Landeskirchenamt Hannover
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The Hanover Regional Church Office (LKA) serves as the supreme administrative authority for the administration of the
History
After World War II, the Regional Church Office was located in the Hanns-Lilje-Haus from 1947 to 1957.
Tasks
The Regional Church Office manages the affairs of the regional church and supervises the ecclesiastical corporations within the regional church, represents the regional church in legal and administrative matters, and oversees Church Office holders.[2] Primary tasks of the Regional Church Office include handling theological fundamental questions, representing church positions in society, culture, and politics, preserving and developing church law and the efficient organization of the regional church, and securing the finances of the regional church.
The Regional Church Office is the publisher of the Church Official Gazette for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover.
Organization
Departments
Since 2010, the agency has been divided into eight departments, to which bureaus are assigned, and other service and business offices.[3] Until 2010, the Regional Church Office was divided into more than twenty Departments.
- Department 1: Leadership with the accompaniment of the church governing bodies, Church and State
- Department 2: Theology and Congregation, ecclesiastical fields of action, Mission and Ecumenism
- Department 3: Personnel, Training and Further Education
- Department 4: Education, School, Children and Youth
- Department 5: Diakonie
- Department 6: Financial Economy and Information Technology
- Department 7: Legal Department
- Department 8: Real Estate Economy, Environmental Protection
The Regional Church Office houses the office of the Synod of the regional church and is the seat of the Personnel Committee, which is formed by the church governing bodies. It was until 2019 the seat of the office of the Church Senate. About 220 employees work at the Regional Church Office on 193.60 positions, including 95 church officials (as of 2014). In 1992, there were still 296 positions. In 2023, 350 employees are employed at the Regional Church Office and the affiliated offices.
The spokesperson for the Hanoverian Regional Church works for all church governing bodies of the regional church and for the Confederation of Protestant Churches in Lower Saxony and is assigned to the president. He is integrated into the
Regional Church Office branches at other locations in Hanover
- Goethestraße 27: Hanover Regional Church Archive.
- Knochenhauerstr. 38-40: Audit Office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover (Central Seat, Leadership), plus five regional offices (Hannover, Lüneburg, Bremerhaven – Stade, Aurich – Osnabrück, Göttingen – Hildesheim) (directly assigned to the President)
- Rote Reihe: Library of the Regional Church Office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover in the Fürstenhof.
- Brandstraße 3: Regional Church Cash Office and staff office in the House of Church Services of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover.
- Archivstraße 3: Department for Environmental Affairs in the House of Church Services (together with the Church and Environmental Protection working field in the HkD)
- Archivstraße 3: Evangelical Media Work (EMA) in the House of Church Services
- Ebhardtstraße 3: Diakonie of the Evangelical Churches in Lower Saxony (Diakonie department).
- Haarstraße 6: Chancellery of the State Bishop (directly assigned to the Regional Church Office).
- Goseriede 7: School Work of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover(directly assigned to the Regional Church Office)
- Goethestraße 29: Art Department of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover (integrated into the Regional Church Office).
Other Offices
- Offices for Building and Art Conservation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover: Nine main and branch offices distributed across the territory of the regional church.
- Detmold, Doktorweg 2: Office of the Supplementary Pension Fund of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover.
Leadership of the Regional Church Office as an Administrative Authority
The President is remunerated according to the B 7 pay scale, and the Vice Presidents according to B 4. In 2023, it is intended to evaluate the position of the President, the President's position according to B6. The regional church applies the Lower Saxony civil service salary scale.
President
The Regional Church Office is led as an administrative authority by a lawyer who also heads Department 1. The President is the superior of all employees and responsible for all fundamental matters of the organization of the Regional Church Office as well as for coordinating the departments. He handles fundamental administrative matters and is responsible for the church governing bodies of the regional church as well as for the EKD and VELKD. He is responsible for state and European legal issues. He represents the Regional Church Office and the regional church in public and in ecclesiastical, political, and social committees.
