Hans Otte (theologian)

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Hans Otte (* 1950 in Hanover ) is a Protestant theologian , author and editor . Hans Otte was director of the State Church Archives in Hanover for many years . He is an adjunct professor for Church history in Lower Saxony at the University of Göttingen .

Hans Otte, 2013

Life

After graduating from high school in Hanover in 1969, Hans Otte studied Protestant theology, philosophy and history in Bethel , Heidelberg and Göttingen from 1969 to 1974 .

In Göttingen he then prepared for the profession of pastor in the vicariate from 1974 to 1975 . In 1974 he passed his first theological exam , in 1976 his second.

In Göttingen Otte worked from 1976 to 1978 as a research assistant under Professor Hans Walter Krumwiede to 1979-1980 archive - trainee and since 1981 as the national Ecclesiastical Archivist: to act (now Executive Director Archive) of Landeskirchlichen archive Hannover. In addition, he was head of the library in the regional church office since 1994 . 1987 doctorate Hans Otte to the doctor of theology; He wrote his dissertation at the University of Göttingen under the title Mild Enlightenment: Theology and Church Management with Johann Hinrich Pratje (1710–1791), General Superintendent of the Duchies of Bremen and Verden .

Hans Otte completed his habilitation in 2005 and was appointed adjunct professor in 2012. He is married and has three children. At the end of September 2015, Otte retired as the regional church archive director.

Memberships / other offices

Research priorities

Hans Otte on the computer in the regional church archive of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover

Hans Otte researches in particular to

Fonts

In addition, he published, among other things:

