Horst Hirschler

Horst Hirschler (2006)

Horst Hirschler (born September 4, 1933 in Stuttgart ) is a Lutheran theologian . He is the retired bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover and abbot of the Loccum monastery .

Life

From 1951 to 1954 Horst Hirschler did an apprenticeship as a heavy current / industrial electrician at Bosch in Hildesheim . During the last year of his apprenticeship and first year as a journeyman, he attended evening grammar school, where he passed his Abitur in 1955.

From 1955 to 1959, Hirschler studied theology at the Bethel Church University and at the Universities of Tübingen , Heidelberg and Göttingen . During his studies he was temporarily entrusted with looking after young refugees from the Soviet occupation zone in the Sandbostel camp . He completed his vicariate in Syke and attended the St. Michaelis seminary in Hildesheim.

From 1962 to 1965, Hirschler was a school pastor for the Hanoverian regional church in the regional youth parish of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover and at the same time regional administrator of the Evangelical Young Society BK (school Bible circles) in Lower Saxony. Then he was parish priest for five years, first in Lüneburg , then in Deutsch Evern .

In 1970 he was appointed Conventual Director of Studies of the Loccum Monastery Seminary . In 1977 he was appointed state superintendent for the Göttingen district . From 1988 to 1999 he took over the office of regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover until he retired.

Other offices and activities

from 1970: member of the convent of the Loccum monastery , since 1994 prior , since 2000: abbot of the Loccum monastery
in the 1970s and 1980s spokesman for the ARD program Das Wort zum Sonntag
1971-1977; since 2000: Member of the Hanover regional synod , since 2000 born member through the office of abbot of the Loccum monastery
1974–1988: Member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)
1977–1999: Born member of the bishops' council of the ev-luth. Regional Church of Hanover (chairman from 1988)
1988–1999: Chair of the church senate of the ev-luth. Regional Church of Hanover and Chairman of the Regional Church Office of Hanover .
1991–1997: Member of the EKD Council
1991–1997: Vice President of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF)
1993–1999: Senior Bishop of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany (VELKD)

Honors

In 1992 he received an honorary doctorate from the Church of Leipzig University and is also an honorary senator of the University of Göttingen. In 2009 Horst Hirschler was awarded the Preaching Prize of the Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft (Bonn) for his life's work . 2004 Lower Saxony State Medal and Grand Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit

Publications

Preaching Specifically , 1977
Stories from Loccum Monastery , 1980 (co-author)
Luther is way ahead of us , 1996
Preaching Biblically , 1998
It probably shone in the middle of the night , 1999
In the Light of the Gospel , 2004
A funny, beautiful room ... The Loccum monastery library in the past and present: manuscripts, relics and preaching aids , 2008 (co-author)
Loccum Monastery. Published jointly with Ludolf Ulrich. Lutheran Publishing House, Hanover 2012
Editor of the series of articles "Templates" in connection with Gerhard Isermann, Hans May and Hans Joachim Schliep: e.g. Axel Freiherr von Campenhausen: State and Church under the Basic Law, An Orientation "Templates. New Series 22". Lutherisches Verlagshaus ISBN 3-7859-0685- 4th

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ See speakers since 1954 , accessed on June 28, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Hirschler, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Protestant theologian and bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH	September 4, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart

[1] See speakers since 1954 , accessed on June 28, 2019.