Margot Käßmann
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Margot Käßmann in 2015
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Margot Schulze 3 June 1958 Marburg, West Germany |
| Spouse(s) | Eckhard Käßmann (1981-2007) |
| Children | 4 |
Margot Käßmann (German: [ˈmaʁɡɔt ˈkɛːsman]; born 3 June 1958) is a Lutheran theologian and was Landesbischöfin (bishop) of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover in Germany. On 28 October 2009, she was elected to lead the Evangelical Church in Germany, a federation of Protestant church bodies in Germany. an office from which she stepped down on 24 February 2010 following a drunk-driving incident.
Käßmann was born Margot Schulze in Marburg. She passed her Abitur at the Elisabethschule Marburg in 1977 and studied Protestant theology at the universities of Tübingen, Edinburgh, Göttingen and Marburg. During her studies, she participated among other things in archaeological excavations in 1978 of several weeks' duration in Akko, Israel. In 1983 she became a "Vikarin" (German for curate) in Wolfhagen, near Kassel. She also attended the Hotchkiss School on a scholarship by ASSIST.
She participated as a youth delegate in the 1983 plenary assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Vancouver, where she became the youngest member of the central committee. Between 1991 and 1998, she was a member of the executive committee of the WCC.
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