Eduard Berger

Eduard Berger (born June 22, 1944 in Posen ) is a German Protestant theologian and was bishop of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .

After completing his training as an electrical engineer and graduating from the church proseminar in Naumburg in 1964, Berger began studying Protestant theology at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . In 1965 he was sentenced to fifteen months imprisonment for attempting to “ illegally cross the border ”, after which he continued studying theology at the Catechetical College in Naumburg and at the Language Convict in Berlin .

After the ordination he was pastor in Kakerbeck from 1973 and from 1978 at the Weinbergskirch parish in Dresden . There he was processed by the Stasi in the operational process (OV) "provocateur" because of the demand for " social peace service " "hostile-negative". In 1983 he became superintendent and cathedral priest in Meißen , before he was elected bishop of the Pomeranian regional church in Greifswald in 1990 to succeed Horst Gienke . There he was in office until 2001. Afterwards, until his retirement in June 2009, he was the representative of the Protestant churches in Saxony at the Saxon state government and from 1998 to 2010 he was also the representative of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany for Protestant pastoral care at the federal police .

literature

Short biography for: Berger, Eduard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Horst Gienke	Bishop of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church 1990–2001	Hans-Jürgen Abromeit

personal data
SURNAME	Berger, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Protestant theologian, bishop of the Pomeranian regional church (1990-2001)
DATE OF BIRTH	June 22, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Poses