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The trio in the Protestant parish is complete again: Anna Hertl will be pastor in Penzberg from March;
in the picture with the pastors Julian Lademann (l.) and Philipp Roß (r.) in the Martin Luther Church.
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The priest trio in the Protestant parish of Penzberg will soon be complete again.
After Sandra Gassert said goodbye last summer, Anna Hertl will be the new pastor in March.
The 38-year-old knows her way around here very well: she grew up in Penzberg, went to school and was confirmed.
Penzberg – It must feel a bit like coming home.
Anna Hertl recently moved with her husband and two daughters to Penzberg, the place where she grew up and went to school, where she was conformed and was part of the Protestant youth.
And Anna Hertl will now be the new pastor there.
The introductory service will take place on March 3rd in the Martin Luther Church in Penzberg.
She will share a pastor's position with Philipp Roß, who has been in Penzberg since October 2021.
“I always liked taking responsibility”
“You feel at home,” confirms Anna Hertl.
She tells how she took part in the church's Advent calendar campaign before Christmas.
She knew many people from before.
“That made me happy.” Anna Hertl had once been confirmed by the then Penzberg pastor Gerhard Orth and was a member of the Protestant youth group at the time of youth deacon Hans-Jürgen Dommler.
She later also led a youth group there.
“I always liked taking on responsibility, which you are allowed to do very early on in the Protestant church.”
“It was more like: I’ll do it now.”
According to her, the experiences in Protestant youth work, the creativity and the questions about the meaning of life that were asked in the church were also the reason why she studied Protestant theology in Munich and Berlin after school.
Although initially she didn't aim to become a pastor.
“It was more like: I’ll do it now.” It wasn’t until she was studying that the desire to become a pastor emerged.
“I realized that the job was cool.” After completing her studies, she saw her wish confirmed during her two and a half year vicariate in Unterschleißheim.
Back then, she gave her first sermon (“Of course you’re nervous”), spoke at the first funeral (“I had a bit of a panic”), worked with seniors and young people and introduced a crawling service.
The ordination followed in March 2015 in Puchheim (in the Catholic Church one would speak of ordination).
From then on, Anna Hertl was a pastor.
She took a little detour professionally.
She worked for a year at BMW in the communications department, essentially as a “pastor in business,” employed by the church but paid by the company.
The first pastor's position was in Neufahrn near Freising
In 2016, Anna Hertl accepted her first pastor's position in Neufahrn near Freising, where she devoted herself primarily to youth work.
She worked there until 2022.
Afterwards, with the birth of her second daughter, she went on parental leave, during which she and her family moved to Penzberg.
The Penzberg priest trio has met before
She is very pleased that the application for half the pastor's position in Penzberg worked out.
Anna Hertl not only knows many members of the parish, but also Pastor Julian Lademann.
“We know each other from way back,” says Lademann.
Namely from the Protestant children's tent camp in Lindenbichl.
Lademann, now 41 years old, was a youth leader in Weilheim at the time, and Anna Hertl was a youth leader in Penzberg.
A few years ago both worked in the same deanery, namely Freising.
Anna Hertl and Philipp Roß (37) have also already met.
Both were guests at each other's ordination - it is always celebrated for several theologians.
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Introductory service is on March 3rd
The church council has not yet decided what Anna Hertl's priorities will be in Penzberg.
She says she would like to work with young families.
Which, according to Lademann, would be appropriate.
It is important to her that people feel a connection to the holy, to God.
The church has messages that are good and relevant, she says.
The task is to understand and convey this and also to search together.
From March 1st, Anna Hertl, who is still on parental leave, will initially fill a quarter-pastor position, and then a half-pastor position from June.
The introductory service (with Dean Jörg Hammerbacher) is on Sunday, March 3rd, from 5:30 p.m. in the Martin Luther Church.