Klaus Wollenweber

Klaus Wollenweber (born May 5, 1939 in Krefeld ) was Bishop of the Evangelical Church of Silesian Upper Lusatia from May 1, 1995 to May 31, 2004 .

After studying theology from 1959 to 1964 in Heidelberg , Berlin and Bonn , Klaus Wollenweber was ordained in 1967 .

Until 1988 he was pastor of the Bonn Kreuzkirche parish . He was also head of the Berlin Bible Weeks and the Pastors' Study Conventions of the Evangelical Church of the Union ( EKU ) in Berlin. From 1988 to 1995 he was senior theological councilor in the EKU church chancellery in Berlin. In 1995 he was elected bishop by the Synod of the Evangelical Church of Silesian Upper Lusatia and on May 1, 1995, he was introduced to the office of bishop in the St. Peter's Church in Görlitz by the then President of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , Peter Beier .

In 1997 he was instrumental in the conclusion of a partnership agreement between the Evangelical Church of Silesian Upper Lusatia and the Wroclaw Diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , the first partnership agreement of this kind. From November 2000 he was the representative of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) for repatriates and questions from the displaced.

Wollenweber is married to a teacher and has five children. He lives in retirement in Bonn. On June 2, 2012, he spoke the greeting of the Protestant Church at the opening of the Namen-Jesu-Kirche as a bishopric and diocese church of the Old Catholic Church in Germany , and gave Bishop Matthias Ring a Bible as a gift.

Web links

• Press release of the EKD on the farewell from the service
• Sermon by Klaus Wollenweber in the Christ Church in Königswinter 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ebba Hagenberg-Miliu: The “spiritual inn” is open. In: General-Anzeiger. June 4, 2012, accessed on June 25, 2012 (article in the Bonner General-Anzeiger ). 

predecessor	Office	successor
Joachim Rogge	Bishop of the Ev. Church of the Silesian Upper Lusatia 1995-2004	---