German Evangelical Church Congress 1975

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The 16th German Evangelical Church Congress 1975 took place from June 11th to 15th, 1975 in Frankfurt am Main . It was under the slogan "In fears and see we live" ( 2. Cor. 6  LUT ). The host regional church was the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau , and the President of the Church Congress was the political scientist Kurt Sontheimer .

invitation

It was the second Kirchentag in Frankfurt am Main, after 1956 . As early as 1968 there were initiatives by the Kirchentag and the Central Committee of German Catholics for an ecumenical Pentecost meeting in 1971 in Frankfurt am Main. However, this could not be enforced, as Frankfurt was not considered safe due to the student movement and the department store arson on April 2, 1968 . Instead , the Ecumenical Whitsun Meeting in 1971 was held in Augsburg , the city of Augsburg's religious peace .

The 1975 Kirchentag slogan referred to this discussion again. In the invitation, Kirchentag President Sontheimer formulated: “It is not entirely by chance that the motto of the Kirchentag 1975 'In angst - and see, we live' is thematized in an economic metropolis in which the forms of threat to human existence in the industrial mass society are particularly virulent are."

course

Panel discussion on the topic of "Power and powerlessness of the church in society" on June 13th in the congress hall ( Helmut Schmidt , Liselotte Funcke , Eberhard Maseberg )

After the number of permanent participants had reached a historic low at the previous Kirchentag 1973 in Düsseldorf, the number of participants in Frankfurt rose sharply again. Around 15,000 permanent participants attended the events, which mainly took place on the Frankfurt exhibition grounds . About 40,000 visitors came to the closing service in Rebstockpark . During the service seemed Helmut Claß , Helmut Hild , Wilhelm Kempf , Philip Potter , Kurt Scharf , Bernhard Vogel and Kurt Sontheimer with.

The market of possibilities in the Frankfurt exhibition halls attracted many participants with over 100 booths and stands. In the podium events, the participants dealt with the question of whether pastors are allowed to belong to the DKP . Church President Hild thought membership was incompatible with the parish office.

literature

  • Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag (Ed.): In Ängsten and see we live - Answers and offers , Kreuz-Verlag 1975, ISBN 3783104734
  • Jürgen Telschow: History of the Evangelical Church in Frankfurt am Main . Volume III: From the post-war period to the present (=  series of publications by the Evangelical Regional Association Frankfurt am Main . No. 42 ). Waldemar Kramer in the publishing house Römerweg GmbH, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-922179-56-6 , p. 182-183 .

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