Lutheran Council
The Lutheran Council was a church institution in the church struggle of the Third Reich . It was created on the initiative of Regional Bishop August Marahrens to profile the Lutheran position within the Confessing Church and existed from 1934 to 1936. Members were Lutheran bishops, theological faculties, organizations and individuals. From March 11, 1936, his successor organization was the Luther Council .
Bishops
- Hans Meiser (Bavaria)
- Theophil Wurm (Württemberg)
- Otto Zänker (Silesia)
- August Marahrens (Hanover)
- Simon Schöffel (Hamburg [retired])
- Wilhelm Zoellner ( Ecclesiastical Province of Westphalia [emeritus])
Representatives of the faculties
- Paul Althaus (Erlangen)
- Werner Elert (Erlangen)
- Hermann Sasse (Erlangen)
- Kurt Dietrich Schmidt (Kiel or Hermannsburg Missionary Seminar )
- Julius Schniewind (Koenigsberg)
- Ernst Sommerlath (Leipzig)
- Friedrich Brunstäd (Rostock)
- Helmuth Schreiner (Rostock)
- Johannes von Walter (Rostock)
Representatives of the organizations
- Friedrich Ulmer ( Martin Luther Association )
- Carl Ihmels ( Leipzig Mission )
- Detlev von Arnim-Kröchlendorff (Evangelical Lutheran Association in Old Prussia)
- Heinrich Kloppenburg ( Brother Councils of Low German Lutheranism)
Individual personalities
- Georg Merz
- Walter Künneth
- Gerhard Gloege
- Paul meat
- Friedrich Wilhelm Hopf
- Volkmar Herntrich
- Hanns Lilje
- Martin Stallmann
- Wilfried Wolters
- Gustav Ahlhorn
- Hans Meinzolt
- Christian Stoll
- Wilhelm Laible
- Heinz Pflugk
- Gerhard Niemann
- Wolfgang Metzger
- Erich Klamroth
- Titus Reuter
- Johannes Bergdolt
- Gottfried Nagel
- Karl Fischer
- Otto Meyer
- Richard Otto
- Wilhelm Ferdinand Schmidt
literature
- Thomas Martin Schneider: Against the zeitgeist. The way to the VELKD as a Lutheran confessional church , Göttingen 2008.
- Heinz Boberach / Carsten Nicolaisen / Ruth Pabst (eds.): Handbook of the German Protestant Churches, 1918 to 1949: Organs, Offices, Associations, Persons , Volume 1, National Institutions, Göttingen 2010.