(Continued from About my Father (2)) The ink was hardly dry on Albrecht’s BK ordination certificate when the official church got wind of it and took steps to prevent a repetition. In a letter dated May 7, 1941, while Albrecht’s regiment was nearing the Soviet border, the then president of the Konsistoriat in Düsseldorf, the …
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Jul 30
About My Father (3)
- By Martin Nicolaus in My father
- Albrecht Fritz Nicolaus, August Mahrarens, BK (Bekennende Kirche), concentration camp, Dachau, DAhlem, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Düsseldorf, Essen, Günther Dehn, Hans Asmussen, Hans Kerrl, Heinrich Held, Heinrich Schlier, Heinrich Vogel, Helmut Gollwitzer, Helmut Wolf, Hermann Göring, Johannes Böttcher, Johannes Schlingensiepen, Karl Barth, Karl Euler, Karl Friedrich Horn, Karl Koch, Legalization, Lieselotte Wolf, Martin Albertz, Martin Bormann, RAL Sohns, Russia, Waldemar Sinning, Wilhelm Busch
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Jul 21
About the Authentic Church
- By Martin Nicolaus in My father, My mother
Being German and therefore having to begin with beginnings, I started writing my life story by writing the life story of my father. My father’s life story, though brief — he died at age 27 — was very wrapped up with the German Bekennende Kirche, the Authentic Church, so that in order to understand him, …
- Bad Oeynhausen, BK (Bekennende Kirche), Communists, DAhlem, Deutsche Christen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Elisabeth Schmitz, Frankfurt, Gerhard Jacobi, Heinrich Grüber, Hitler, Jews, Karl Barth, Martin Niemöller, Nazi Party, Pastors' Emergency League, Pfarrernotbund, theological exam, Victoria Barnett, Weimar Republic, Women
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