Karlheinz Stoll (theologian)

Karlheinz Stoll's grave in the Burgtorfriedhof in Lübeck

Karlheinz Stoll (born June 12, 1927 in Dörfel , † January 25, 1992 in Lübeck ) was a German Protestant theologian, pastor and bishop .

In 1957 Stoll became a pastor in Lübeck. Senior since 1970 and thus deputy bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck , when Bishop Heinrich Meyer retired in 1972 , he took over his church leadership tasks in Lübeck, since no separate Lübeck bishops will be elected due to the upcoming formation of the North Elbe Evangelical Lutheran Church should. In 1977, when the North Elbe Church was founded, he became the first provost of the Lübeck parish , which is congruent with the area of ​​the former Lübeck regional church.

From 1979 until his health-related resignation in 1990, Stoll was Bishop of the Schleswig District of the North Elbian Church and from 1981 to 1990 Senior Bishop of the VELKD .

His son is the oral and maxillofacial surgeon , chief physician and university professor Christian Stoll (* 1960).

literature

• Klaus Blaschke et al. (Ed.): Mission on the doorstep of the Volkskirche. Bishop D. Karlheinz Stoll on his 60th birthday (= Nordelbischer Konvent 24, ZDB -ID 848682-7 ). Lutherische Verlagsgesellschaft, Kiel 1987.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karlheinz Stoll in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich Meyer	Bishop, representing the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck 1972 - 1977	Friedrich Hübner ( as bishop of the Holstein-Lübeck district of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church )
Alfred Petersen	Bishop of the Schleswig district of the North Elbe Evangelical Lutheran Church 1979 - 1990	Hans-Christian Knuth