Hans-Helmut Peters

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Hans-Helmut Peters (born July 21, 1908 in Harburg-Wilhelmsburg , † December 6, 1987 ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and state superintendent of the districts of Celle and Calenberg-Hoya of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover .

Life

After graduating from high school at Kaiserin-Auguste-Viktoria-Gymnasium in Hannover-Linden , Peters studied theology in Erlangen , Berlin and Göttingen from the summer semester of 1926 . From 1931 to 1933 he attended the seminary at the Erichsburg . On October 15, 1933, he was ordained in the Michaeliskirche in Hildesheim as pastor of the Hanover regional church. From 1933 to 1939 Peters worked as a travel preacher based in Nice in southern France and took over the administration of the parishes of Sanremo and Bordighera in Italy. On November 1, 1939, he switched to the external office of the German Evangelical Church (DEK) in Frankfurt am Main as an unskilled worker and became secretary of the Evangelical Relief Organization for internees and prisoners of war. In the same year he published a study on "Luther's influence in France and German Lutherans from 1517 to 1626". On July 15, 1940, he took up a position at the German Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church in Paris. Here he also acted as a special representative of the DEK's Church Foreign Office in France.

After returning to Germany, Peters became a pastor in Hattendorf in 1944 . In 1946, as pastor of the regional church, he took over the role of regional youth pastor and head of the regional youth pastoral office in the Office for Community Service in Hanover. He became chairman of the commission for youth work of the Lutheran World Federation and in 1952 organized the ecumenical youth conference in Hanover. After a brief activity as an assistant clerk in the regional church office, he became pastor and superintendent at the city church in Celle on October 1, 1955 . On July 1, 1959, he became state superintendent for the district of Celle. In 1969 he was also entrusted with the provision of the old Calenberg-Hoya district. After the dissolution of the district of Celle, he took over the management of the enlarged district of Calenberg-Hoya in 1971. He retired on August 1, 1976.

Even during his tenure as state superintendent, Peters cultivated relationships abroad. As a delegate of the Hanoverian regional church, he took part in Franco-German theological conferences and international church conferences, including the colloquium "Ten Years of Ecumenical Decree" at the Pontifical University of San Anselmo in Rome (1974). In 1966 he visited the Lutheran Goßner Church in Chota-Nagpur and Assam on a trip lasting several months .

literature

  • Ecclesiastical gazette for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover , 1/1988, p. 13
  • Christiane Tichy: The Church Foreign Office and the French Churches , in: Stefan Martens (Ed.): France and Germany at War: (November 1942 - autumn 1944); Occupation, collaboration, resistance; Files from the Franco-German Colloquium "La France et l'Allemagne en Guerre (November 1942 - Automne 1944)"; Paris March 22nd and 23rd, 1999 . Bonn: Bouvier 2000, pp. 163-174
  • Eckard Michels : The German Institute in Paris 1940-1944 - A Contribution to Franco-German Cultural Relations and Foreign Cultural Policy of the Third Reich , Franz Steiner Verlag 1993, pp. 79–82

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Superintendent Peters was 65 . In: The Message July 29, 1973
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Hans-Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and state superintendent
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Harburg-Wilhelmsburg
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1987