- 1924–1929: Viktor Lampe
- 1930–1933: Max Schramm
- 1933–1946: Friedrich Schnelle
- 1946–1952: Gustav Ahlhorn
- 1952: Ernst-Viktor Benn (1898–1990)[4]
- 1952–1970: Karl Wagenmann
- 1970–1983: Johann Frank
- 1984–2008: Eckhart von Vietinghoff
- 2008–May 2013: Burkhard Guntau
- August 30, 2013-October 2023: Stephanie Springer
- From mid-2024: Jens Lehmann (designate)
Since October 23, 2023, until the new appointment of the President, the office leadership is exercised by the Vice Presidents Ralph Charbonnier and Rainer Mainusch.
Vice Presidents
The Vice Presidents support the President in the exercise of leadership duties. They coordinate the work of the committees of the Collegium assigned to them. They can be informed about all work processes of the departments assigned to them and reserve the right to their final processing.
Spiritual/Theological Vice President
The Theological Vice President, until November 2020 Spiritual Vice President, heads Department 2 and the Theology Committee. He is responsible for ecclesiastical/theological fundamental and legal questions, the works and institutions (in principle), the theological faculties and church universities, and for the Landessuperintendentures of the regional church. He wears an official cross.
- 1924–1932: Karl Wagenmann
- 1932–1933: Paul Fleisch
- 1933–1934: Gerhard Hahn
- 1953–1965: Christhard Mahrenholz
- 1965–1969: Friedrich Bartels
- 1969–1984: Hans Philipp Meyer
- 1984–1999: Günter Linnenbrink
- 1999–2001: Hans Schmidt
- 2001–2002: Ernst Kampermann
- 2002–2006: Martin Schindehütte
- 2006–2020: Arend de Vries
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Legal/Juridical Vice President (incomplete)
The Legal Vice President, currently Juridical Vice President, heads Department 7 and the Legal Committee. He is responsible for fundamental legal issues (as of December 2021).
- 1936–1938: Constanz Brüel
- 1938–1952: vacant
- 1953–1958: Constanz Brüel
- 1958–1968: Erich Ruppel
- 1968–1977: Herbert Wiese
- 1977–1993: Werner Knüllig
- 1993–2002: Klaus Grüneklee
- 2002–2021: Rolf Krämer
- since 12/2021: Rainer Mainusch
Regional Church Office as a Church Governing Body
Chairman
The State Bishop, as chairman of the Regional Church Office, is to be informed about all fundamental matters. He regularly conducts service meetings with the President and the Vice Presidents. He is represented in the Collegium by the President. The State Bishop is remunerated according to the Salary Group B 8 of the Salary Order B.[5]
Collegium
The
Members
- State Bishop Ralf Meister (chairman)
- Theological Vice President Ralph Charbonnier
- Juridical Vice President Rainer Mainusch
- OLKR'in Kerstin Gäfgen-Track
- OLKR Hans-Joachim Lenke
- OLKR Fabian Spier
- OLKR Adalbert Schmidt
- OLKR'in Nicola Wendebourg
(As of October 2023)[6]
Miscellaneous
Some scenes for the Tatort episode The Last Patient with Maria Furtwängler as Charlotte Lindholm were filmed in the building of the Regional Church Office Hanover. In the film, the Church Office serves as the Youth and Social Office Hanover-Center.
References
- ^ "Geltendes Recht: 150 a Bischofsgesetz (LBischG) - Kirchenrecht Online-Nachschlagewerk | Ev.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers".
- ^ "Organigramm der Landeskirche". www.landeskirche-hannovers.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-03-21.
- ^ "Willkommen". www.landeskirche-hannovers.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-03-21.
- ^ Gertraud Grünzinger: Personenlexikon zum deutschen Protestantismus 1919-1949. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006, ISBN 3-525-55761-2, p. 34 (Landeskirchenamt Hannover, p. 34, at Google Books)
- ^ "Geltendes Recht: 150 a Bischofsgesetz (LBischG) - Kirchenrecht Online-Nachschlagewerk | Ev.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers".
- ^ "Regional Church Office". Ev. Regional Church of Hanover. 27 November 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-17.