  • Halle, Stuttgart and elsewhere. On the importance of the Bible societies in Germany in the 19th century . In: Pietismus und Neuzeit 40 (2014), pp. 97–122.
  • More churches? Growing cities as a church challenge in the 19th century . In: The Power of Cities. From antiquity to the present (= Historical European Studies, 4). Edited by Michael Gehler. Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2010, pp. 351–376.
  • Place of restlessness and edification. Pews and pews in the church . In: The Radiance of the Reformation. Contributions to the church and everyday life in north-west Germany . Edited by Helge Bei der Wieden, Göttingen 2011, pp. 141–165.
  • Archives and libraries as part of church culture . In: From evangelical archives 50 (2010), pp. 21–44.
  • A difficult legacy in retrospect. The Hanover State Church and the Henrietten Foundation after 1945 . In: Servants of the Lord. Contributions to female diakonia in the 19th and 20th centuries (= historical-theological gender research, 5). Edited by Jochen-Christoph Kaiser and R. Scheepers. Leipzig 2010, pp. 184-209.
  • The Protestant churches in Lower Saxony 1918–1990 . In: History of Lower Saxony , Vol. 5: From the Weimar Republic to Reunification , Hanover 2010, pp. 1023–1107.
  • Aren't we all Protestant? Denomination and community formation in northwest Germany after the Second World War . In: Migration and Confession. Confessional Identities in the Refugee Movement after 1945 . Edited by Uwe Rieske. Gütersloh 2010, pp. 202–244.
  • Agree, adapt, resist. The St. Sixti parish in Northeim during the National Socialist era . In: Northeimer Jahrbuch , 75 (2010), pp. 69–92.
  • Forms of transition. The connection of the church districts Pyrmont and Grafschaft Schaumburg to the Hanover regional church . In: From compulsion to the matter of course. 75 years of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck . Edited by Jürgen Römer, Bad Arolsen 2009, pp. 69–107.
  • Pragmatism as a leitmotif. Walther Lampe , the Reich Office for Family Research and archive maintenance of the Hanoverian regional church during the Nazi era . In: Church administrative assistance. The Church and the persecution of the Jews in the “Third Reich” . Edited by Manfred Gailus , Göttingen 2008, pp. 131–194.
  • Salvation of Lutheranism? The Bremen Cathedral in Swedish hands . In: Yearbook for Silesian Church History 87 (2008), pp. 159–180.
  • Theological Liberalism. The Celle Conferences of 1862/63 and their environment . In: Yearbook of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History 106 (2008), pp. 55–80.
  • Celebrating a Troubled Start? The example of the church registry office in Hanover . In: Church archives with a future. Festschrift for Bernd Hey . Gütersloh 2007, pp. 225–244.
  • Arriving in a strange church? Evangelical Lutherans and Reformed in Emsland after 1945 . In: Expulsion and arrival in Lower Saxony. A chapter of church history . Edited by Ellen Ueberschär . Rehburg-Loccum 2007, pp. 101-120.
  • Municipal church patronage and ecclesiastical ministries in the 20th century. The example of the Church City Federation of the Province of Hanover . In: Sabine Arend u. a. (Ed.): Diversity and topicality of the Middle Ages. Festschrift for Wolfgang Petke on his 65th birthday . Gütersloh 2006, pp. 505-539.
  • Agnes von Grone (1889-1980) . In: Profiles of women in Lutheranism. Life stories in the 20th century. Edited by Inge Mager . Gütersloh 2005, pp. 296–321.
  • Selma Countess von der Groben (1856–1938) . In: Profiles of women in Lutheranism. Life stories in the 20th century . Edited by Inge Mager. Gütersloh 2005, pp. 47-64.
  • The creation of the Loccumer Treaty . In: Connected in freedom. 50 years of the Loccum contract . Hanover 2005, pp. 23-55.
  • Return of the spiritual school inspectorate? The school policy of the Hanoverian regional church in the Weimar Republic . In: transforming God's word into life. Perspectives on (North) German Church History . Hannover 2005, pp. 369-404.
  • British magazine for preachers / Eusebia / Magazine for Philosophy of Religion, Exegesis and Church History / Religious Annals . In: German press. Biobibliographic handbooks on the history of the German-language periodical press , Vol. 3, Stuttgart 2003, Sp. 360–398; 586-595.
  • The religious consequences of the Peace of Westphalia for the city of Bremen . In: Hospitium Ecclesiae 22 (2003), pp. 19-38.
  • Regional church in crisis. The schaumburg-Lippe regional church 1918–1936 and the connection to the Lutheran regional church of Hanover . In: Yearbook of the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony 100 (2002), pp. 145–201.
  • Gerhard Uhlhorn . Estate and bibliography . Hanover 2002.
  • The Pietist Laity in Germany 1675-1750. Knowledge, gender, leadership , In: Deryck W. Lovegrove (ed.): The Rise of the Laity in Evangelical Protestantism London 2002, pp. 47-63.
