List of superintendents and general superintendents in Hildburghausen

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This list records the people who since the Reformation in Hildburghausen as superintendent and superintendent-general held office.

introduction

In the city ​​of Hildburghausen, which belongs to the Ernestine Electorate of Saxony , the Reformation was carried out as early as the 1520s . In the course of the sovereign church regiment , superintendents were appointed to oversee the church and school system at the regional level. Hildburghausen was initially under the superintendent of Eisfeld . It was not until 1646, when it belonged to the Principality of Saxony-Coburg , that Hildburghausen and the surrounding area had its own superintendent's office. The office was connected to the parish at the Laurentiuskirche (or the Christ Church, which replaced it as the Protestant town church from 1785 ). The supervisory area was called the diocese or ephoria; It was not until the 20th century that the name church district became established.

After Hildburghausen had become the residential city of the Duchy of Saxony-Hildburghausen in 1684 , the superintendents became general superintendents, as they now also oversaw the other superintendents in the duchy. With the incorporation of the Duchy into the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen in 1826, they were again downgraded to superintendents. The first joint general superintendent of the united duchy, Ludwig Nonne , also resided in Hildburghausen, which was also the seat of the state consistory from 1829 to 1848.

When the Thuringian Evangelical Church was founded after the First World War, Hildburghausen remained the seat of a church district . The office of superintendent (or senior pastor between 1920 and 1944) was no longer necessarily linked to the parish office of the town church. In 1996 the Hildburghausen parish was merged with the Eisfeld parish to form the Hildburghausen-Eisfeld parish (initially Eisfeld-Hildburghausen parish), which continues to have its seat in Hildburghausen. Since 2009 he has been part of the Meiningen-Suhl provost of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

Superintendent

  • 1646: Melchior Weigler (approx. 1589–1646; pastor at the Laurentiuskirche from 1633)
  • 1647–1667: Johannes Elfflein (1605–1667)
  • 1668–1677: Johann Sebastian Güth (1628–1677)
  • 1678–1691: Johann Reinhard (1645–1691)
  • 1691–1697: Johann Valentin Kleinschmidt (1643–1697)
  • 1698–1711: Johann Heinrich Thamer (1639–1719)

General superintendent

Superintendent

  • 1831–1844: Friedrich Gendner , second pastor at the Laurentiuskirche and superintendent of the rural diocese (1788–1862)
  • 1844–1858: Carl Gottlieb Hermann (1793–1858)
  • 1858–1876: Ernst Balthasar Wölfing (1806–1876)
  • 1877–1885: Friedrich Geldner († 1890)
  • 1885–1901: Albert Sauerteig
  • 1901–1920: Rudolf Armin Human (1843–1923)
  • 1920–1928: Karl Michael (1867–1938)
  • 1928–1945: Otto Hoffmann (1881–1941)
  • 1946– ?: Ernst Köhler (1899–1970)
  • 1950–1969: Rudolf Karl Ludwig Schumann
  • 1970–1984: Hans-Dietrich Bettmann
  • 1985–2005: Hanspeter Wulff-Woesten
  • 2005–2013: Michael Kühne
  • since 2014: EF Johannes Haak

literature

  • Thuringian Pastors' Book Vol. 7: Saxony-Meiningen. Edited by the Society for Thuringian Church History. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2017 ( pdf ), p. 51.

Web links

Clergy on the website www.dunkelgraefinhbn.de ( official lists )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GND
  2. ↑ CERL Thesaurus
  3. ↑ Short biography on the website www.schildburghausen.de.
  4. ↑ GND
  5. ↑ CERL Thesaurus .
  6. ↑ GND .
  7. ↑ [1] ; Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General scholarly lexicon Vol. 2, Sp. 543.
  8. ↑ GND ¸ Short biography on the Francke Foundations website.
  9. ^ German biography .
  10. ^ German biography .
  11. ^ Congress of Vienna up to the establishment of an empire on the website www.dunkelgraefinhbn.de.
  12. ^ Congress of Vienna up to the establishment of an empire on the website www.dunkelgraefinhbn.de.
  13. ↑ Short biography of his son Max Wölfing on the website www.schildburghausen.de.
  14. ↑ Short biography on the website www.schildburghausen.de.
  15. ↑ Johannes Ziegner: The senior pastors of the church districts in the Thuringian Protestant Church 1919–1933. Diploma thesis at Martin Luther University Halle, 1980 ( PDF file ), p. 62.
  16. ↑ Johannes Ziegner: The senior pastors of the church districts in the Thuringian Protestant Church 1919–1933. Diploma thesis at Martin Luther University Halle, 1980 ( PDF file ), p. 52.
  17. ↑ Named as superintendent in the occupation and occupation zone on the website www.dunkelgraefinhbn.de . He does not appear in the official lists, only from 1930–1949 as a pastor in Hildburghausen ‐ Wallrabs (Friedrich Meinhof: Thuringian Pastors' Book Volume 10: Thuringian Evangelical Church 1921–1948 and Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia 1948–2008. Draft. Heilbad Heiligenstadt 2015, P. 100). For the person cf. also Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-55761-7 , p. 141.