Martin Vetter

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Martin Vetter (born March 8, 1964 in Gummersbach ) is a German Protestant theologian and since 2016 chief pastor of St. Nikolai in Hamburg and provost in the church district of Hamburg-Ost .

biography

St. Nikolai in Hamburg-Harvestehude

Vetter studied Protestant theology at the Wuppertal / Bethel Church University , the University of Tübingen and the University of Munich . He completed an additional course in adult education in Berlin. After the second theological exam, he was pastor in the auxiliary service at the church college in Wuppertal as assistant to Rainer Röhricht. Vetter was with an interdisciplinary sign term in the sacramental theology, published in 1999 under the title signs point to God , at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main Dr. theol. PhD. He then worked as a research assistant at the chair of systematic theology with Christof Gestrich at the Humboldt University in Berlin and since 2001 director of studies at the Evangelical City Academy in Düsseldorf. From 2007 to 2016 he was rector of the pastoral college of the later Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany at Ratzeburg Cathedral . From 2012 to 2016 he was a member of the Theological Chamber of the Northern Church, since 2015 its chairman.

He is married to the theologian Christine Gerber , Professor of the New Testament at the University of Hamburg , and has three children.

Publications

  • Signs point to God. Charles S. Peirce's contribution to the theory of signs on the theology of the sacraments (= Marburg theological studies, vol. 52). Marburg 1999
  • Achim Leschinsky , Martin Vetter (ed.): How much religion does school need? Publications of the Evangelical Academy Berlin (Berlin Encounters 2), Tübingen 2000
  • Uta Pohl-Patalong , Martin Vetter: The parish profession - impulses from a survey (= Practical Theology 48, Issue 3), Gütersloh 2013
  • Claudia Tietz, Martin Vetter (Ed.): Special issue "Church Pictures" (= Evangelical Voices, Issue 1/2015)
  • Numerous contributions to pastoral and religious education as well as to the sermon among others in the sermon studies and the evangelical voices

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predecessor Office successor
Johann Hinrich Claussen Senior Pastor at St. Nikolai
2016 -
personal data
SURNAME Cousin, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Gummersbach