Heinrich Herrmanns

Heinrich Herrmanns (born April 9, 1939 in Łódź , Poland ) is a Lutheran theologian and long-time regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schaumburg-Lippe .

Live and act

After studying and serving as a vicarage in 1969, Herrmanns first became pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria in Kulmbach . In 1979 he was appointed to the state youth pastor of the Bavarian regional church and in 1985 took over the office of dean in Memmingen .

In 1991 the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church in Schaumburg-Lippe elected him regional bishop . He succeeded Joachim Heubach .

In this office, based in Bückeburg , he worked until 2001 and then handed it over to Jürgen Johannesdotter .

During his episcopal tenure, the Schaumburg-Lippische Landeskirche introduced the ordination of women in 1991 - as the last German regional church. Herrmanns also contributed to the fact that the regional church's membership in the World Council of Churches (WCC) , which had been suspended due to differences of opinion under Bishop Heubach , was reactivated in 1994.

In retirement he is on the board of directors of the regional church community in Memmingen ( the Apis ).

Other functions

For many years Heinrich Herrmanns was chairman of the board of trustees of the theological study seminar of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany (VELKD) in Pullach , chaired the theological convent of the Augsburg Confession , was chairman of the Evangelical Family Recreation and member of the advisory board of the military chaplaincy of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).

Publications

• The church meal
• The sensation is ER - Come to the Lord's Supper . Freimund Verlag , stapled, ISBN 978-3-86540-085-7
• Guest on earth
• Joy in everyday life - Biblical advice and life instructions . Freimund Verlag , stapled, ISBN 978-3-86540-062-8
• Sign of faith as a reference to the center . Rauhen Haus agency , Hamburg 1980, ISBN 3-7600-0307-9
• Signs of Faith - Christian symbols and their meanings . Freimund Verlag , stapled, ISBN 978-3-86540-104-5
• Carrying comfort in mourning - seeking refuge in God in sad and deadly times . (with Eduard Haller) Freimund Verlag , stapled, ISBN 978-3-86540-006-2

literature

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

Web link

• Literature by and about Heinrich Herrmanns in the catalog of the German National Library