Ernst Schacht

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Ernst Schacht (born February 2, 1953 in Krasnoturjinsk , Soviet Union ; † July 1, 2008 in Abbensen (Edemissen) ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran bishop .

Life

Ernst Schacht was a trained electrician. He also served as a lay preacher . Schacht emigrated from Kazakhstan to Germany in 1979 . After training as a preacher at the Theological Seminary St. Chrischona Bettingen BS , he became the managing director of the Church Community of Evangelical Lutheran Germans from Russia .

1988 Schacht was in Riga on the reestablishment of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Soviet Union involved, from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Central Asia (ELCROS) emerged. In 1996 the Synod of the Siberian District of the ELCRAS (which has since become the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Urals, Siberia and the Far East ) elected Ernst Schacht as its superintendent . His office was in Omsk, Siberia . He made a special contribution to the establishment of the church center in Omsk. In 1997 Schacht received the title of bishop. In 1998 he resigned from office due to illness. He then took over a pastor's position in Vöhrum near Peine until his early retirement .

literature

  • Hans-Christian Diedrich: "Where should we go ...". The path of the Christians through the Soviet persecution of religion. A Russian Church History of the 20th Century from an Ecumenical Perspective. Martin Luther Verlag, Erlangen 2007, ISBN 978-3-87513-160-4 .
  • Walter Graßmann: Lutherans. In: Lothar Weiß (Ed.): Russian-German Migration and Protestant Churches (= Bensheimer Hefte. No. 115). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-87241-3 , pp. 74-94.
  • Tatiana Muramzewa: To Siberia! An overwhelming country. In: Lutherischer Dienst: special issue of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Urals, Siberia and the Far East (= 50th year, 2014, issue 2), pp. 26–28.
  • Joachim Willems: Lutherans and Lutheran Congregations in Russia. An Empirical Study of Religion in the Post-Soviet Context. Martin-Luther-Verlag, Erlangen 2005, ISBN 3-87513-142-8 (Hamburg, University, evang. Theol. Dissertation, 2003).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Graßmann: Lutheraner. In: Lothar Weiß (Ed.): Russian-German Migration and Protestant Churches. 2013, p. 83.
  2. ↑ Tatiana Muramzewa: To Siberia! An overwhelming country. In: Lutherischer Dienst: special issue of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Urals, Siberia and the Far East (= 50th year, 2014, issue 2), p. 28.
  3. ↑ Ernst Schacht died. Martin Luther Bund, August 1, 2008, accessed January 2, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Eastern Church Information IV-2008 Bishop Ernst Schacht died : [1] 2008
personal data
SURNAME Schacht, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran bishop
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Krasnoturyinsk
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 2008
Place of death Abbensen (Edemissen)