Birgit Klostermeier

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Birgit Klostermeier (* 1960 in Herford ) is a German theologian and since February 2015 state superintendent (regional bishop) for the Osnabrück district of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover .

Life

Birgit Klostermeier grew up in Witten / Herdecke and Osnabrück . She studied Protestant theology and sociology in Göttingen and Heidelberg . Following her vicariate in Hanover , she was pastor in Wunstorf for eleven years . From 1995 she was head of studies at the pastoral college in Loccum and from 2002 to 2007 head of advanced training in the first years of office (FEA) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover based in Loccum. From March 2008 she was a research assistant at the Social Science Institute of the EKD and received her doctorate in 2010 on The Entrepreneurial Self of the Church at the University of Basel . In 2010, she was appointed superintendent in the church district of Berlin-Schöneberg. In June 2014 she was appointed state superintendent of the district of Osnabrück. On February 7, 2015, Klostermeier was introduced to her office in the Marienkirche in Osnabrück by regional bishop Ralf Meister .

Awards

  • 2012: Klaus von Bismarck Prize of the Social Protestantism Foundation

Fonts

  • The Church's Entrepreneurial Self: A Discourse Analysis , De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2011; also dissertation University of Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-025952-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.landeskirche-hannovers.de/evlka-de/presse-und-medien/nachrichten/2015/02/2015_02_04_3
  2. ↑ the church. Evangelical weekly newspaper, No. 1, January 4, 2015, p. 9
  3. ↑ http://www.landeskirche-hannovers.de/evlka-de/presse-und-medien/nachrichten/2015/02/2015_02_06_1
  4. ↑ Dr. Birgit Klostermeier receives the Klaus von Bismarck Prize 2012. In: WolfenbuettelHeute.de. Retrieved June 7, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Klostermeier, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford