Andrea Strübind

Andrea Strübind in 2011

Andrea Strübind (* 20th January 1963 in Hamburg as Andrea Hitzeman ) is a Baptist theologian and professor of church history .

Life

Andrea Strübind, née Hitzemann, comes from a Baptist pastor family. Her father, Günter Hitzemann , was President of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches in the 1980s . She studied Protestant theology , history and Jewish studies in Berlin and Jerusalem before she received her doctorate in 1990 and initially worked as a pastor in the initial ministry in the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches in Germany . After working as a free church advisor in the World Council of Churches in Berlin and a habilitation grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, she and her husband worked as a pastor at the Evangelical Free Church Community (Baptists) in Munich from 1996 to 2006.

After her habilitation in 1999, she initially worked as a private lecturer in historical theology at Heidelberg University. In 2004 a professorship in Heidelberg and a visiting professorship in Lüneburg followed ; finally, in April 2006, she was appointed to the chair for church history at the University of Oldenburg . Since January 2008 she has been the Dean of Studies in Faculty IV there. She is co-editor of the journal Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte .

Her work focuses on topics such as the Reformation history, the Reformation , contemporary ecclesiastical history and revival movements of the 19th century .

Strübind was married to the theologian Kim Strübind .

Publications (selection)

• Edited with Martin Rothkegel : Baptism. History and present. Göttingen 2012 (mainly deals with the denominational positioning of Baptism, especially when it emerged in England, the USA and Germany).
• Between heaven and earth (ed. With Kim Strübind). Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Evangelical Free Church Community in Munich, Munich 2002
• Education - Ascent - Freedom (Ed.). Ceremony for the farewell of Prof. Dr. Friedrich Wißmann, Oldenburg 2008
• The unfree free church. The Union of Baptist Congregations in the 'Third Reich' . (Historical-Theological Studies on the 19th and 20th Centuries, Vol. 1), Neukirchen-Vluyn 1991, 343 pp. (2nd combined edition: Wuppertal / Kassel / Zurich 1995) (also dissertation; 3rd edition in Preparation)
• More eager than Zwingli. The early Anabaptist movement in Switzerland . Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-10653-9 (also habilitation thesis at Heidelberg University , 2001).
• Faith - Freedom - Dictatorship in Europe and the USA. Festschrift for Gerhard Besier for his 60th birthday . (Ed. With Katarzyna Stoklosa), Göttingen 2007
• Education - advancement - freedom. Ceremony for the farewell of Prof. Dr. Friedrich Wißmann (Ed.), Oldenburg 2008
• Diakonia of the free churches in the Nazi state . In: Diakonie Jahrbuch 1993, ed. by K.-H. Neukamm, Stuttgart 1993, 106-124
• Article church struggle . In: Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation (ELThG), Vol. 2, 1993, 1104–1111
• The free church demand for "separation of state and church" in view of dictatorial systems . In: Free Church Research 8 (1998), 86-106
• Dictatorship and history. Considerations on the progress of the historical processing in the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches in Germany . In: Journal for Theology and Congregation (ZThG) 4 (1999), 252-258
• Separation of state and church? Proof and failure of a free church principle . In: Journal for Theology and Congregation (ZThG) 4 (1999), 261–288
• Service to the people. The Diakoniewerk Tabea and the Third Reich . In: Journal for Theology and Congregation (ZThG) 5 (2000), 66–98 (also published in: Diakoniewerk Tabea eV (Hrsg.), 100 years of Tabea: "Dien ist Leben", Hamburg 1999, 92–121)
• Article: Jewish communities in the GDR. In: Michael Behnen (Ed.): Lexicon of German History 1945–1990. Events, institutions, people in divided Germany. Kröner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-520-83401-4 , 328-329.
• Article Baptists . In: H. Uhl (Ed.): Taschenlexikon Ökumene . Verlag Otto Lembeck, Frankfurt / M. 2003, 33-35
• Religious peace without religious freedom. The history of the impact of the Peace of Westphalia with regard to religious minorities . In: Lena Lybæk (Ed.): Community of Churches and Social Responsibility: The Dignity of Others and the Right to Think Different . Festschrift for Professor Dr. Erich Geldbach. Ecumenical Studies, Münster 2004, 504–526

Web links

• Literature by and about Andrea Strübind in the catalog of the German National Library
• Andrea Strübind on the website of the University of Oldenburg