Johannes Launhardt

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Johannes Launhardt (born September 8, 1929 in Birnbaum ; † July 31, 2019 ) was a German theologian . He was bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Georgia from 2006 to 2009 .

Career

As a child he was expelled from Birnbaum with his family, he graduated from high school in Lübeck in 1948. He studied Protestant theology in Bethel , Hermannsburg , Birmingham and Hamburg.

He worked in Addis Ababa for 27 years, among other things as a pastor of the German-speaking parish in Addis Ababa , as well as a Bible school teacher and headmaster in various institutions in Ethiopia and as theological teacher and financial administrator of the Ethiopian Evangelical Mekane Yesus Church . He was already retired and then became an honorary pastor in Bashkiria , then provost of the ELCRAS of Moscow and Central Russia. On November 14, 2006 he was elected Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Georgia . His successor as bishop in Georgia was Heinrich Scheffer for a few months, then Hans-Joachim Kiderlen .

Launhardt married Christa Tuttas in 1956 and they had three daughters.

Awards

  • 1975 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for social commitment in Ethiopia, for a street children project
  • 1991 the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class, for engagement in hunger relief and for political prisoners.
  • 2014 culture award for deserving employees and cultural workers from the Weichsel-Warthe area of ​​the Weichsel-Warthe country team.

Works

  • Guide to learning the Oromo (Galla) language , Addis Ababa, Central Print. Press, 1973
  • Ato Emmanuel Abraham. Christ witness in Ethiopia. (Erlangen Hefte from Weltmission), Verlag der Ev.-Lutherischen Mission, 1980
  • The drums no longer frighten us. Suburban community in Addis Ababa, 1982
  • Sowing during drought. Ethiopia: famine. Accountability / challenge from Johannes Launhardt von Erlangen: Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission, 1988
  • Evangelicals in Addis Ababa (1919-1991), with Special Reference to the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus and the Addis Ababa Synod; Studies on Oriental Church History . Lit Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7791-4 , plus dissertation at the University of Hamburg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The new Bishop of Georgia, Rev. Dr. Launhardt, introduces yourself . In: Evangelical Lutheran Church in Georgia (ed.): Building Bridges, Church and Diakonie in Georgia . February 2007 ( ev-luth-kirche-georgien.de [PDF]).
  2. ^ Heimatkreis Meseritz eV Accessed on June 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Launhardt, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Georgia
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH pear tree
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 2019