German Evangelical Church in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia

The German Evangelical Church in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia (DEKiBMS) was a Lutheran church.

Evangelical Church of the DEK in Ostrava

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.