Hans-Hermann Jantzen

Hans-Hermann Jantzen (born September 28, 1945 in Polle an der Weser ) is a German Lutheran theologian . From 1997 to 2011 he was state superintendent for the Lüneburg district of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover and from 2010 to 2011 he was also the episcopal vicar of his regional church.

Live and act

Hans-Hermann Jantzen grew up as the son of the Protestant superintendent in Cadenberge and has been a member of the Association of Christian Scouts and Boy Scouts since 1956 . After graduating from high school at the Athenaeum Stade , he studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Göttingen and Tübingen from 1965 to 1970 . After the first theological exam, he spent a year studying in Dallas , Texas / USA .

From 1971 to 1973 Jantzen completed his vicariate in Hildesheim and passed the Second Theological Examination in 1973.

In 1973 Jantzen took over his first pastor's position in Lehrte near Hanover and from there in 1980 he went to Hildesheim, where he worked as a study inspector at the St. Michaelis seminary .

In 1986 Hans-Hermann Jantzen was appointed pastor at the Petrikirche in Göttingen-Grone and at the same time as superintendent of the church district Göttingen-Nord. After an eleven-year tenure there, he was appointed - as successor to Hans-Christian Drömann - in 1997 to the state superintendent of the Lüneburg district of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover and as such was a member of the bishops' council of his regional church.

On February 25, 2010, after the resignation of the regional bishop Margot Käßmann , Jantzen was appointed episcopal vicar by the church senate and thus commissioned with the provisional management of the regional church . His retirement as a state superindentendent was originally planned for September 26, 2010. On March 13, 2011, Jantzen was adopted as retiring. His job as Episcopal Vicar ended on March 26, 2011, when the newly elected Bishop Ralf Meister took office .

Jantzen is married to the dentist Ursel Jantzen and has two grown children.

Other functions

• Member of the mission committee and the executive committee of the Evangelical Lutheran Missionswerk in Lower Saxony (formerly: Hermannsburg Mission ) in Hermannsburg
• Chairman of the Heide working group in the church service in leisure, recreation and tourism
• Chairman of the board of the Evangelical Foundation Hospital Ginsterhof in Tötensen

Fonts

• with Gerhard Isermeyer: The attitude of doctors and nursing staff to hospital pastoral care , pastoral sociological work center of the Evangelical Luth. Regional Church of Hanover, Hanover 1975
• as editor: The Citizens' Pulpit in St. Nicolai Lüneburg: Speeches from 1999 to 2005 , Landeszeitung für die Lüneburger Heide, Lüneburg 2006, ISBN 3-922639-09-7

literature

• Who is where in the Protestant Church? People and functions , ed. by Thomas Krüger, Carola Wolf and Udo Hahn, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-932194-29-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Hermann Jantzen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Image by Hans-Hermann Jantzen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ epd: Lüneburg state superintendent temporarily takes over the office of bishop in Hanover , epd press release of February 25, 2010, accessed on February 25, 2010.
2. ↑ Lüneburger Landessuperintendent Jantzen in retirement - Jantzen remains in office as deputy bishop for two weeks  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , Press release of the epd of March 13, 2011, accessed on April 3, 2011