Rudolf Herrfahrdt

Rudolf Herrfahrdt (born November 1, 1907 in Insterburg ; † October 5, 2005 in Garbsen ) was a German Lutheran theologian, author and most recently director of the Office for Community Service in Hanover.

Life

Herrfahrdt studied Protestant theology and was ordained on March 31, 1935. In the same year he took up his first pastor in Wilhelmsburg-Reiherstieg. In 1936 he became pastor in Hohenbostel , and in 1950 superintendent of the Osterode / Harz church district. In 1965 he was appointed director of the Office for Community Service of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover . On April 16, 1975, he retired.

Publications

• 60 years of "Church Today". From the history of the monthly newspaper for ev.-luth. Parishes (Stolzenau / Weser around 1985)
• Our way. From eighty years of Protestant student work in Lower Saxony in the Federation of German Biblical Groups (BK) (Hanover 1983)
• The Office for Community Service in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover (Hanover after 1965)
• From the history of the parish Hohenbostel am Deister (Barsinghausen 1955)
• The parish of Harriehausen. A historical report from the early days to the present (Osterode 1954)
• D. Martin Luther and the renewal of the church today (Hanover around 1936)
• Church signpost (Hanover, no year)

literature

• Ecclesiastical gazette for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover 12/2005, p. 287