Gottfried Sprondel
Gottfried Sprondel (born September 19, 1930 in Glowitz in Pomerania; † September 18, 2002 ) was a German Protestant theologian and state superintendent for the Osnabrück district of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover .
biography
Sprondel was the son of Pastor Walter Sprondel, who worked in Glowitz from 1927 to 1932, from 1932 to 1945 at the Heiliggeistkirche in Stargard and from 1946 to 1956 at the Bremen Cathedral . After his school days in Bremen, Gottfried Sprondel studied Protestant theology at the University of Göttingen , the University of Heidelberg and the University of Paris and received his doctorate in 1963 in Göttingen in D. theol.
From 1959 to 1976 he was pastor at the parish of the Liebfrauenkirche Bremen . During this time, the church was completely renovated according to plans by Dieter Oesterlen and the church windows by the French artist Alfred Manessier were installed .
From 1976 to 1982 he was superintendent of the church district Hanover-Nordost and pastor at the Markuskirche in the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover. In 1979 he was elected to the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany , where he represented conservative positions. In the same year, the synodal group Lebendige Volkskirche was founded in the Hanoverian regional church , and he assumed its chairmanship. From 1982 to 1995 he held the post of state superintendent in the Osnabrück district as the successor to Kurt Schmidt-Clausen . Dieter Zinßer followed him in office. He was involved in the Osnabrück peace talks .
In 1979 Sprondel became a knight of honor, in 1988 a legal knight of the Order of St. John .
Sprondel's brother Walter Michael (* 1938) is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Tübingen .
Works (selection)
- Investigations into the self-understanding and piety of the ancient wisdom of Israel , dissertation University of Göttingen, 1963
- with Jürgen Schultze: Unser Lieben Frauen , 1st edition 1975, 6th edition 1995, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin
- Research on social history at the OT and its theological results .
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gottfried Sprondel in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sprondel, Gottfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian and state superintendent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glowitz in Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 2002 |