Senator for Religious Affairs
The Senator for Religious Community Affairs is the liaison between the Bremen Senate and the religious communities in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Until 2015, the name was Senator for Church Affairs .
prehistory
As a result of the Reformation of 1522, the council became the summus episcopus of the Bremen Evangelical Church . In many Protestant states in Europe ministries for church affairs gradually emerged.
When church and state were separated with the Weimar Constitution , it was not until 1920 that the separation was also implemented in the governments of the German states. Until 1920 the Senate Commission for Church Affairs exercised the right of summus episcopus. In 1912, for example, it consisted of the mayor Karl FH Stadtländer , Senator Georg Oelrichs as chairman and Senator Theodor Spitta . In the Constitution of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1920 it says under IV. Churches and religious societies : "§ 87. The churches and religious societies are separated from the state."
"The decisive head in the redesign of the Bremen Constitution" from 1920 was the Justice Senator Theodor Spitta. Since he also played a decisive role “in the redesign of the” now separated from the state “Bremen Evangelical Church”, he made sure that the separation was not too serious. From January 1930, Spitta worked as Senate Commissioner for Church Affairs . In 1933 Senator Richard von Hoff held this office. He was the commissioner for church affairs as well as the commissioner for the church parish schools . In the Senator's department for education there was an authority for arts and science and church affairs . And even in the first Senate led by the NSDAP Mayor Richard Markert , Senator Richard von Hoff continued to hold the offices of Commissioner for Church Affairs and Commissioner for Church Community Schools.
The office since 1946
Since Theodor Spitta, the father of the Bremen Constitution of 1920, was appointed Senator for Justice and the (Bremen) Constitution and Second Mayor of the American Military Government in 1946, "his main task was to lead the negotiations on the new constitution of 1947 ". In it he ensured continuity with the senator created in 1946 for justice, constitution and church affairs . Spitta initially filled this position himself. In the 1st and 2nd electoral periods of the Bremen citizenship from 1946 to 1951, he was Senator for Justice, Constitution and Church Affairs . From the 3rd electoral term from 1951 to 1955, the two offices were separated and Theodor Spitta was named as Senator for Justice, the Constitution and Senator for Church Affairs in the 3rd electoral term . As before, the official seat was the Bremen Town Hall . The following were named as contact persons: the Bremen Evangelical Church, the Catholic Community of Bremen and the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde.
That remained with the successors in the Justice Department, the Senators Erich Zander , 4th electoral term 1955–1959, Ulrich Graf , 5th electoral term 1959–1963, 6th electoral term 1963–1967. In the 7th electoral term he held the office of Church Senator , as it was called colloquially in Bremen, until June 1, 1971. At that time, the FDP senators resigned three months before the election. Their offices were temporarily taken over by SPD senators. The Senator for Education, Moritz Thape , became Senator for Church Affairs on June 2, 1971.
In the 8th electoral term from 1971 to 1975 and the 9th electoral term from 1975 to 1979, the office remained slimmed down to a department at the Senator for Education because, as Mayor Hans Koschnick recalled, it was mainly about questions of church schools.
Since the contact between the Senator for Education and the churches was inadequate, Mayor Hans Koschnick took over the office of Church Senator in 1979 as an independent department and relocated it to the Bremen Town Hall. From Koschnick it was passed on to the presidents of the Senate and Mayors: Klaus Wedemeier 1985, Henning Scherf 1995 and Jens Böhrnsen 2005.
New name
In 2012, the area of church affairs was expanded to include political philosophy and projects , so that connections not only with the Christian churches and the Jewish community, but also with Islam and other religious communities in Bremen are maintained. In addition, there is the organization of smaller and larger projects, such as the Night of Youth , the city map of religions by young people for young people and the network for shaping the future and mental health . In 2015, when Carsten Sieling took office as President of the Senate, the company was renamed Senator for Religious Affairs .
Web links
- Church affairs, political philosophy, projects on the website of the city of Bremen
- The Senator for Religious Affairs Division of business in the Senate
Individual evidence
- ↑ State calendar of the free Hanseatic city of Bremen for 1912, Bremen 1912
- ↑ verfassungen.de
- ↑ a b Herbert Schwarzwälder : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- ^ State Handbook of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Bremen 1930
- ^ Official notices for the Bremen authorities of March 27 and October 17, 1933
- ^ Official notices for the Bremen authorities of October 17, 1933
- ↑ Official notices for the Bremen authorities dated June 30, 1933
- ↑ Handbooks of the Bremen Citizenship - 1st to 3rd electoral period from 1946 to 1955
- ↑ Handbooks of the Bremen Citizenship 4th to 6th electoral period 1955–1967
- ^ Norbert Korfmacher: Directory of Members of the Bremen Citizenship 1946 to 1996 (= local politics. Volume 1). LIT, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3212-0 .
- ↑ Handbooks of the Bremen Citizenship, 8th and 9th electoral period 1971–1979
- ↑ Handbooks of the Bremen Citizenship, 10th to 17th electoral period 1979–1987