  • The church tax in Hanover. From the 'church complex' to the state church tax . In: Yearbook of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History 99 (2001), pp. 227–286.
  • The church and the consistory in Otterndorf after the Reformation . In: Otterndorf. 600 years of city history on the North Sea , ed. by Axel Behne, Otterndorf 2000, pp. 163-181.
  • The history of the churches . In: Göttingen. History of a University Town , Vol. 3, ed. by Rudolf von Thadden and Günter J. Trittel, Göttingen 1999, pp. 591–673.
  • The Hanover garrison church . Construction and destruction of a symbol . In: City and Tradition. Festschrift for Klaus Mlynek . Edited by Karljosef Kreter and Gerhard Schneider, Hannover 1999, pp. 247–268.
  • Ecclesiastical poor relief in northern German cities between enlightenment and awakening: Hamburg, Braunschweig, Osnabrück . In: Pietismus und Neuzeit 25, 1999, pp. 125–157.
  • Continuity in transition. The regional church and the change in the episcopate from August Marahrens to Hanns Lilje . In: Can you run a democracy in a Christian way? . Edited by Wolfgang Vögele, Rehburg-Loccum 1999, pp. 54–76.
  • August Marahrens . In: Profiles of Lutheranism. 20th Century Biographies . Edited by Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Gütersloh 1998, pp. 503-528.
  • Liberal theology and political engagement with Friedrich Gottfried Rettig, General Superintendent and President of the Göttingen Citizens' Assembly in 1848 . In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 46, 1998, pp. 93–113.
  • More than a loose juxtaposition? Basic lines of a history of the State Association for Inner Mission in Hanover . In: Social work from a historical perspective. To the historical place of diaconia in Germany . Edited by Jochen-Christoph Kaiser. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1998, pp. 1-24.
  • Giving shape to ideas. The social politician Theodor Lohmann in the Central Committee for Inner Mission . In: Social Reform in the Empire . Edited by Wilfried Loth and Jochen-Christoph Kaiser. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1997, pp. 32-55.
  • Protestant parishes as a resistant milieu? Observations based on the available regional studies . In: Adaptation, Refusal, Resistance. Social milieus, political culture and the resistance against National Socialism in Germany . Edited by Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann , Berlin 1997, pp. 165–191.
  • Zeitgeist and monastery community in Marienwerder 1196–1996 . In: Yearbook of the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony 94 (1996), pp. 165–194.
  • Charity - Christian or Church? Gerhard Uhlhorn's importance for determining the location of the Diakonie in the German Empire . In: Diakonie in the German Empire (1871-1918). Recent contributions from research on the history of diakonia . Edited by Theodor Strohm and Jörg Thierfelder . Heidelberg 1995, pp. 334-355.
  • "More churches - more churchgoers". The Lutheran Church in Hanover between 1850 and 1914 . In: European Religion in the Age of Great Cities 1830–1930 . Edited by Hugh McLeod . London / New York 1995, pp. 90-118.
  • School between denominations: The lower school system of the Reformed minority of the Duchy of Bremen . In: The lower school system in the transition from the 18th to the 19th century . Edited by Peter Albrecht and Ernst Hinrichs, Tübingen 1995, pp. 133–157.
  • Loyalty and modernization in a crisis. The ev.-luth. Church and its political environment in Hanover during the Weimar Republic . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 48 (1994), pp. 291-325.
  • Christian Poor Relief between Enlightenment and Revival in the Cities of Northern Germany . In: Crown and Miter. Religion and Society in Northern Europe since the Reformation , Woodbridge 1993, pp. 123-138.
  • Unions and attempts at union in the Kingdom of Hanover between 1815 and 1848 . In: Yearbook of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History 89 (1991), pp. 237–275.
  • “Mild Enlightenment”: theology and church leadership with Johann Hinrich Pratje (1710–1791), general superintendent of the duchies of Bremen and Verden (= studies on the church history of Lower Saxony , volume 30). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-525-55234-3 (also dissertation at the University of Göttingen 1987/88).
  • Sensible and Christian: The draft of a Brem-Verdian church ordinance from 1769 . Göttingen / Stade 1989.
  • Religious, mild, charitable from the Middle Ages to the present day. On the legal status of the Evangelical Foundations Osnabrück. In: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen , 93, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1988, pp. 115–150, in: Studies on the Church History of Lower Saxony , Volume 31, and publications from the Stade City Archives , Vol. 9, ISBN 3-525-55235-1
  • Supervision and care: the Hanoverian church commission in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: Yearbook of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History 83, 1985, pp. 179–199.
