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Mission EineWelt - Center for Partnership, Development and Mission of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
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legal form KdöR
founding 1849
founder Wilhelm Lohe
Seat Neuendettelsau , Germany
motto Because it moves us!
main emphasis Partnership, development and mission
Action space worldwide
people Hanns and Gabriele Hoerschelmann (directors)
Employees 200 employees at home and abroad
Website www.mission-einewelt.de

Mission EineWelt, Center for Partnership, Development and Mission of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria is a mission society of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria based in Neuendettelsau .

Mission EineWelt in Neuendettelsau

The corporation under public law also includes a conference center, the exhibition einBlick, the one-world shop, the Pacific information point and the Erlanger Verlag für Mission und Ökumene. It has its own library with over 15,000 volumes from the fields of missiology , religious studies , ethnology (Africa and the Pacific), which can be accessed via the Augustana University's online catalog .

History of Neuendettelsau missionary work

In 1846 Wilhelm Löhe founded a “preparatory institution” in Nuremberg, in which pastors were to be trained for their diaspora service in North America among the Franconian settlers living there. As early as 1842, as the then local pastor of Neuendettelsau, he sent the first two “emergency helpers” to the USA. On April 15, 1853, this institution was moved to Neuendettelsau. Its first director was Friedrich Bauer .

In 1849 the Society for Inner Mission was founded (today's Society for Inner and Outer Mission within the meaning of the Lutheran Church ). Missionaries were sent to Eastern Europe in 1852 , and to the emigrant communities in Australia in 1875 . In 1886 Johann Flierl began missionary work among the locals in Papua New Guinea (then Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land ). The mission seminary existed until 1985 and trained over 800 pastors and missionaries.

The Missionswerk Bayern was founded on April 1st, 1972. It took over the mission work of the Society for Inner and Outer Mission in Papua New Guinea and the mission work of the Leipzig Mission and Berlin Mission in Tanzania . In addition, partnerships with the Lutheran churches have also been established in other countries.

In 1995 the Missionswerk became the sponsor of the traditional publishing house of Ev.-Luth. Mission Erlangen (since 1998: Erlanger Verlag für Mission und Ökumene ), which is considered the most important evangelical mission publisher in Germany.

On January 1, 2007, the three previous work areas of the Church Development Service (today: Department Development and Politics), Latin America Commissioner (today: Department Latin America) and Missionswerk Bayern (today: Department Partnership and Congregation , Mission Intercultural and other country departments) were merged under the Name Mission EineWelt .

ladder

  • 1846–1874: Friedrich Bauer (1812–1874), mission inspector
  • 1875–1897: Johannes Deinzer (1842–1897), mission inspector
  • 1897–1917: Martin Deinzer (1850–1917), mission inspector, from 1912 mission director
  • 1920–1928: Rudolf Ruf (1868–1950), mission director
  • 1928–1946: Friedrich Eppelein (1887–1969), mission director
  • 1946–1950: Woldemar Schilberg (1911–1973), Mission Director
  • 1950–1961: Hans Neumeyer (born 1902), mission director
  • 1962–1964: Hagen Katterfeld (1916–1964), mission director
  • 1964–1972: Wolfram von Krause (1914–1989), mission director
  • 1972–1991: Horst Becker, director of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission. Church in Bavaria (* 1926)
  • 1992–2007: Hermann Vorländer, director
  • 2008–2015: Peter Weigand (* 1949), director
  • since 2015: Hanns and Gabriele Hoerschelmann

    • Friedrich Bauer

    • Johannes Deinzer

    • Martin Deinzer

    literature

    • Wilhelm Koller: The mission establishment in Neuendettelsau (Neuendettelsauer Missionsschriften. 7th), Neuendettelsau 1924. 159 pp.
    • Georg Pilhofer: History of the Neuendettelsau Mission House , Neuendettelsau 1967. 62 pp.

    Web links

    Commons : Mission EineWelt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ After 100 years, the Mission is sending theologians to Australia again , Idea , article from August 22, 2017.
    2. ^ "Mission EineWelt" will be the new partnership center ( memento from August 26, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ), epv.de, article from November 30, 2006.

    Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 16 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 13 ″  E