General Diocese of Hanover

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The General Diocese of Hanover was an ecclesiastical supervisory district in the area of today's Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover .

It was created in 1903 through the merger of the previous General Diocese of Calenberg with the General Superintendentur Lüneburg-Celle . When the regional church administration was reorganized under Regional Bishop August Marahrens in 1936, the Calenberg district was formed as a successor institution .

General superintendent

1903–1905: Carl Schuster (previously General Superintendent von Calenberg)
1905–1925: Friedrich Ludwig Hermann Möller
1925–1933: Hans Süssmann
1933–1936: Karl Stalmann

literature

Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation , Volume 1, Göttingen 1941, p. 411.