Niels Hasselmann

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Niels Nikolaus Hasselmann (born May 5, 1936 in Flensburg ) is a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian.

Hasselmann comes from a pastor's family ; his father Karl Hasselmann was provost in Flensburg and from 1962 provost of Südholstein in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schleswig-Holstein . His two brothers Friedrich-Franz and Karl-Behrnd also became pastors.

After studying theology, Niels Hasselmann was ordained on April 5, 1964 . He was pastor of the German St. Petri Church in Copenhagen and senior church councilor in the church office of the VELKD in Hanover , before he became the first regularly elected provost of the new church district Lübeck of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1979 as the successor to Karlheinz Stoll . He held this position until his retirement in 2001. At the same time he was chairman of the Lübeck telephone pastoral care and representative of the bishop for the Holstein-Lübeck district of the North Elbe Church. His successor was Ralf Meister .

In his practical theological dissertation from 1975, Hasselmann examined forms of preparation for sermons . Other works reflect his work as an ecumenical consultant for the VELKD.

He was married to the teacher and musician Brigitte Hasselman (1939–2017), who was a member of the church leadership of the North Elbian Church from 1998 to 2004 and a member of the EKD Synod from 1998 to 2008. The two have two children.

Fonts

  • with Johannes Dose: St. Petri 1575-1975. 400 years of the German Evangelical Lutheran St. Petri Congregation in Copenhagen. Copenhagen 1975
  • Sermon aids and preparation for sermons: exemplary method profiles of German-language evangelical sermon preparation aids since 1934 and a model of their hermeneutical and communicative basic factors including the resulting methodological categories. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus Mohn 1977 Zugl .: Bonn, Univ., Evang.-Theol. Fak., Diss., 1975, ISBN 3-579-04167-3
  • (Ed.): Church in the sign of unity: Texts and reflections on the question of the forms of church unity. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1979 ISBN 3-525-52162-6
  • North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church , in: Theologische Realenzyklopädie , Volume 24, pp. 612–616

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries , Lübecker Nachrichten of July 30, 2017, accessed on August 13, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Hasselmann, Niels
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hasselmann, Niels Nikolaus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg