(Continued from About My Father (1)) Those “trials by fire” were not far off. After a year of study in Basel, in 1938 Albrecht returned to Germany. He spent approximately a month in Berlin, finishing his theological studies. In early summer of 1938 Albrecht spent almost a month traveling in the UK, visiting London and …
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Jul 28
About My Father (2)
- By Martin Nicolaus in My father
- 1938, Adolf Hitler, Albrecht Frtiz Nicolaus, Anna K. Nicolaus, Basel, Berlin, BK (Bekennende Kirche), Braunfels, Christmas, concentration camp, Czechoslovakia, Darmstadt, Denis Riley, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Elberfeld, England, Essen, Essen-Werden, France, Frankfurt, Germany, Gestapo, Gladys Riley, Hans Schulz, Hartmut Ludwig, Heinrich Held, Heinz Brüggensiecker, Helmut Gollwitzer, Helmut Wolf, Himmler, Italy, Joachim Beckmann, Johannes Beckmann, Johannes Böttcher, Johannes Schlingensiepen, Karl Barth, Kurt Scharf, London, Mail surveillance, Margot Nicolaus, Maria Netter, Martin Karl Nicolaus, Martin Niemöller, Munich Agreement, National Socialist Student Union, Novohrad-Volynskyi, Otto Fricke, Paragraph 90f, Pastor D. Hesse, Pastor Hasse, Paul Schulze von Wiesche, Peace Pledge Union, Poland, Presbyterian Church, Rechtsanwalt Metzger, Rhineland, Roosevelt, Russia, Rzadkowka, Schutzhaft, Siberia, Sondergericht, Strasbourg, Sudetenland, Switzerland, theological exam, Ukraine, Untersuchungsgefängnis, Wehrmacht, Wilhelm Busch, Zwiahel
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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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Jul 21
Thumbnail Profile of My Father
- By Martin Nicolaus in My father
This thumbnail profile of my father appears in Protestantische Profile im Ruhrgebiet: 500 Lebensbilder aus 5 Jahrhunderten (Protestant Profiles in the Ruhr Region: 500 profiles from 5 centuries), edited byMichael Basse, Traugott Jähnichen and Harald Schroeter-Wittke, Hartmut Spenner publishers, Kamen (Germany) 2009, pp. 592-593. The author is Hartmut Ludwig, a church historian and Doctor of …
- 1934, 1938, 1939, 1941, Abitur, Albrecht Fritz Nicolaus, Arbeitsdienst, Basel, Berlin, BK (Bekennende Kirche), Braunfels, England, Essen-Werden, France, Germany, Gestapo, Hartmut Ludwig, Hitler, Karl Barth, Kiel, Kiev, Krupp, Marburg, Margot Nicolaus, Munich Agreement, Rzadkowka, Soviet Union, theological exam, Tübingen, Wehrmacht, Wilhelm Busch
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