Swedish Church (Berlin)

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Swedish Victoria Parish, 2013

The Swedish Church in Berlin was planned by Alfred Grenander for the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Victoria parish in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . After the construction phase from 1920 to 1922, it was inaugurated on June 18, 1922. Birger Forell was a pastor in the community from 1929 to 1942. A plaque commemorates him today. - The parish belongs to the Church of Sweden .

history

Swedish Church, 1928

During the Second World War , the community offered shelter to persecuted people and provided them with food and papers. In 1942 Pastor Birger Forell was sent back to Sweden at the urging of the Gestapo . Then Pastor Erik Perwe continued to help until he was killed in a plane crash in 1944. His successor Erik Myrgren also continued to help. The parish u. a. by the Swedish Embassy, ​​Countess Maria von Maltzan and the policemen Hoffmann and Mattick from the police station 115 opposite.

 Only the tower remains from the original building at Bundesallee 39. A new church building was built elsewhere by Peter Celsing from 1952 to 1955 . The church at Landhausstrasse 26-28 in the Wilmersdorf district is one of four Swedish parishes in Germany.

The pastor Perwe and Myrgren were long after the war by Yad Vashem for their humanitarian assistance as Righteous Among the Nations honored.

literature

  • Robert Kain: Otto Weidt. Anarchist and “Righteous Among the Nations” (Writings of the German Resistance Memorial Center / Series A / Analyzes and Representations; Vol. 10). Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86732-271-3 , esp. Pp. 369–385, full text in excerpt online.

Web links

Commons : Church of Sweden  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Flohr: Secret Freight to Sweden . In: Die Zeit , February 4, 2016, accessed on February 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ Berlin telephone and address book 1964/65 ; P. 779.
  3. ↑ 192. Walk through the neighborhood. January 16, 2018, accessed September 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Swedish Church of the Victoria Parish. on the website of the district office of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
  5. ↑ The Swedish Church at oerbb.de
  6. ↑ Swedish Churches. ( Memento of September 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Swedish Embassy

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 16.1 ″  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 44.8 ″  E