About Us

The Evangelische Hochschule Darmstadt, University of Applied Sciences (EHD), was founded by the Evangelische Kirche in Hessen und Nassau (EKHN), Germany, in 1971. It is an officially recognised university of applied sciences under the patronage of the Evangelische Kirche in Hessen und Nassau in cooperation with the Evangelische Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck (EKKW).

Mission

  1. The EHD uses applied research and teaching to impart education based on scientific knowledge with the aim of qualifying students to work in corresponding professions.
    It also offers further training and education opportunities. The EHD is able to conduct research and development activities insofar as they support the fulfilment of its educational mission and do not have a negative impact on its teaching objective.
  2. To achieve this, the EHD works in cooperation with Church-sponsored organisations and training establishments and with corresponding non-Church university establishments (Church Law on the Establishment of the Evangelische Hochschule Darmstadt, Section 2).

Objective

  1. The EHD pursues the objective of training and educating students for future professions in the fields of social welfare and service in the Church.
  2. The work of the EHD is based on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The university’s Protestant objective is definitively regulated by the Main Article of the Church Order of the Evangelische Kirche in Hessen und Nassau (Church Law on the Establishment of the Evangelische Hochschule Darmstadt, Section 3).

Main Article of the EKHN

The Evangelische Kirche in Hessen und Nassau (EKHN) stands in the unity of the one holy, universal and apostolic Church of Jesus Christ, which can be found everywhere where the Word of God is proclaimed loudly and the sacraments are administered correctly. 

It bears witness to its faith together with the Early Church based on the confessions of the Early Church and together with its fathers based on the Augsburg Confession, irrespective of the Lutheran, Reformed and United confessions in place in the individual congregations. The EKHN is therefore united in its commitment to the realisation that was given to the fathers of the Reformation and bound them together, namely that Jesus Christ alone is our salvation, revealed to us in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments alone, given to us by grace alone and received by faith alone. As the Church of Jesus Christ, the EKHN must bear witness to its confession anew at all times by obediently examining the Holy Scriptures and listening to its sisters and brothers. Against this background, the EKHN is committed to the Theological Declaration of Barmen. 

Called to repentance out of blindness and guilt, it bears witness anew to the lasting election of the Jews and God’s covenant with them. The confession to Jesus Christ includes this testimony. (1947/1992)