Brother Council of the EKD

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After the end of the Second World War , the Reich Brotherhood Council of the Confessing Church continued to meet as the Brother Council of the EKD ( Evangelical Church in Germany ). In 1948 he handed over the right to leadership, which he derived from the church emergency law proclaimed by the Dahlem Synod , to the EKD Council .

Its first chairman (1945-1946) was Hans Asmussen . He was followed by Heinrich Held (1946–1947) , Joachim Beckmann (1947–1949) and, from 1949, Martin Niemöller . After the ecclesiastical emergency law was terminated, the regional brother councils were asked to rename their representatives by May 1, 1949. At the meeting on December 1 and 2, 1949 in Darmstadt (at which the office in Darmstadt was also opened under the direction of Managing Director Herbert Mochalski ), they elected ten additional members, as was the case with the Oeynhaus Confessing Synod in 1936.

In 1952, his office was closed after more conservative, Lutheran regional churches were no longer willing to co-finance his work because he had opposed German rearmament .

The Darmstädter Wort was his most famous publication.

Members of the Brotherhood Council at the beginning of 1950

Members sent by the regional brotherhoods

Additional (co-opted) members

Individual evidence

  1. ZEKHN 36/10, Minutes of the Council meeting on 6/7 brother. January 1949 in Detmold, p. 13.
  2. ZEKHN 36/11, report on the Brothers' Council meeting on June 29 and 30 in Halle, as well as the agenda for the meeting on December 1 and 2 in Darmstadt, ZEKHN 36/12.
  3. ZEKHN 36/13