Werner Schröder (theologian)

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Werner Schröder after an iron wedding in Strackholt (2016)

Werner Schröder (born September 15, 1924 in Nordleda ; † October 13, 2019 in Aurich ) was a Protestant theologian.

Life

Schröder's parents were the master carpenter Wilhelm Schröder and his wife Martha geb. Rieper. At the age of 18, Schröder joined the Army (Wehrmacht) in 1942 . As a junior non-commissioned officer , he was seriously wounded in France in July 1944. He received the Iron Cross II. Class and the Wound Badge . In the post-war period in Germany , he studied Protestant theology at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen . There he became active in Corps Misnia IV and Corps Lusatia Leipzig in 1949 . In 1950 he moved to the Eberhard Karls University . In Lusatia's Cartel Corps Rhenania Tübingen he was initially an MC . He was reciprocated on February 24, 1951 . On November 5, 1951 inactivated , he finished his studies at the Georg-August University of Goettingen . In 1953 he passed the first theological state examination there. He was vicar at the German Seemannsmission and accompanied sea trips as a ship pastor while he was still retired. After he had passed the second state examination in Hanover in 1956, he was pastor in Lilienthal near Bremen until 1965 . He then worked for eleven years as superintendent of the church district Wesermünde-Süd in Loxstedt . In 1976 he was appointed state superintendent . From 1976 to 1988 he was regional superintendent of the Ostfriesland-Ems district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover . Since then he has lived in Aurich with his wife .

In addition to his theological and diaconal work, Schröder was involved, among other things, in the chairmanship of the East Frisian Bible Society , the Evangelical Village Helpers in Lower Saxony and as chairman of the Wichernstift social welfare organization in Ganderkesee . The German Bible Society awarded him the Canstein Medal in 1989.

Web links

Commons : Werner Schröder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release of the Hanoverian regional church, October 14, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Werner Schroeder (xx) , in: Rainer Assmann , Ernst Napp and Ingo Nordmeyer: Die Tübinger Rhenanen (corps list and corps history), 5th edition 2002, p. 235
  3. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 100/82; 87/1103; 133/1097
  4. ^ Church district Wesermünde
  5. ↑ a b State Superintendent Werner Schröder will be 85 years old on September 15 (EVLKA 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH North Leda
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2019
Place of death Aurich