General Diocese of Hildesheim
The General Diocese of Hildesheim was an ecclesiastical supervisory district in the area of today's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover .
It was created in 1806 through the amalgamation of the General Dözesen Alfeld and Bockenem , which in turn were formed in 1569 as part of the church reorganization of the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . The seat of the general superintendent, who had been a member of the consistory and the Hanover regional church office since 1818 , was initially Alfeld , then Elze and, from 1853, Hildesheim . In 1903 the general superintendent were reorganized. In the General Diocese of Hildesheim, the previous General Diocese of Göttingen went up. The enlarged district thus encompassed the entire south of the Prussian province of Hanover .
With the formation of the new district under Bishop August Marahrens in 1936, the General Diocese of Hildesheim was dissolved and the area of the former Principality of Hildesheim with the church district Clausthal-Zellerfeld was combined to form the district of Hildesheim-Harz with its seat in Goslar .
General superintendent
General superintendents of Hildesheim were:
- 1806–1828: August Friedrich Brackmann
- 1829–1833: Friedrich Brandis
- 1833–1852: Christian Bauer
- 1853–1866: Eduard Twele
- 1866–1868: Karl Erck
- 1870–1872: Christfried Albert Thilo
- 1872–1901: Eduard Hahn
- 1903–1925: Theodor Hoppe
- 1925–1936: Karl Stisser
literature
- Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation , Volume 1, Göttingen 1941, p. 500.
- Rudolf Steinmetz: Die General Superintendenten von Hildesheim , II, In: Journal of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History 1939, p. 133 ff.