Detlef Klahr

Detlef Klahr (born September 13, 1957 in Bergen , Celle district ) has been state superintendent for the Ostfriesland-Ems district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover since August 2007 .

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Detlef Klahr did an apprenticeship at the Deutsche Bundespost after school and a commercial college . He then studied Protestant theology at the Theological Academy in Celle - Hermannsburg from 1978 to 1983 and was subsequently vicar in Wietzendorf .

From 1986 to 1990 Klahr was parish pastor in Uelzen . From 1990 to 1997 he worked as a research assistant in church history at the Augustana University in Neuendettelsau , where he received his doctorate in 1996 with a thesis on CJ Philipp Spitta and the revival movement in Lower Saxony .

In 1997 he returned to his home country church in Hanover and became parish pastor of St. Mary's Church in Isernhagen near Hanover. From 2002 to 2007 he served as Superintendent of the Church District Burgdorf before August 1, 2007 by the Church Senate of the Lutheran Evangelical Church of Hanover for national superintendent of the at that time newly structured Sprengel Ostfriesland-Ems based in Emden was appointed. He became the successor to Oda-Gebbine Holze-Stäblein , who was retiring.

Other functions (selection)

• Since 2002: Chairman examiner of the examination board of the 2nd theological exam (Pro Ministerio) of the Ev.-Luth. Regional Church of Hanover
• Since 2003: Member of the pastoral care committee of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany (VELKD)
• Since 2003: Member of the board of the Social Science Institute of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)
• Since 2005: Conventuals of the Amelungsborn Monastery
• Since 2007: Born member of the Evangelical Lutheran Bishops Council. Regional Church of Hanover
• Since 2007: Director of the Von Wangelin'sche Widow Foundation
• Since 2007: Chairman of the East Frisian Bible Society
• Since 2007: Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John
• Since 2008: Member of the State Youth Chamber
• Since 2009: Deputy Chairman of the Worship Committee of the VELKD
• Since 2009: Member of the EKD Synod
• Since 2010: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Hanns Lilje Foundation
• Since 2010: Member of the German National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation
• 2008–2012: Visitator (spiritual supervision) of the Lutherstift Falkenburg

Works (selection)

• Carl Johann Philipp Spitta (1801-1859): Theologian and poet of awakening , Göttingen 1999, 2nd edition 2009.
• Church history revision course , in collaboration with Wolfgang Sommer and Marcel Nieden, Stuttgart 2006 ⁴ .

Web links

• News from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover