Hans Joachim Schliep

Hans Joachim Schliep (born 22 March 1945, in

Schliep finished junior high school in 1961 and started an apprenticeship at the Seebeck Shipyard in Bremerhaven as an industrial clerk and worked there until 1965. In 1969 he attended the Jung-Stilling-College in Espelkamp (Ecclesiastical Institute for the attainment of higher education) for his high school diploma and finished a study of Protestant theology, philosophy and in social sciences. In 1974 Schliep gained a first theology degree at the Ruhr University Bochum and served subsequently as vicar for the Evangelical Church of Westphalia at the Stiepel Village Church in Stiepel, Bochum, Westphalia.

Career

Schliep was ordained in October 1976 and was pastor at the

On 1 March 1990 Schliep was appointed director of the Amt für Gemeindedienst (Office of Community Service) and commissioner for the environment (until 31 May 2000) of the Church of Hanover and the Confederation of Protestant Churches in Lower Saxony. From 1991 he was the coordinator and manager of the Church of Hanover Help for Chernobyl Children (since 1994: AG Hilfe für Tschernobylkinder). During this time he was the first and only Commissioner for Aviation for the Church of hannover. From 1994 to 1999 Schliep was in personal union director of the Amt für Gemeindedienst, department head at the Hanover Regional Church Office and an extraordinary member in the college of the Regional Church Office (German: Ausserordentliches Mitglied im -Kollegium- des Landeskirchenamtes Hannover).

Schliep left his leadership offices at his own request in April 1999 and became pastor

From September 2008 to March 2010 Schliep was theological advisor at the Center for Health Ethics (German: Zentrum für Gesundheitsethik) with the Loccum Academy (German: Evangelische Akademie Loccum) and again the Commissioner for the environment^[5] of the Church of Hanover. On 1 April 2010, Pastor Schliep went into retirement, but still retained his office as commissioner for the environment of the Church of Hanover to March 2012. Until 2016 he worked as pastor, substitute at the Marktkirche und Neustädter Kirche in Hanover for example and as a Speaker and consultant. He wrote and kept several radio devotions (NDR and others).

Other functions and memberships (selection)

• 1983-1989:Chairman of the Lutherstift Falkenburg charity
• 1983-1989: School board of the Lower Saxon Hermannsburg Lutheran adult education centre (German: de:Niedersächsische Lutherische Heimvolkshochschule Hermannsburg)
• 1983-02/1990: Chairman of the working group pastoral care (German: AG Seelsorge) of the Church of Hanover (Member until 1999)
• 1990- 1999: Member of the Board of the Lutheran publican House (lutherisches Verlagshaus) and co-publisher of the "Vorlagen" Magazine of the Lutheran publican House
• 1983-2000: the Church of Hanover responsible manager for talks with business and unions
• 1984-2001: Chairman of the Examining Commission of the second theological examination (per ministerio) of the Church of Hanover (Member until 2004)
• 1985-1994: Member of the
  EKD
  -chamber of Education
• 1985/86: Guest lecturer at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Evangelische Fachhochschule Hannover)
• 1992-1998: Chairman of the Ev. Village assistants work Lower Saxony (German: Evangelisches Dorfhelferinnenwerk Niedersachsen )
• 1992-1998: Schliep represented the Church of Hanover in the Board of Trustees of the Lower Saxon State Foundation for Children of Chernobyl (German: Landesstiftung Kinder von Tschernobyl).
• since 10/2015: Member of the board of the association Encounter - Christians and Jews in Lower Saxony (German: Begegnung - Christen und Juden in Niedersachsen e.V.)

Published (selection)

Books and writings

• Werkzeug und Denkzeug - Zur Ethik der Technik, 1986,
  ISBN 3-87502-262-9
• Der Evangelisch Soziale Kongreß 1905 in Hannover, Hanover: Evang.-Luth. Landeskirche Hannover, 1996
• 10 Jahre Evangelisches Kirchenzentrum Hannover-Kronsberg - Schrift zum 10-jährigen Jubiläum der Einweihung des Ev. Kirchenzentrums Kronsberg, Hanover: Ev.-Luth. Kirchengemeinde St.Johannis Bemerode, 2010
• Was uns unbedingt angeht... - Kronsberger Predigten, Saarbrücken: Fromm-Verlag, 2012,
  ISBN 978-3-8416-0369-2
• Gläubiger Realismus - Kronsberger Reden, Saarbrücken: Fromm-Verlag, 2012,
  ISBN 978-3-8416-0377-7
• Mach es mit meinem Ende gut - für ein Lebensende in Würde, Saarbrücken: Fromm-Verlag, 2012,
  ISBN 978-3-8416-0179-7
• Mehr als meine Augen sehen - Kronsberger Predigten 2, Saarbrücken: Fromm-Verlag, 2013,
  ISBN 978-3-8416-0391-3
• Ein unglaublicher Glaube - Kronsberger Predigten 3, Saarbrücken: Fromm-Verlag, 2014,
  ISBN 978-3-8416-0534-4
• Der Werdendste, der wird -
  ISBN 978-3-8416-0585-6
• Auf dem Tische Brot und Wein- Poesie und Religion bei Georg Trakl, Fromm Verlag, 2019,
  ISBN 978-613-8-35764-3
  (translated and published in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian language)
  • English edition: on the Table Bread and wine- poetry and Religion in the works of Georg Trakl, Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP), 2020,
    ISBN 978-6200537300
• Christus in der Arbeitswelt- Der Sozial-und Kirchenreformer Wilhelm Fahlbusch (1929 bis 2014), Fromm Verlag, 2020,
  ISBN 978-613-8-36520-4 Review: Wolfgang Vögele, Arbeitswelt und Sozialethik in Magazin für Theologie und Ästhetik, Heft 129, 2021 ^[6]
• Faithfull realism: Kronsberg Speeches, Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP),2020
  ISBN 978-6200570192