As editor
  • Evangelical monastery life. Studies on the history of the Protestant monasteries and monasteries in Lower Saxony (= studies on the church history of Lower Saxony, 46). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3- 8471-0066-9.
  • (with Ronald Uden) Lower Saxony 100 times. Church and Culture . Hanover 2011.
  • (with Michael Beyer and others) Regional Church History. Concepts and concretions. Conference of the German Church History Working Group in the Amelungsborn Monastery (= hostels of Christendom: Yearbook for German Church History , Special Volume 14, and Studies on German Church History , Vol. 7). Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig 2008; therein: Introduction , pp. 7-12; Regional church identity in Prussia , ISBN 978-3-374-02633-3 , pp. 67-88.
  • (with Hans Schneider ) Piety or Theology. Johann Arndt and the "Four Books of True Christianity" (= Studies on the Church History of Lower Saxony , Vol. 40). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-89971-386-2 or ISBN 3-89971-386-9 .
  • (with Dorothea Biermann) Women's Christianity stories from Lower Saxony . Hanover 2003.
  • (with Heinrich Grosse and Joachim Perels ) New beginning after the Nazi rule. The Hanover regional church after 1945 . Hanover 2002.- Therein: The Hanoverian Regional Church after 1945: Continuity, Break and Awakening , pp. 11–48; Diakonie in the post-war period. The structure of the Evangelical Aid Organization, pp. 129–152.
  • Finding aid for the files of the consistory in Stade (1652–1903) in state and church archives . Edited by Brage Bei der Wieden, Sabine Graf and Hans Otte. Stade 2002.
  • (with Thomas Scharf-Wrede) Caritas and Diakonie in the Nazi era. Examples from Lower Saxony . Hildesheim 2000. Therein: Introduction , pp. 7-11; The tradition of the Hanoverian Diakonie and the State Association for Inner Mission in the Nazi Era, pp. 107–127.
  • (with Arnulf Baumann) Hanns Lilje : In the dark valley. Looking back on imprisonment . LVH, Hannover 1999. ISBN 3-7859-0781-8
  • (with Richard Schenk) The Reunion Talks in Lower Saxony in the 17th century. Rojas y Spinola - Molan - Leibniz . (= Studies on the Church History of Lower Saxony , Vol. 37). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999. ISBN 3-525-55242-4 . In it: change of faith, religious policy and reunification of the churches. The beginning of the reunion negotiations and the interests of the Guelph dukes , pp. 57–84.
  • East Friesland in the regional church archive. An overview of the holdings (= publications from the Landeskirchliche Archiv Hannover , issue 4). Edited by Hans Otte and Jörg Rohde. Hanover 1998. ISBN 3-9806265-0-4
  • The central archives in the Evangelical Church (= handbook of the church archives , Vol. 1, as well as publications of the Working Group of Archives and Libraries in the Evangelical Church . Vol. 3). Edited by Hans Otte with the collaboration of Beate Magen. Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1997, ISBN 3-7686-2077-8 .
  • (with Bert Ungerer) Melanchthon on the Bult . A parish and its district . Published by the Melanchthon congregation, Hanover-Bult, on the occasion of the 500th birthday of the reformer and humanist Philipp Melanchthon, 1997.
  • (with Heinrich W. Grosse, Joachim Perels) Preservation without confession? The Hanoverian regional church under National Socialism . Hanover 1996.
  • Gerhard Uhlhorn: Writings on social ethics and diakonia . Hanover 1990.

literature

  • Inge Mager (Hrsg.): Passing on - researching - passing on. Festschrift for Hans Otte on his 65th birthday. Yearbook of the Society for Church History in Lower Saxony, Volume 113, Hannover 2015, OCLC 920854420 .

Web links

Commons : Hans Otte (archivist)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Hans Otte on the website of the theological faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  2. ^ Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht V&R unipress: Hans Otte , introduction of the author by the publisher
  3. ↑ a b c Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Ed.): Editor. Authors. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 702f.
  4. ↑ http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/56786.html
  5. ↑ http://www.landeskirche-hannovers.de/evlka-de/wir-ueber-uns/weiter-einrichtungen/bibliothek/kontakt
  6. ↑ Diss. 1987/1988 in the catalog ( DNB 890195684 ) of the German National Library
  7. ↑ Long-time Protestant archive director Otte is retiring , press release from August 28, 2015
  8. ↑ Dr. Hans Otte (Ho). In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 9, online via Google Books
personal data
SURNAME Otte, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, author and editor, director of the regional church archive in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover