Hans Ulrich Anke

Hans Ulrich Anke (born September 1, 1968 in Hanover ) is a lawyer in the Church Service of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), since 2010 President of the Church Office of the EKD and head of its Main Department I (Management, Law and Finance).

Life

Hans Ulrich Anke grew up in Rodenberg am Deister in Lower Saxony . From 1989 to 1995 he studied law and Romance studies in Göttingen and Caen in France . From 1995 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the chair for public law and church law at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and received his doctorate in 1999 with the thesis on "the redefinition of the state-church relationship in the new states through state church treaties " ( see also: State Church Law (Germany) ).

In 1998 Anke became a trainee lawyer at the Lübeck Regional Court . Two years later he moved to the Hanover Regional Church Office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover as a lawyer , from 2003 as Senior Councilor and from 2007 as Senior Councilor a. a. for the areas of church tax , budgets of regional church associations, allocations to church bodies and asset supervision.

In 2008 Anke moved from the Hanover regional church office to the church office of the Evangelical Church in Germany , also located in Hanover , where he became vice president and head of the legal department. Two years later, Anke was elected as the successor to Hermann Barth as the (so far youngest) President of the Church Office of the EKD. He took over this task on December 1, 2010.

Anke is a member of the AMCHA Germany Board of Trustees . He is chairman of the board of the Evangelical Wittenberg Foundation of the EKD. Since 2014 he has been chairman of the supervisory board of Diaconal Services in Hanover and has been Diakovere's successor to this day . Anke is a member of the supervisory board of the joint venture of Evangelical Journalism and the Evangelical Bank . Anke has been a member of the ZDF television council since January 2011 .

Hans Ulrich Anke is married and has three children.

Fonts

• The redefinition of the state-church relationship in the new states through state church treaties: on the possibilities and limits of the state church treaty instrument. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-16-147319-1 (also dissertation , University of Halle, 1999).
• as editor, together with Heinrich de Wall and Hans Michael Heinig : Handbuch des Evangelischen Kirchenrechts . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-16-154606-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Ulrich Anke in the catalog of the German National Library
• EKD press release on the election to the presidency
• Portrait on the EKD homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://diakonische-dienste-hannover.de/upload_presse/PM_DDH-Zukunft-Neuer_Aufsichstrat-1403041.pdf
2. ↑ Annual Report 2015 of the Evangelische Bank, p. 56