Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rainer Hering
• Larry Eugene Jones
• Hermann Beck

Titel

From Collegiality to the Führerprinzip: The 1933 Introduction of the Episcopacy in the Hamburg Landeskirche

Ist Teil von

• From Weimar to Hitler, 2018, p.281

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• “A revolution in the Church”— this is how Heinz Beckmann (1877–1939), the head pastor of Hamburg’s St. Nikolai Church and the leading representative of the politically liberal wing of the Protestant Church, characterized the changes in the Lutheran branch of the church in Hamburg at the beginning of the Third Reich.¹ The gravity of the Enabling Act compelled this dyed-in-the-wool democrat to use this stark description and to record in writing the events that followed. In 1933 the church’s constitution, with its collegial leadership group and a “Senior” as primus inter pares at its head, in place since the