Herbert Mochalski

Herbert Mochalski (born February 28, 1910 in Görlitz , † December 27, 1992 in Hanover ) was a German politician, journalist and Protestant pastor.

job

Mochalski was already close to the Confessing Church and Martin Niemöller during the Second World War . In 1937 he became a pastor in Oberwalden in Silesia. He was briefly imprisoned there in June 1937 together with some members of the community. He was then expelled from Silesia and was then an employee of the second provisional church leadership of the German Evangelical Church. In 1939 he got a pastor's post in Berlin-Schöneberg and from 1941 to 1945 he managed the pastoral post of the imprisoned Martin Niemöllers in Berlin-Dahlem.

In 1946 he was appointed managing director of the EKD's brother council by Hans Asmussen . In 1948 he founded the magazine Nachrichten der Confessende Kirche and in 1949 the magazine Die Voice der Gemeinde , whose editor-in-chief he was until 1973. After the pamphlet "To the rifles? No!" Mochalski was elected student pastor in Darmstadt in 1951 with the support of Martin Niemöller. In the same year he founded the "Darmstadt Action Groups". Mochalski remained honorary managing director of the Brotherhood Council of the EKD until 1953 and student pastor in Darmstadt until 1961 .

Political career

Mochalski was involved in several initiatives that were suspected of being “communist front organizations”. This also included the "Darmstadt Action Groups". Later he was a leading member of the Christian Peace Conference , the German Peace Society and the anti-nuclear death campaign. He wrote regularly for the other newspaper and the Deutsche Volkszeitung .

He was personally in close contact with representatives of the All-German People's Party , for which he also ran for the Bundestag in 1953, the Federation of Germans and the German Peace Union . Martin Niemöller, the temporary chairwoman of the DFU, Renate Riemeck, and the Protestant theologians Heinrich Kloppenburg and Ernst Wilm belonged to his closer circle of acquaintances .

Works

The change in shape of the Evangelical Church in Germany. The historical and spiritual development of the Evangelical Church in Germany . Stuttgart 1948

Web links

Literature by Herbert Mochalski in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Herbert Mochalski in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
↑ Unpublished correspondence in the central archive of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau, 64285 Darmstadt, inventory 36, file 1.
^ Arnulf Baring: Foreign Policy in Adenauer's Chancellor Democracy: Bonn's Contribution to the European Defense Community . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-486-81912-0 , p. 439 ( google.de [accessed October 2, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Mochalski, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (GVP), journalist and Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 28, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH	December 27, 1992
Place of death	Hanover

[1] Herbert Mochalski in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

[2] Unpublished correspondence in the central archive of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau, 64285 Darmstadt, inventory 36, file 1.

[3] Arnulf Baring: Foreign Policy in Adenauer's Chancellor Democracy: Bonn's Contribution to the European Defense Community . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-486-81912-0 , p. 439 ( google.de [accessed October 2, 2019]).