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Verdienstorden H.Linnenbrink

Bavarian Order of Merits for Helmut Linnenbrink

Mr. Linnenbrink, member of the Executive Committee of Ordo socialis, has been awarded on

7th July 2009 the Bavarian Order of Merits by the Bavarian Prime Minister as

acknowledgement of his merits for the Free State of Bavaria. Thus have honoured his

prominent engagement for many years, as President of the Munich Diocesan Group of BKU

(Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs) of which he nowadays is honorary President, as well

as his activity, for many years, within the presidentship of the commercial Association BAG

e.V. (since 1995 member of the presidency, since 1999 vice-president and from 2003 til 2006

president).

The general meeting on 4th Oct. 2008 at Cologne was very positively responded. Especially the speech by Dr. J. Thesing, vice president of ORDO SOCIALIS and former deputy general secretary of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation on “China after the olympic games – problems and perspectives” was favourably appreciated.

Verdienstkreuz für Dr. Thesing

Great Cross of Merits for Dr. h. c. Josef Thesing

In the name of the President of the German Federal Republic the Prime Minister of North-

Rhine-Westphalia, Dr. Rüttgers, has awarded on September 11, 2008 the Great Cross of

Merits of the Order of Merits of the Federal Republic of Germany to Dr. Josef Thesing,

member of the Board of our association.

Uniapac

Meeting of UNIAPAC at Cologne

A short presentation of the new concept of ORDO SOCIALIS has taken place during the international board meeting of UNIAPAC on 1st June, 2007, Cologne, Germany.

Zitat Erzbischof Marx

Reinhard Marx

“If Catholic Social Teaching shall contribute efficiently to the shaping of the global order, it must find worldwide spreading. I therefore support the work of Ordo socialis.”

Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Munich

Quotations

Lothar Roos:

”The state is “not allowed to make its own competences which restrict the human being in his freedom and responsibility. What the individual citizen or the smaller community respectively can achieve themselves, shall not be taken over by the state.” – With these words the Berlin Episcopal Conference remembers the “subsidiarity principle” which since the encyclica Quadragesimo Anno (No. 79) is known as the most important socio-political principle of the clerical social proclamation and simultaneously of the democratic constitutional state. “

Lothar Roos: Die Grundwerte der Demokratie und die Verantwortung des Christen, 1991, S. 8 der digitalen Version: https://www.ordosocialis.de/publikationen. (The whole text is not yet translatet in English)