Peter Ulrich (theologian)

Peter A. Ulrich (born July 12, 1953 in Bremen ) is a German Protestant theologian and cathedral preacher at the Bremen Cathedral as well as non-fiction author .

biography

Ulrich is the only son of the businessman Günter Ulrich and his wife Annemarie Ulrich, b. Wrissenberg. He attended elementary school on Baumschulenweg in Bremen from 1960 to 1964 and there from 1964 to 1972 high school on Hermann-Böse-Straße . After a semester of law at the University of Tübingen and completing his basic military service in the German Navy , he studied Protestant theology from 1974 to 1979 at the Church of Wuppertal and at the University of Göttingen .
As Repetent the Evangelical Church in Bremen at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Göttingen he started in 1979 under the direction of Professor Rudolf Smend (Old Testament) his theological dissertation on Hermann Schultz 'Old Testament Theology' in the context of his life and work , with which he 1989 Göttingen received his doctorate .

Ulrich completed his vicariate at the United Protestant Congregation of the Mayor Smidt Memorial Church in Bremerhaven from 1983 to 1985 , where he was elected assistant preacher in 1985 and pastor in 1986.
In 1992 he moved to the Evangelical Lutheran St. Petri Cathedral Church in Bremen . In addition to parish work - youth and adult work / educational work: lectures and seminars - his focus here is on the history of the cathedral, the history of the church in Bremen and the history of people in Bremen.

He has been married to Juliane Ulrich, b. Trummler, and has a daughter.

Memberships / honorary positions

• Protestant Working Group for Cultural Issues, Bremen, Chairman (since 1994)
• Die Maus , Society for Family Research, Bremen, Chairman (1994–2005), Honorary Chairman (since 2005)
• Association for Church History in Bremen, Deputy Chairman
• Historical Society Bremen , member of the board
• Order of St. John from the Hospital in Jerusalem , legal knight
• Rotary Club Bremen-Roland
• Association of Teacher Friends from 1823, Bremen
• Von Post grant, Bremen
• Association for Charity, Bremen
• Association for Inner Mission , Bremen

Fonts (selection)

• Hermann Schultz '"Old Testament Theology" in the context of his life and work , dissertation. Goettingen 1989.
• Ed. With Detlev G. Gross : Bremen houses tell history , 1st volume. Döll Edition , Bremen 1998, ISBN 3-88808-245-5 .
• Ed. With Detlev G. Gross: Bremen houses tell history , 2nd volume. Döll Edition, Bremen 2001, ISBN 3-936289-31-X .
• Departure from the Weser. The biography of the sailing ship captain Johann Gerhard Lange (1810–1881) , HM Hauschild, Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89757-385-7 .
• The cathedral preacher Oscar Mauritz (1867–1958) - "Religion is a celebration of the soul" . In: Detlev G. Gross (ed.), Pastoren in Bremen, Bremen 2007 (Volume 2 of the series of the Bremer Dom eV Foundation), pp. 92-109
• Adoration of the Virgin Mary in the St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen. In: Hospitium Ecclesiae. Research on Bremen Church History Volume 24, Bremen 2009, pp. 151–166.
• “Because in Hartwich we had one of the most productive pastors in Bremen.” - The cathedral preacher Otto Hartwich (1861–1948) . In: Lars U. Scholl (ed.), Regional Origin and National Significance, Yearbook of Wittheit zu Bremen 2010/2011, Hauschild Verlag , Bremen, pp. 212–230.
• "Our old house". The young Rudolf Alexander Schröder in Bremen . In: Hans-Albrecht Koch (ed.), Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878–1962), (Contributions to the history of text, transmission and education. Ed. By Hans-Albrecht Koch. Volume 4, 2013), pp. 33–70 .
• “Everything I did had one goal: to be a full National Socialist in the church .” On the biography of Bremen's “regional bishop” Heinz Weidemann (1895–1976) . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Volume 93 (2014), pp. 157–186.

literature

• 25 years at the cathedral! Pastor Dr. Peter Ulrich celebrates anniversary . In: Domnachrichten November 2017 – January 2018, No. 4, p. 7