Eberhard Runge (fl. ca. 1530)
Eberhard Runge (fl. ca. 1530) OFM. German friar. He joined the order in his adolescence. He was immatriculated at Rostock University in 1518 as a member of the Hannover friary. He reached the magisterium and taught for a while theology at Rostock University before he was appointed provincial minister of the newly created Saxonia Sanctae Crucis province in 1524, after the division of the medieval Saxonia province. Following his three-year stint as provincial minister, he was active as a preacher. In that capacity he was in Hannover, as preacher at the Franciscan friary, which by then had already be secularised. Runge ridiculed reformatory preachers and partisans, apparently with permisson of the city council. Yet this drew out the ire of reformatory parties. Runge and all other Franciscan friars were forced to leave town. He transferred to Hildesheim, where he was at least active until the early to mid 1540s.