German Evangelical Church Congress (1919–1930)

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In September 1919 the German Evangelical Church Congress met for the first time in Dresden as the representative of the Evangelical regional churches in Germany . He is considered the forerunner of the Evangelical Church in Germany .

The reason for this was the necessary reorientation after the First World War : the abdication of the emperor and prince in November 1918 led to the fall of the Summepiskopat that had existed since the Reformation .

This and the next Kirchentag in September 1921 prepared a union of churches; Ascension Day In 1922 the German Evangelical Church Federation was founded in Wittenberg as an amalgamation of the 28 still independent regional churches. The parliament or synod of this federation of churches was the German Evangelical Church Congress , which met in Bethel in 1924 , in Königsberg in 1927 and in Nuremberg in 1930 .

literature

  • Margot Käßmann : On the history of the German Evangelical Church Congress . Hanover 2005 (lecture in the Lower Saxony state parliament, May 17, 2005, PDF ).
  • Daniel Bormuth : The German Evangelical Church Days in the Weimar Republic . Stuttgart et al. 2007