Board and Management (Liquidation)

Dr. André Ritter

Dr. theol., 1981-1988 studies of Protestant theology in Wuppertal, Tübingen, Bern and Zurich. 1989-1966 appointed by the synod of the Protestant church district in Bonn for Christian-Muslim-Dialogue. After serving as a vicar he was appointed as programme director of the Evangelisch-Theologisches Studienhaus Adolf-Clarenbach 1991-1996, maintained by the Protestant church of Rhineland in Bonn.

1997 doctorate at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal with a dissertation on the dialogue between Christians and Muslims, Co-founder of the academic series “Studien zum interreligiösen Dialog” (ebv Hamburg / Waxmann-Verlag Münster). Until 2012 pastor of the Protestant church in the Principality of Liechtenstein.

2002-2010 lecturer for ecumenical theology at University of Lucerne. 2007 fellowship at Harvard Divinity School in Boston-Cambridge (USA). Since 2012 different lectures at the Pädagogische Hochschule of Heidelberg resp. at the Pädagogische Hochschule of Karlsruhe, 2017 at the Weltethos-Institute at the University of Tübingen and since 2018 at the University of Munich.

After 20 years of managing our Institute Director Dr. André Ritter will retire on January 1, 2025. The gGmbH based in Heidelberg will also be dissolved within a reasonable period of time.