Beate Hofmann

Beate Hofmann (born October 15, 1963 in Bad Tölz ) is the bishop of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck (EKKW)

Before that, she was professor for diaconal science and diaconal management at the Church University of Wuppertal / Bethel .

Origin and education

Beate Hofmann studied Protestant theology in Bethel , Heidelberg , Northwestern University in Evanston (Illinois) , Hamburg and Munich from 1983 to 1991 . This was followed by a vicariate at the Evangelium Church in Munich . On October 31, 1993 she was ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . Then she was pastor at the Reformation Memorial Church in Munich-Großhadern until 1996, then she was on leave for a year for the dissertation and from 1997/1998 worked as a research assistant with Michael Schibilsky at the Institute for Practical Theology of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where she received her PhD in 1999 . From 1998 to 2003 she was theological director of studies at Diakonie Neuendettelsau , and from 2003 to 2013 professor for community education at the Evangelical University of Nuremberg . 2012 habilitation them at Augustana College Neuendettelsau with an empirical study of the religious adult education and was in 2013 appointed Professor of Diakoniewissenschaft and Diakonie Management at the College of Theology Wuppertal / Bethel and was since 2017 director of the Institute for Diakonie Science and Diakonie Management (IDM). She is a member of numerous committees.

Bishop

On May 9, 2019, she was elected as the new bishop by the Synod of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck. Beate Hofmann is the first woman to head the Evangelical Church in Kurhessen-Waldeck. She succeeds Bishop Martin Hein , who is retiring for reasons of age . She was elected with 78 votes out of 86 votes in the second ballot. In the first ballot it had already received 56 votes and narrowly missed the required two-thirds majority of 58 votes. Her competitor, the Herborn provost Annegret Puttkammer , withdrew her candidacy.

The inauguration of Beate Hofmann - and with it the change in the bishopric - took place on September 29, 2019 in the Martinskirche in Kassel .

Fonts (selection)

• Good mothers - strong women: history and working methods of the Bavarian Mothers Service . Kohlhammer, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-17-016190-0 [also dissertation , 1999].
• Forming oneself in faith: the contribution of faith courses to the religious education and language skills of adults . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-374-03176-4 [Habilitation].
• Diaconal corporate culture. A handbook for managers (DIAKONIE series: Education - Design - Organization, Vol. 2). With the collaboration of Cornelia Coenen-Marx, Otto Haussecker, Dörte Rasch and Beate Baberske Krohs. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2008 (2nd edition 2010), ISBN 978-3-17-021502-3 .
• Together with Martin Büscher: Diaconal companies run multirationally: Basics - Controversies - Potentials . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2017, ISBN 978-3-8452-8662-4 .
• Together with Cornelia Coenen-Marx : symphony, drama, power play - on the interplay of full-time and voluntary work in the church . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-17-032216-5 .
• Together with Barbara Montag: Theology for Diakonie Companies. Functions - roles - positions. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-17-034588-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Beate Hofmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Beate Hofmann on the homepage of the Church University of Wuppertal / Bethel.
• NN: Beate Hofmann introduced into office as the new bishop of Kurhessen-Waldeck . epd report on the EKD homepage from September 30, 2019; accessed on October 13, 2019.
• Report on the inauguration on the EKKW homepage ; accessed on October 13, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hofmann, Beate. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. De Gruyter. Retrieved June 16, 2019.
2. ^ NN: Conference of the Regional Synod in Hofgeismar '- Regional Synod elects Prof. Dr. Beate Hofmann to the bishop . EKKW homepage; accessed on May 18, 2019.
3. ^ Epd : Beate Hofmann elected as Bishop of Kurhessen-Waldeck . EKD homepage from May 9, 2019; accessed on May 18, 2019; NN: Conference of the State Synod in Hofgeismar '- State Synod elects Prof. Dr. Beate Hofmann to the bishop . EKKW homepage; accessed on May 18, 2019.
4. ^ NN: Beate Hofmann introduced into office as the new bishop of Kurhessen-Waldeck . epd report on the EKD homepage from September 30, 2019; accessed on October 13, 2019.