Association for the German Church

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The Bund für Deutsche Kirche was founded in June 1921 by Joachim Kurd Niedlich , Ernst Bublitz and Friedrich Andersen . Participated in the foundation were Houston Stewart Chamberlain , Adolf Bartels , Arthur Bonus , Hans von Wolzogen and other Wagnerian from the Bayreuth area. It should help to change the evangelical church in a folk way. He was in competition with the German Christians . They saw themselves as a “fighting and working community” with the aim of freeing the church from its Jewish clutches and creating a Christianity steeped in Germany. Above all, it was about the abolition of the Old Testament as the basis of German Christianity. For example, the Aaronic blessing should no longer be given. The Deutschkirche published a periodical called Die Deutschkirche. The editor was Pastor Ernst Bublitz. With the death of Kurd Niedlich, the German Church lost its figurehead. Andersen remained formally chairman, but the practical and theological direction was more and more in the hands of Ernst Bublitz.

literature

  • Kurt Meier : The "Bund für Deutsche Kirche" and its ethnic-anti-Judaistic theology. In: Kurt Nowak, Gérard Raulet: Protestantism and anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic. Campus, Frankfurt 1994, ISBN 3-593-35197-8 , pp. 177-198.
  • Hans Treplin: Neither Hauer nor the German Church. A popular word from Schleswig-Holstein about the struggle for the Christian faith , Breklum 1935; reprinted in: Karl Ludwig Kohlwage , Manfred Kamper, Jens-Hinrich Pörksen (eds.): “You will be my witnesses!” Voices for the preservation of a denominational church in urgent times. The Breklumer Hefte of the ev.-luth. Confessional community in Schleswig-Holstein from 1935 to 1941. Sources on the history of the church struggle in Schleswig-Holstein. Compiled and edited by Peter Godzik , Husum: Matthiesen Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-7868-5308-4 , pp. 42–65.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Loose: Festgabe for the sixtieth birthday of Adolf Bartels. Leipzig 1922, p. 179.
  2. ↑ Biogram Hans Treplin (online at geschichte-bk-sh.de)