Martin Schindehütte

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Martin Schindehütte (2009)

Martin Schindehütte (born November 7, 1949 in Kassel ) is a Protestant theologian and pastor. Schindehütte was spiritual vice-president of the regional church office of the Evangelical-Lutheran regional church of Hanover , vice-president of the church office of the EKD and foreign bishop of the Evangelical Church in Germany. He also headed the church office of the Union of Evangelical Churches (UEK).

Life

Martin Schindehütte grew up in the rural area of ​​Northern Hesse.

After studying Protestant theology and social education from 1967 to 1974 in Wuppertal , Göttingen and Hamburg , he became parish priest in the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck in 1975 . From 1987 to 1991 he worked as a director of studies for pedagogy, information society and ecumenism at the Evangelical Academy Hofgeismar . From 1992 to 1994 he was senior church councilor in the EKD church office for asylum and refugee work, the integration of foreign workers and for the conciliar process for justice, peace and the integrity of creation. In 1995 he returned to Hofgeismar , where he headed the Evangelical Altenhilfe Gesundbrunnen until 2002. In 2002 he moved to the regional church office of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover as clergyman vice-president . He held this office until 2006, when he returned to the EKD church office and took over the management of the main department “Ecumenism and work abroad”. The office of foreign bishop of the EKD and the head of the office of the UEK is connected to the office of the main department head. Through the office he was also head of the ecumenical division and the ecumenical relations unit. In late summer 2010 he was traded as a possible successor candidate for Margot Käßmann in the office of regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover , but was eliminated in the penultimate selection round.

Schindehütte retired in December 2013. The vice-president of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , Petra Bosse-Huber , was appointed to succeed him as Bishop Abroad .

Martin Schindehütte is married and has three children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uek-online.de
  2. ↑ Michael B. Berger: Two men want to inherit Käßmann , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of September 16, 2010, p. 5
  3. ↑ EKD press release on the appointment of Petra Bosse-Huber as bishop abroad
personal data
SURNAME Schindehütte, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian, bishop abroad, Vice-President of the Church Office of the EKD
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel