Martin Luther Bund

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Martin Luther Bund e. V.
purpose Support for Lutheran diaspora communities
Chair: Michael Hübner ( General Secretary )
Establishment date: 1932
Seat : gain
Website: www.martin-luther-bund.de

The Martin Luther Bund is the Diaspora work of VELKD and went in 1932 from the merger of regional treasury teams out, the first in 1853 by Ludwig Adolf Petri , Rudolf Steinmetz and Friedrich Münchmeyer in Hanover was founded. It is the task of the federal government to provide financial and spiritual assistance to Lutheran churches and congregations in the diaspora and to promote theological exchange with these churches.

history

The roots of the covenant lie in supporting Lutheran (German) emigrants of the 19th century who moved to areas where the Lutheran church was not organized. South Brazil , an important destination for German emigration from 1824 onwards, has been the focus since then, as has the churches and congregations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, with which the federal government maintained close contacts even in the period before the collapse of the Soviet Union , thereby strengthening the rights of this religious minority Has.

organization

In Germany, the Martin Luther Association consists of 12 branch associations and a working group: Baden, Bavaria, Braunschweig, Hamburg, Hanover, Lippe, Lübeck-Lauenburg, Oldenburg, Saxony, Schaumburg-Lippe, Schleswig-Holstein and Württemberg; the three branches in the north church : Hamburg, Lübeck-Lauenburg and Schleswig-Holstein form a working group Martin-Luther-Bund in the Evangelical Lutheran. Church in Northern Germany . The Federal Assembly meets annually.

The central office of the federal government is based in Erlangen , and Michael Hübner has been the successor to Rainer Stahl as Secretary General since 2016. President from 2008 to February 2015 was the Oberkirchenrat and Regensburg regional bishop Hans-Martin Weiss , who replaced his long-term predecessor, Oberkirchenrat Claus-Jürgen Roepke . Rudolf Keller held the office from March 2015 to December 2016. In January 2017 he was followed by the then regional bishop of Saxony, Carsten Rentzing .

Martin Luther associations have been formed outside of Germany in Austria , Switzerland and Liechtenstein , the Netherlands , France , Hungary , the Czech Republic , Slovakia , South Africa , Namibia , Brazil and Chile .

The association coordinates its work closely with the Gustav-Adolf-Werk of the EKD .

Publications

  • Lutheran Church in the World: Yearbook of the Martin Luther Federation 17.1970 (1969) ff. (Predecessor: Yearbook of the Martin Luther Bund 1.1946-16.1969 (1968))
  • Lutheran Service 1.1965ff. (quarterly)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lutheran God's Chest
  2. ↑ Walter Caspari : The historical basis of the present Protestant community life, shown in outline from the sources, 1908, p. 275
  3. ↑ According to Lutheran Church in the World. Yearbook of the Martin-Luther-Bund 65 (2018) ISBN 978-3-87513-194-9 , pp. 216-219
  4. ↑ Dr. Hans-Martin Weiss resigns as President of the Martin-Luther-Bund , martin-luther-bund.de, news from February 18, 2015.
  5. ↑ Martin Luther Bund with a new President , idea.de, report from November 21, 2016.

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