German Evangelical Church in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia
The German Evangelical Church in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia (DEKiBMS) was a Lutheran church.
The church existed between 1919 and 1945 in what is now the Czech Republic . It was on the First Church Congress on 25./26. Founded October 1919 in the Christ Church in Turn ( Trnovany ) near Teplitz . Church president Erich Wehrenfennig was in charge of the church .
With the end of the Second World War, the legal existence of this church ended after it was dissolved by a decree of President Edvard Beneš on May 6, 1948, retroactively to May 4, 1945 due to cooperation with the protectorate authorities . Many of the church buildings today belong to the Bohemian Brothers and the Czechoslovak Hussite Church .
literature
- Maria Heinke-Probst: The German Evangelical Church in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia 1918-1938 (-1946). Search for identity between nationality and creed. Kirchhof & Franke, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-933816-58-0 , 238 pages ( online ).
- Maria Heinke-Probst: The German Evangelical Church in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. In: Martin Schulze Wessel , Martin Zückert (Hrsg.): Handbook of the religious and church history of the Bohemian countries and the Czech Republic in the 20th century. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58957-3 , pp. 165-186.
Web links
- Edith Bergler: The "German Evangelical Church in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia" (DEKiBMS)
- Directory of parishes, branches and preaching offices of the German Evangelical Church in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia
Individual evidence
Brno Church
Český Těšín Church
Friedeck Church
Olomouc Church
Church of Ostrava