Community of Protestant East Prussians

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The Community of Protestant East Prussia (GeO) is an association to remember and care for Protestant life in former East Prussia . The association is based in Rückersdorf (Middle Franconia) . Chairman is Provost i. R. Erhard Wolfram from Hanover; 2. Chairman and secretary is pastor i. R. Klaus Plorin from Rückersdorf. Associated with the association is the Community of Protestant East Prussia Foundation based in Telgte-Westbevern .

The Community of Protestant East Prussia e. V. was founded on July 27, 1964 in Leverkusen by the evangelical pastor Werner Marienfeld . Marienfeld worked as a youth pastor in the young community of Brandenburg an der Havel. After the uprising of June 17, 1953, he was able to avoid a planned arrest due to a tip from the city administration and initially hid in the tower of St. Katharinen . In September 1953 he then fled to West Berlin and later emigrated to the Federal Republic.

The association supports Protestant parishes in maintaining their buildings and facilities in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , Kaliningrad Oblast , Klaipėda District and Tauragė District .

The association organized East Prussian church services and church days in Berlin, Hamburg, Hanover, Lüneburg, Dresden and Munich as well as bus trips through the former East Prussia.

A circular for members is published four times a year. The association has contact persons for Bavaria, Chemnitz, Dresden, Lüneburg and Hamburg.

Publications

  • Gerhard Mannke: Christian life in East Prussia
  • Georg Michels (Ed.): Martin Luther and the Reformation in East Prussia

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Community of Protestant East Prussia e. V. Accessed May 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ dizk. Organizational profile. Retrieved May 30, 2017 .
  3. ^ Evangelical cathedral grammar school Brandenburg an der Havel. Retrieved May 31, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Christian Halbrock: Evangelical Pastors of the Berlin-Brandenburg Church 1945-1961: Atsautonomy in the Guardian State? Page 411, Lukas Verlag 2004
  5. ^ Culture portal West East. Community of Protestant East Prussia e. V. Accessed May 30, 2017 .