Leading Persons in History
The leading organ of the church is the synod, which meets each year in January since 1975 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler (before 1975 in Bad Godesberg).
- 1835 - 1846: Franz Friedrich Gräber
- 1847 - 1851: Georg August Ludwig Schmidtborn
- 1853 - 1860: Johann Heinrich Wiesmann
- 1862 - 1864: Johann Karl Friedrich Maaß
- 1865 - 1877: Friedrich Nieden
- 1877 - 1888: Stephan Friedrich Evertsbusch
- 1890 - 1893: Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Kirschstein
- 1893 - 1898: Valentin Umbeck
- 1899 - 1905: Friedrich Wilhelm Schürmann
- 1908 - 1912: Albert Hackenberg
- 1914 - 1917: Georg Hafner
- 1919 - 1932: Friedrich Walter Paul Wolff
- 1932 - 1934: Friedrich Schäfer
- 1934 - 1935: Paul Humburg
- 1935 - 1948: Friedrich Horn
- 1948 - 1957: Heinrich Karl Ewald Held
- 1958 - 1971: Joachim Wilhelm Beckmann
- 1971 - 1981: Karl Immer
- 1981 - 1989: Gerhard Brandt
- 1989 - 1996: Peter Beier
- 1996 - 1997: Hans Ulrich Stephan, Oberkirchenrat und amtierender Präses
- 1997 - 2003: Manfred Kock
- 2003 - today: Nikolaus Schneider
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