Stephan Reimers
Stephan Reimers (born January 30, 1944 in Seeth near Friedrichstadt ) is a Protestant theologian and German politician. From 1999 to 2009 he was the representative of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany for the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union and as such a prelate of the Evangelical Church in Germany .
Life
Reimers became politically active in the Junge Union early on . After studying Protestant theology , he was a university assistant at the University of Hamburg from 1971 to 1976 and received his doctorate with Klaus Koch with a dissertation on the "formal history of the prophetic vision reports" . At the same time he continued his political career in the CDU as a member of the Hamburg Parliament ( 1970–1978) and the German Bundestag (1976–1980).
After vicariate and ordination, he was director of the Evangelical Academy North Elbia from 1982 to 1992 and director of the Diakonisches Werk Hamburg from 1992 to 1999 and from 1998 to 1999 a member of the church leadership of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church . As head of the Diakonisches Werk Hamburg, he initiated the establishment of the street magazine Hinz & Kunzt , the Kirchenkaten , the Hamburger Tafel and the Hamburg Donation Parliament .
After arguments with the longstanding CDU state chairman Jürgen Echternach , Reimers left the CDU in 1993.
In 1999 Reimers became the authorized representative of the EKD Council for the Federal Republic of Germany and the EU as well as (Protestant) Chairman of the Joint Conference on Church and Development (GKKE), Chairman of the Evangelical Central Agency for Development Aid (EZE) and member of the Supervisory Board of the Evangelical Development Service (EED). Reimers is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Leo Baeck Foundation .
From 2002 to 2006 he was a member of the radio council of Deutschlandradios for the EKD .
On September 16, 2008 Reimers was elected chairman of the administrative board of the Hamburg city mission .
Reimers retired on January 31, 2009 for reasons of age. In June 2008, the EKD Council appointed the Berlin senior consistorial councilor and sports pastor Bernhard Felmberg as his successor .
Stephan Reimers has been a member of the executive committee of Deutsche Welthungerhilfe since 2009 .
In 2015, Stephan Reimers was elected Chairman of the Board of Action Reconciliation Services for Peace .
Honors
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Stephan Reimers in the catalog of the German National Library
- Pastor as manager , time online
- Rainer Jung: Church and State - An Insider Who Has to Be Silent ( Memento from February 3, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) DS, year 2000, issue 38, keyword "The man of the church"
- Greetings on the 60th birthday of Prelate Dr. Stephan Reimers on the website of the Evangelical Church Berlin – Brandenburg – Schlesische Oberlausitz, February 10, 2004
- EKD representative Stephan Reimers turns 60 on the EKD website, January 28, 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reimers, Stephan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian and politician (CDU), MdHB, MdB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seeth |