Friedrich Weber (theologian)

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Friedrich Weber (* 27. February 1949 in Ehringshausen ; † 19th January 2015 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German Protestant theologian, from 1 March 2002 to 31 May 2014 Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick and from 26 September 2012 Executive President of the Community of Evangelical Churches in Europe (CPCE).

biography

After graduating from high school, Weber studied Protestant theology , history and education at the Landgraf-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Gießen in 1967 in Wuppertal , Göttingen and Oldenburg . Weber passed the first theological exam in March 1972 and the second in March 1974. On April 6, 1975 Weber was ordained to the Reformed Confession in Greetsiel . He received a doctorate in church history at the University of Frankfurt am Main to Dr. theol. with a work on canon law education and religious-ethical standardization in East Frisia and Emden until the end of the 16th century. He had been a member of the “Greetsieler Woche working group” since 1972. As vicar and pastor, Weber worked in Greetsiel from 1972 to 1984. As part of the Confederation of Protestant Churches in Lower Saxony, founded in 1973, he developed a cooperative course pastoral care model that brought together both the communal and the church partners in the region.

From 1984 to 1991 Weber was pastor at the Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim am Rhein and Dean of the Deanery Oppenheim / Rhein.

1991 was to 2002 he Propst (Regional Bishop) of the provost South Nassau (13 deaneries, now 8) and will be based in Wiesbaden , the Rheingau, the Main-Taunus-Kreis, the high-Taunus-Kreis, Rhein-Lahn District and the state capital Wiesbaden. He represented the Reformed Confession in the leading spiritual office of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN) and the Reformed congregations of the EKHN in the modern name of the Reformed Covenant . In the Provostei Süd-Nassau Weber advocated a new form of visitations (congregational visiting services), with which the church work on site (congregation development) was organized more efficiently. His involvement in the implementation of a church reform in the EKHN to strengthen the so-called “middle level” (deaneries) and the realignment of visits is also considered essential. In the EKHN he was active both in the church leadership and in the "leading spiritual office". As chairman of the Evangelical Academy Arnoldshain / Taunus he reformed the work of the academy and reoriented it.

With his study Church in Transition , published in 2004, a necessary church reform process in the Braunschweig regional church was opened. The visitation, understood as a fraternal visiting service serving to build up the community, was redeveloped through his initiative in the Braunschweig regional church.

Weber was theologically influenced by Ernst Wolf (1902–1971).

Friedrich Weber had been with the teacher Bielda Weber, geb. Willms, married from Middelstewehr / East Friesland. The couple has two children with a doctorate, the lawyer Hedda Anne Weber (1973) and the private lecturer in medicine Christian Friedrich Weber (1977), as well as three grandchildren. Weber died of cancer on January 19, 2015 at the age of 65 in a hospital in Frankfurt am Main.

Offices

Weber was chairman of the convent of the Evangelical Academy Arnoldshain from 1991 to 2002 . The foundation of the "Abbot Jerusalem Academy" in Braunschweig, which has been one of the Evangelical Academies in Germany since November 2011, goes back to his initiative. From 2003 to the end of May 2011 he was Chairman of the University Council of the Technical University of Braunschweig . His maximum term of office ended in rotation after a re-election in 2007. He has also been a lecturer in church history there since 2004. In May 2008 he was appointed honorary professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Since 2003 he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB) in Wolfenbüttel. He was one of the initiators of the Wolfenbütteler Talks “Religions in Civil Society”, since 2003. Also since 2003 Weber has written sermons for the internet platform Göttingen Sermons on the Internet at regular intervals . From 2004 to 2009 he was chairman of the Theological Study Seminar of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany (VELKD) in Pullach near Munich. From January 1, 2005 to 2014, he was Vice President of the Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz Foundation .

From 2005 to 2014 Friedrich Weber was Catholica representative of the VELKD. He was chairman of the Council of the Confederation of Protestant Churches in Lower Saxony from January 2006 to December 2011. During this time, he consistently advocated the establishment of a hardship commission and Sunday protection in Lower Saxony. It is thanks to his initiative that since 2009 intensive work has been carried out on the further development of the cooperation between the Protestant churches in Lower Saxony - under the motto of independent and cooperative - and a new confederation agreement was concluded in March 2014. In January 2014 the two diaconal organizations of the Braunschweig and Hanover regional churches had already merged to form the new "Diakonie in Lower Saxony". He has chaired the board of trustees of the denominational institute of the Evangelical Federation in Bensheim / Bergstrasse since 2007. He was chairman of the Working Group of Christian Churches in Germany (ACK) from March 2007 to March 2013. He was a member of the contact discussion group of the EKD and the German Bishops' Conference from 2007 to 2014. From 2008 he was Protestant chairman of the bilateral teaching discussion group (dialogue commission) of the VELKD and the German Bishops' Conference “God and Human Dignity”. His appointment as "Ecumenical Canon" (Ecumenical Canon) of the Cathedral of Blackburn (England) of the Anglican Church took place on January 27, 2008. He was co-chair of the Meissen Commission of the EKD and the Church of England by the Council of the EKD Appointed in 2009. From 2010 he was co-editor and chairman of the editorial group of the Ecumenical Review . From April 2010 to December 2012 he was chairman of the mission committee of the Evangelical Lutheran Missionswerk in Lower Saxony (formerly: Hermannsburg Mission) in Hermannsburg . From 2011 to 2012 he was a member of the German Ecumenical Study Committee as a representative of the EKD. In his capacity as Executive President of the Community of Evangelical Churches in Europe (CPCE), he led the international theological consultation between the CPCE and the Pontifical Unity Council on the subject of “Church fellowship” on the Protestant side from 2013. In 2014 he was commissioned by the EKD Council to chair the project management "International Station Path to the Reformation Anniversary 2017".

