Intact churches
When intact churches of were in time Kirchenkampf Protestant national churches called, in which the German Christians were a majority in the church elections of 23 July 1933 and in which occurred no permanent changes in the Church line due to orders of the Reich and Prussian Ministry of Culture . In these churches the church emergency law of Dahlem did not apply because their church leaderships were still considered legitimate by the Confessing Church - therefore it was incumbent on the church leaders to send synodals to the Confessional Synod and delegates to the Imperial Council of Brothers.
The Evangelical Church in Württemberg , the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria on the right of the Rhine , the two regional churches in Hanover (the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover and the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Province of Hanover ) and the Old Prussian Church Province of Westphalia were considered intact churches . The other regional churches of the German Evangelical Church were considered destroyed churches .
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Hans-Walter Krumwiede: Church history of Lower Saxony: From the German Confederation in 1815 to the establishment of the Evangelical Church in Germany in 1948 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-525-55432-X , p. 618 , section “Intact” and “Destroyed” regional churches .
- ^ Wilhelm Niemöller : The Fourth Confession Synod of the German Evangelical Church in Bad Oeynhausen , p. 57 online
- ^ Thomas Sauer: Orientation towards the West in German Protestantism? Concepts and activities of the Kronberger Kreis, order systems. Studies on the history of ideas in modern times, Vol. 2, ISBN 978-3-486-56342-9 , p. 26 online