Walter Herrenbrück junior

Walter Herrenbrück (born April 18, 1939 in Leer , East Frisia ) is an Evangelical Reformed theologian and, as a state superintendent, was for many years the leading clergyman of the Evangelical Reformed Church based in Leer.

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Walter Herrenbrück, son of Walter Herrenbrück senior , who was also regional superintendent in Leer from 1951 to 1963, studied theology in Wuppertal (church university), Heidelberg , Bonn and Göttingen . He then completed his vicariate in Bunde near Leer.

In 1965 he took over a parish pastor in Uelsen in the county of Bentheim , which he provided for 12 years.

In 1978 he was offered a professorship at the seminary in Wuppertal - Elberfeld , of which he was director until 1987. In 1987 he was elected to succeed Gerhard Nordholt as the state superintendent , ie the leading clergyman, of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Northwest Germany , which merged in 1989 to form the Evangelical Reformed Church (Synod of Evangelical Churches in Bavaria and Northwest Germany) . Until 2004 he worked in this position for the united regional church. He handed over the office to Jann Schmidt , who continued it until 2013 under the newly created title of " Church President ". He spends his retirement in Nordhorn .

Walter Herrenbrück jun. was a member of the Central Committee of the Conference of European Churches (KEK) and a member of the board of the Working Group of Christian Churches (ACK). From 1994 to 2003 he was a member of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and was the representative of the EKD Council for military pastoral care and conscientious objection / community service . He was also a member of the Moderamens, the governing body of the Reformed Federation , which represents reformed interests in the EKD. Walter Herrenbrück was chairman of the Evangelical Working Group on Conscientious Objection and Peace from 2006 to 2012 and deputy chairman of the Association for Peace Work in the EKD area from 2010 to 2012.

We don't know what to pray , Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1973, ISBN 978-3-7887-0362-2 .

with Udo Smidt: Why are you called a Christian? Lectures and essays on the Heidelberg Catechism in the anniversary year 1963 , Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1965.
with Hilke Klüver: 125 years of the Evangelical Reformed Church , Evangelical Reformed Church, Leer 2007.

Michael Beintker (Ed.): Leading Us to Life. Preaching hope (Festschrift for Peter Bukowski ) , Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7887-2948-6 .

Thomas Krüger, Carola Wolf, Udo Hahn (eds.): Who is where in the Protestant Church? People and functions , Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-932194-29-2

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SURNAME	Herrenbrück, Walter junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Herrenbrück, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Evangelical Reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	April 18, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Empty