At the end of May 2014, after reaching the age of 65 and 24 years in the episcopal office (regional and regional bishop), Regional Bishop Weber retired and handed over the leadership of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church in Braunschweig to Christoph Meyns (* 1962).

Weber was also a member of the board of trustees of the evangelical association ProChrist , an organizer of mass evangelization events close to the YMCA .

Selected publications

A complete list of publications can be found on the website of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig,

Book publications

  • Greetsiel. The village of fishermen and artists , Norden 1980: Druck und Verlag H. Soltau, ISBN 978-392236-512-9
  • Chronicle Greetsiels 1884–1925 (Ed.), Greetsiel 1983
  • Ostfriesisches Andachtsbuch (Ed.), Norden 1985: Verlag Soltau-Kurier
  • The grave monuments of the Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim (ed.), Oppenheim 1985
  • I Believe in God - Sermons on the Creed , Oppenheim 1987
  • St. Katharinen zu Oppenheim. A little guide . Oppenheim 1990
  • Our Father in Heaven - Sermons on the Our Father , Oppenheim 1991, ISBN 3-87854-083-3
  • Greetsiel - A fishing village on the North Sea , North 1993: SKN, ISBN 978-392832-706-0
  • Sendrecht, Policey, Church discipline. Education in canon law and religious-ethical standardization in East Frisia and Emden until the end of the 16th century . Frankfurt / M., Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Vienna 1998: Theion - Yearbook for Religious Culture Volume 9, ISBN 978-36313-3506-2
  • Greetsiel through the ages 1900–2000. The former pastors of the fishing village report , ed. and edited by Friedrich Weber, Wuppertal 2001, ISBN 978-39327-3555-4
  • Church in Transition , Wuppertal 2004, ISBN 3-932735-88-9
  • Church between heaven and earth , Wuppertal 2004, ISBN 3-932735-84-6
  • Help me die? (Ed.), Hannover 2006: Lutherisches Verlagshaus, ISBN 978-378590-959-1
  • Bishop's sermons from the Braunschweig Cathedral , ed. by Joachim Hempel, Braunschweig 2007, ISBN 3-9809731-3-1
  • Church between state and creed. 75 years of the Barmen Theological Declaration. Wolfenbüttel 2009: Ev.-luth. Regional church in Braunschweig, without ISBN
  • To thank. Hanover 2009, ISBN 978-3-7859-1005-4
  • Angel. Hanover 2010, ISBN 978-3-7859-1030-6
  • Time announcement. Texts on the ecumenical situation. With a foreword by Cardinal Walter Kasper . Frankfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-87476-630-2
  • Courage. LVH, Hannover 2011, ISBN 978-3-7859-1037-5
  • Beginning. Hanover 2012, ISBN 978-3-7859-1099-3
  • Church in our time. Sources and Perspectives. Wolfenbüttel 2013, ISBN 978-3-9813453-3-9
  • Mercy in the law: The hardship commission in Lower Saxony . Legal working papers of the TU Braunschweig - RATUBS No. 5/23013, Braunschweig 2013, ISSN  2190-5606 ( PDF file )
  • evangelical - free - responsible. Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-374-03796-4

Books and writings - edited with others

  • St. Katharinen zu Oppenheim , ed. by Carlo Servatius, Heinrich Steitz , Friedrich Weber, Alzey 1989, ISBN 3-87854-072-8
  • Religious Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany , ed. by Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz , Friedrich Weber, Karin Weintz, Arnoldshainer Texte 111, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-89846-026-6
  • Community and accountability. Visitation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig , ed. by Rüdiger Becker, Wilfried Theilemann, Friedrich Weber, Wolfenbüttel 2005
  • From the baptism of the Saxons to the church in Lower Saxony. History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig , ed. by Friedrich Weber, Birgit Hoffmann, Hans-Jürgen Engelking, Braunschweig 2010, ISBN 978-3-941737-25-9
  • Buß things , pictures by Hermann Buß and texts by Alfred Buß , ed. by Friedrich Weber, Klaus Winterhoff , Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-7858-0604-3
  • Independent and cooperative - Evangelical in Lower Saxony. 40 Years Confederation of Protestant Churches in Lower Saxony , ed. by Friedrich Weber and Hans Otte , Hannover 2011, ISBN 978-3-7859-1067-2
  • Visitation to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig. Materials for preparation, implementation and evaluation , ed. by Pia Dittmann-Saxel, Cornelia Götz, Katharina Meyer, Friedrich Weber, Wolfenbüttel 2012

As a member of the leading spiritual office of the EKHN

  • Order and shape. From the need to save to the improvement of the Church . EKHN - Documentation Volume 1, Frankfurt 1995, ISBN 3-930206-30-7
  • Gays, lesbians .... - Church. Homosexuality and Church Action . EKHN - Documentation Volume 2, Frankfurt 1996, ISBN 3-930206-32-3
  • Parish and parish. To clarify their tasks . EKHN - Documentation Volume 4, Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-930206-38-2

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Weber (Theologe)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Former regional bishop Friedrich Weber is dead. ( Memento from January 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Obituary on ndr.de from January 20, 2015 (accessed on January 20, 2015).
  2. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 23, 2015 (accessed January 23, 2015).
  3. Announcement of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig from November 23, 2013 ( memento of the original from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 24, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landeskirche-braunschweig.de
predecessor Office successor
Christian Krause
Regional
Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig
2002–2014
Christoph Meyns