• The Confessing Church (German: Bekennende Kirche, pronounced [bəˈkɛ.nən.də ˈkɪʁ.çə] ) was a movement within German Protestantism during Nazi Germany that...
    44 KB (5,717 words) - 22:26, 29 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prussian Union of Churches
    "Bekennende Kirche in Berlin", p. 128. Ralf Lange and Peter Noss, "Bekennende Kirche in Berlin", p. 123. Ralf Lange and Peter Noss, "Bekennende Kirche...
    257 KB (33,004 words) - 20:16, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Martin Niemöller
     278, 517 note 12. Borchmeyer, Doris (2010) Die Bekennende Kirche und die Gründung der Evangelischen Kirche in Hessen und Nassau, EKHN. Diss. Justus Liebig...
    29 KB (3,250 words) - 07:32, 21 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Protestant Church in Baden
    Münster), p. 30. ISBN 3-525-61362-8. Bernd Martin, „Professoren und Bekennende Kirche. Zur Formierung Freiburger Widerstandskreise über den evangelischen...
    17 KB (2,050 words) - 17:05, 12 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for First they came ...
    Niemöller, First Commandment, London, 1937, pp. 243–250. LeMO. "Die Bekennende Kirche". Dhm.de. Retrieved 19 June 2014. Niemöller, Martin. "First they came...
    14 KB (1,701 words) - 04:44, 17 January 2024
  • German Christians (Deutsche Christen) and the Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) over control of the Protestant churches; The tensions between the...
    69 KB (8,078 words) - 19:55, 28 February 2024
  • to prominence in the 1930s as a leader of the Confessing Church ("Bekennende Kirche"), which can be seen as a movement within German Protestantism that...
    15 KB (1,511 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for German Christians (movement)
    German) Julius Sammetreuther: Die falsche Lehre der Deutschen Christen; Bekennende Kirche Heft 15; Munich 19343 (in German) Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz (ed...
    40 KB (5,064 words) - 22:18, 3 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Martin Gauger
    from the civil service. In a subsequent post as legal advisor to the Bekennende Kirche (confessing church) he devoted himself to the resistance movement...
    2 KB (223 words) - 12:53, 12 January 2024
  • appeared in 1940. Lösch was a member of the "Confessing Church" (Bekennende Kirche), a Protestant group that spoke out openly against Adolf Hitler and...
    11 KB (1,338 words) - 10:08, 27 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for German Evangelical Church
    the German Evangelical Church "shattered" (the "Confessing Church", Bekennende Kirche) Müller's influence declined after more constant clashes in the German...
    22 KB (2,680 words) - 02:06, 8 February 2024
  • protagonists had close contacts to the oppositional church-movement Bekennende Kirche and Dietrich Bonhoeffer and emphasized the reference of their concept...
    58 KB (7,307 words) - 20:39, 11 March 2024
  • journalist. Through his early involvement with the Confessing Church ("Bekennende Kirche") he came to wider prominence as an opponent of the Nazi government...
    20 KB (2,192 words) - 21:26, 12 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Province of Pomerania (1815–1945)
    Pfarrernotbund (150 members in late 1933) and Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche), the successor organization, headed by Reinold von Thadden-Trieglaff...
    96 KB (11,307 words) - 01:04, 14 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reichskonkordat
    of the Protestant clergy who opposed the Nazi religious program (Bekennende Kirche or Confessing Church) later suffered imprisonment or execution. Church...
    105 KB (14,680 words) - 22:25, 15 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    pastors had joined the Emergency League. It was the forerunner of the Bekennende Kirche (Confessing Church), which aimed to preserve historical, Biblically...
    86 KB (10,033 words) - 20:20, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for F. K. Otto Dibelius
    Zeugen schwiegen: Bekennende Kirche und die Juden, re-edited and accompl. ed., Berlin: Institut Kirche und Judentum, 21993, (Studien zu Kirche und Israel; vol...
    26 KB (3,434 words) - 17:05, 12 December 2023
  • semi-nationalised "Deutsche Evangelische Kirche" ("Church of Germany"). Elisabeth Wendel herself joined the "Bekennende Kirche" in 1942 and was thereafter, according...
    25 KB (2,587 words) - 01:28, 4 March 2024
  • Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN 9783647370255. Hornig, Ernst (1977). Die Bekennende Kirche in Schlesien 1933–1945: Geschichte u. Dokumente (in German). Vandenhoeck...
    10 KB (972 words) - 13:50, 22 January 2024
  • Other groups within the Protestant church included members of the Bekennende Kirche, Confessing Church, which included such prominent members as Martin...
    122 KB (14,512 words) - 00:33, 26 March 2024
  • notifications, unauthorized removal of one was punishable by death. Bekennende Kirche also Bekenntniskirche – "Confessing Church". The groups of Protestant...
    158 KB (20,751 words) - 23:31, 26 March 2024
  • Hannelotte Reiffen [de] were ordained in the German Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche), on 12 January 1943. 1944: Florence Li Tim Oi became the first woman...
    117 KB (11,383 words) - 17:33, 10 March 2024
  • 97-113, here p. 104. ISBN 3-923095-61-9. Ralf Lange and Peter Noss, "Bekennende Kirche in Berlin", in: Kirchenkampf in Berlin 1932-1945: 42 Stadtgeschichten...
    13 KB (1,693 words) - 19:35, 4 February 2022
  • Karlsruhe-Durlach. As someone who had already participated in the Bekennende Kirche movement at University, as a pastor he refused to sign a document...
    3 KB (419 words) - 13:13, 9 February 2021
  • Thumbnail for Kurt Aland
    brothers) in the Bekennende Kirche (Confessing Church). During his studies, he worked for the journal of the Confessing Church, Junge Kirche (Young Church)...
    17 KB (1,831 words) - 18:26, 13 March 2024
  • Basel beginning in 1935. In Germany, he is known as the "Vater der Bekennende Kirche" where he was ousted from his post. His main works are "The Epistle...
    98 KB (445 words) - 11:06, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Helmut Lent
    Joachim and Werner, as members of the Confessing Church (German: Bekennende Kirche), encountered trouble with the Nazi Party. The Confessing Church was...
    72 KB (6,556 words) - 22:46, 14 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Pomerania (1933–1945)
    Pfarrernotbund (150 members in late 1933) and Confessing Church ("Bekennende Kirche"), the successor organization, headed by Reinold von Thadden-Trieglaff...
    68 KB (8,544 words) - 21:21, 11 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harald Poelchau
    Nazis from the beginning, but did not join the Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche). With the beginning of the World War II in 1939, death sentences...
    34 KB (3,262 words) - 02:58, 4 January 2024
  • ("Predigerseminar") of the recently formed anti-Nazi "Confessing Church" ("Bekennende Kirche") at Finkenwalde, just outside the city on its south side. Von Kleist-Retzow...
    19 KB (2,155 words) - 16:49, 22 January 2024