Elke König (pedagogue)

Elke König (born January 29, 1956 ) is a German teacher and former president of the regional synod of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .

She grew up in Krien in what was then the Anklam district . After 1973 in Anklam had taken a high school, she studied in Greifswald to the Magisterium . After graduating as a graduate teacher for mathematics and physics in 1977, she worked as a teacher until 1987. She then worked as a research assistant at the University of Greifswald until 1989 and then, in the context of the fall of the Wall, until 1990 deputy school councilor in Greifswald. From 1991 to 2018 she headed the Greifswald study seminar at the State Institute for Schools and Training , later the Institute for Quality Development Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

In the early 1990s she was elected as an assessor in the presidium of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany , to which she has belonged since that time. At the Pomeranian State Synod in 1998 she was elected President. Since 2006 she has been Vice President, her successor as President was Rainer Dally . With the dissolution of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church in 2012, she took over as President of the subsequent Pomeranian Church District . She presided over the 12th Synod of the EKD in Bremen in November 2015 as Vice-President.

She was one of the authors of the study "Church with Hope", which was carried out between 1996 and 1998, on guidelines for church work in East Germany. She has also published articles in various educational journals.

Elke König is married to the former Lord Mayor of Greifswald Arthur König and has two children.

Web links

• 12th Synod of the EKD November 2015
• Seminar leader Elke König. Evangelical Church in Germany, accessed October 31, 2009 . 
• Praeses of the Pomeranian Synod celebrates its anniversary. Evangelical Church in Germany, January 25, 2006, accessed October 31, 2009 . 
• Presidium of the Pomeranian Church District Synod