Alexander Evertz

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Alexander Evertz (born November 13, 1906 in Solingen ; † June 7, 2001 ) was a Protestant pastor and author in Dortmund. He was one of the most influential actors of the right-wing nationalist groups within the EKD . He was a co-founder and long-time chairman of the Evangelical Emergency Community in Germany (ENiD).

Life

Evertz studied theology in Tübingen , Leipzig and Jena . In Leipzig and Jena he joined the Association of German Students . Since the 1960s, Evertz has been involved in church politics under the ENiD motto "Renewal and Defense - Church must remain Church". Together with other pastors and lay people, he founded the Notgemeinschaft Evangelischer Deutscher, which was renamed Evangelische Notgemeinschaft in Deutschland in 1971 and existed until 2017. Evertz gave the last impetus for this foundation in 1966 with the so-called Ostdenkschrift of the Evangelical Church in Germany from 1966. In it, the EKD is committed to reconciliation with the people in the countries invaded by the Germans. She saw a peaceful reconciliation as possible only if the Oder-Neisse line was recognized.

Evertz was the author of numerous books such as The Apostasy of the Evangelical Church from the Fatherland (1964), The Evangelical Church and the Revolution from the Left (1968) and Alarm in the Church (1968). In it, Evertz complained that after 1945 a “spiritual and theological-church renewal was increasingly oriented towards socialist ideas of order” and “less and less on the defense against ideological influences”, as Junge Freiheit wrote in an obituary.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marc Zirlewagen: Biographies of the clubs German students . tape 1 . Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-2288-1 , pp. 201 .
  2. ↑ Renewal and Defense. Pastor Alexander Evertz, co-founder of the Evangelical Emergency Community, died at the age of 94.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Junge Freiheit , June 22, 2001.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.jungefreiheit.de  
personal data
SURNAME Evertz, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant pastor and author in Dortmund
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 2001