Andreas von Maltzahn

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Andreas von Maltzahn (born August 5, 1961 in Hagenow ) is a German Protestant - Lutheran theologian and director of studies for the preachers and study seminar of the North Church in Ratzeburg. From 2007 he was Mecklenburg regional bishop and since the church merger from 2012 to 2019 bishop in the district of Mecklenburg and Pomerania of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

Life

Andreas von Maltzahn (No. 1709 of the gender census ) comes from the primeval noble family of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Maltzahn family . He was born as the eldest son of Pastor Albrecht-Joachim Rudolf Friedrich von Maltzahn (* 1934; # 1627) and his wife Dorothea, b. Laudia (* 1938).

Maltzahn put in Rostock a high school, and then studied theology in Rostock and Berlin . After a three-year research study at the University of Greifswald , followed by a vicariate and doctorate , he was pastor in Vipperow from 1992 and in Wismar from 1998 . From 2006 to 2007 he was provost in Wismar. Maltzahn is married.

Andreas von Maltzahn was elected regional bishop of Mecklenburg on March 30, 2007 by the regional synod and took up this office on August 1, 2007. Until 2012, he played a key role in the establishment of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . On May 11, 2019, he was retired from his office and switched to the preacher and study seminar of the North Church in Ratzeburg , where he had been called on May 1, as head of studies .

Fonts

  • True Nonviolence as a Religious Path: An Inquiry into MK Gandhi's Thought . Diss. Greifswald 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bishop in the district of Mecklenburg and Pomerania, Bishop Dr. Andreas von Maltzahn. Retrieved June 8, 2012 .
  2. The Maltza (h) n - the life path of an East German noble family. Ed .: Maltza (h) nscher Familienverein. Cologne 1979, p. 395.
  3. See the entry of Andreas von Maltzahn's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. Sebastian Dittmers: Origin of the Northern Church Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . Lutherische Verl.-Ges, Kiel 2015, ISBN 978-3-87503-181-2 , pp. 161-193 .
  5. [1] nordkirche.de, accessed on May 22, 2019.