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Lilje, Hanns

(1899–1977). B. Hanover, Ger.; educ. Göttingen, Leipzig, and Zurich; student pastor Hanover 1925; gen. secy. Ger. Christian Student Movement (Deutsche Christliche Studenten-Vereinigung) 1927; vice-pres. World Student Christian Fed. (Christlicher Studenten-Weltbund; see Students, Spiritual Care of, A 5) 1927–34; gen. secy. LWC 1935; arrested 1944 because of his ecumenical connections and his activity in the Bekennende Kirche (see Confessing Church); continued ecumenical connections after WW II; mem. superior provincial consistory 1945; bp. Hannover 1947; activ in EKD; helped form LWF 1947; abbot Loccum (see Molanus, Gerard Walter) 1950; pres. LWF 1952–57; bp. VELKD 1955. Works include Im finstern Tal; Das letzte Buch der Bibel; Luther: Anbruch und Krise der Neuzeit; Luthers Geschichtsanschauung; Martin Luther in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten; Das technische Zeitalter: Grundlinien einer christlichen Deutung. See also Kirchenkampf.

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