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August Friedrich Karl Marahrens (11 October 1875, in
August Friedrich Karl Marahrens (11 October 1875, in Hanover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...
– 3 May 1950, in Loccum
Loccum is a village situated about 50 km north west of Hanover in the district of Nienburg in Lower-Saxony, Germany. It has been a part of the city of Rehburg-Loccum since 1974. Loccum covers an area of 32 km² with a population of abou ...
, Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...
) was a German Protestant bishop who served as Landesbischof
A Landesbischof () is the head of some Protestant regional churches in Germany. Based on the principle of '' summus episcopus'' (german: landesherrliches Kirchenregiment), after the Reformation each Lutheran prince assumed the position of supreme ...
of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover
The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover (german: Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers) is a Lutheran church body ''(Landeskirche)'' in the northern German state of Lower Saxony and the city of Bremerhaven covering the territory of th ...
Bibliography
* Paul Fleisch: ''Landesbischof D. Marahrens.'' In: ''Lutherische Kirche'', Heft 20, 1935, 353–356. * Friedrich Duensing (ed.): ''Der Landesbischof und die Kirche.'' 1935. * Friedrich Duensing: ''Der Abschied Seiner Hochwürden des Landesbischofs D. Marahrens aus dem Bischofamte.'' 1947. Clergy from Hanover 1875 births 1950 deaths 20th-century German Lutheran bishops {{Christian-clergy-stub