Helge Klassohn

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Helge Klassohn (born April 25, 1944 in Riga , Reichskommissariat Ostland ) is a Protestant theologian and was church president of the Evangelical Church in Anhalt from 1994 to 2008, based in Dessau .

Live and act

Helge Klassohn came as the second child of the journalist Carl Klassohn and the teacher Erka Klassohn born. from Baehr to the world. After the escape, the family first lived in Groß Kreutz near Brandenburg (Havel) and then from 1953 in Mahlow near Berlin. From 1958 to 1961, Klassohn attended the Eckener high school in Berlin-Mariendorf and worked in the Berlin State Museums after the Wall was built in 1961 . In 1963 he graduated from the evening college in Berlin.

Helge Klassohn studied theology at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1963 to 1968 and then completed the vicariate in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde . A seminar stay in Wittenberg followed.

After the second theological exam, Klassohn was first a pastor in the auxiliary service in Schönfeld (Uckermark) , then from 1971 to 1975 assistant for practical theology at the University of Greifswald .

From 1975 to 1988, Klassohn was a pastor and part-time clinic pastor in Teupitz near Königs Wusterhausen , and also a district youth pastor for several years. In 1988 he went to Röddelin and Beutel ( Uckermark ) as a parish priest , in order to simultaneously take on the position of director of studies at the pastoral college in Templin .

In November 1994, Helge Klassohn was elected church president by the regional synod of the Evangelical Church in Anhalt, succeeding Dr. Eberhard Natho selected. In addition to this office, which is equivalent to the office of bishop in other regional churches , he took on a pastorate at the St. Georgen Church in Dessau .

On December 13, 2008, he was retired as church president in a service. His successor was Joachim Liebig .

Helge Klassohn is married to a dentist from Borgsdorf near Berlin.

Other activities / functions

During his tenure in Röddelin and Templin, Helge Klassohn was a member of the regional synod of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg , chairman of the synod's permanent theological committee and a member of the Stasi review committee.

In his office as church president he is chairman of the regional church council and the church leadership of the Anhalt regional church and thus spiritual director of the church.

From 1997 to its liquidation due to insolvency in 2004, Helge Klassohn was President of the Evangelical Main Biblical Society in the area of ​​the Evangelical Church of the Union (EKU), was Chairman of the Council of EKU from 1998 to 2000, and since 1996 Chairman of the Working Group of the Leading Spiritualists-East Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and since 1995 deputy chairman of the working committee of the EKD church conference.

In the summer of 2007, Klassohn succeeded Klaus Wollenweber as the representative of the EKD Council for questions relating to repatriates. He was active in this role until 2015.

Awards

In December 2018 he was awarded the plaque of honor of the Association of Expellees .

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 links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The former Anhalt Church President Helge Klassohn turns 75th EKD, April 24, 2019, accessed on August 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Marc-P. Halatsch: BdV Federal Assembly met in Berlin. Honor plaque to Helge Klassohn. Association of Displaced Persons, December 7, 2018, accessed on August 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Great son, Helge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Reichskommissariat Ostland