD by saying that it reinforces and legitimates existing prejudices against Islam.