Category:Evangelischer Oberkirchenrat (Altpreußische Union)

English: Evangelischer Oberkirchenrat (EOK; Evangelical Supreme Ecclesiastical Council; est. in 1850), the supreme governing body of the Evangelical State Church in Prussia's older Provinces (named Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union, EKapU [1922–1953], Evangelical Church of the Union, EKU [1953–2003]). This offoce building was erected in 1912 for the EOK. The EOK body was renamed into church chancery (Kirchenkanzlei) in 1951. On 1 January 2004 EKU merged into Union of Evangelical Churches which moved the church chancery to Hanover in November 2006. Since 2007 the office of Protestant Military chaplains for the Bundeswehr (Evangelisches Kirchenamt für die Bundeswehr [EKA], federal administration for the pastoring of Protestants among Bundeswehr members) is seated in the building.