| Description | Collection "Kirchenkampf", 1933-1941 and 1947; includes Local group leader Otto Bene to Rieger, London 25.04.1933, announcement of a change of address (NSDAP headed notepaper, London Office) (p 1); Kroger (of the German Christians) to Rieger, Berlin 07.07.1933, with the permission of Pfarrer Hossenfelder, "I would like to inform you that he is able to address you in London on the 28th of the month" (p 2); reply by Rieger, London 18.07.1933, "The reason for us being unable to accommodate you is primarily due to technical difficulties" This was a joint decision of the members of the administration. (p.3); Rieger to Otto Bene, 03.07.1933, notice of a social evening to be held on 10th July, "it is regrettable that not more people will be able to attend........Pfarrerr Wegener will be holding a speech on the theme of 'Young Germany' in the Common Room, (p 4); Rieger to "brother in office" Dahlgrun, 18.07.1933, "we had to avoid a lecture by Hossenfelder in London at all costs. The reason was above all of a technical nature. But it would have been a really inopportune moment to hold it anyway" (p 5); programme for the conference of ministers in Bradford from 27 - 29.11.1933 (p 6); programme for the social evening organised to welcome the church ministers on 27.11.1933 (p 7); various joint announcements by the ministers at the church conference in Bradford 27.11.1933 re the attacks on evangelical belief (p 8), with handwritten drafts (pp 9-12); Heckel to Baron Schroder, Berlin 08.05.1934, "During
our last discussion in February in London we agreed that you would finally settle the situation - that developed from your telegram to the Reich Bishop and from the telgram the pastors of London sent to the Reich Church government - by presenting to the committee of the league of communities my explanation that I gave to all the pastors in London, and to which they all had agreed (underlined in the original, marginal note: untrue !) (S.13); Declaration of November 5, 1934 by the Church of Christ's Assembly of Priests; " The Church council assembled today in the Church of Christ declares that it stands inwardly on the foundation of the Confessional Church, and will immediately begin the necessary negotiations with the church's administrative bodies (Foreign Ministry of the Reich Church and the Confessional Church)." [St.Paul's, Sydenham, St.Mary's Church, St.George's Church, Lutheran Church of Hamburg, Lutheran Church of Hull, Lutheran Church of Liverpool, South Shields & Newcastle] (pp.14-16); three cover letters to the explanation about Heckel and Prases Koch (BK) (pp. 17-20): Circular letter from the pastorial union of Great Britain to all foreign German communities (draft), November 1934, requesting comments regarding the intention to ?? Confessional Church (pp. 21-22); Bonhoeffer's outline for the church boards to deny recognition of the church government headed by Reich Bishop Muller (pp. 23-25); Comment from E.Cruesemann to the declaration by the Church of Christ, January 1935 (pp. 26-28); Pastor Steiniger to the colleagues, attention Pastor Reiger, South Shields, December 16, 1934: "My position in the question of the church is that, after detailed orientation on both sides, a separation from the church alliance cannot take place under any circumstances, without causing immense damage not only the entire matter, but mostly to the foreign communities" (p. 29); Text of the "German Protestant Protest Letter to Reich Chancellor Hitler (p. 30); J. H. Oldham (Conference on Church, Community and State) to Rieger, London, June 11, 1937, Thanks for the transmittal of a copy of the Dibelius-Letter (p. 31, see also p.32); Otto Dibelius, Berlin May 1938, reference for Pastor Franz Hildebrandt (p. 32); Rieger to Prases Koch, London, December 22, 1937: "Our friend Heckel......now denies my previously approved Application for payment of a 2,000 DM contribution for a new organ on the grounds that he did not expect this claim because he has not been informed about communities' matters, and his foreign office cannot be degraded to merely a finance office. (p.33); Copy of letter to Rieger, sender unknown, ' if you now add your dislike of the tone of writing used, to your already long list of complaints about the Weltanschaung of our movement, I, as a sworn servant of our Fuhrer will have no choice but to pass the matter to the representative in the CountryÂ
." (p 34); Two letters from Karl Barth to Dorothy Buxton, Basle 28.09 & 10.10.1938, 'What times ! You too will have been following events with extreme concern' [Hitler-Stalin-Pact] (pp. 35-38); Manuscript by Karl Barth, "I have been asked to add a section to this second copy of my lecture held in March in Oxford & Birmingham, the section deals with views of English opponents, particularly the Bishop of Gloucester, to the Confessional Church" (pp. 39-41); George Chichester ( to the St.George's Church Committe): " I am much touched by your letter which I have received on the occasion of my sixtieth birthday." (p.42); Bonhoeffer to Rieger and Franz Hildebrandt, Congratulations on 175 years of St.George's Church, 24.10.1937, with a transcript by Pfarrer Plag dated 20.08.1985 (pp. 43-44); Colin H.Beale (St.Albans Christian Social Fellowship) to the Bishop of Chichester, 26.05.1941: " We believe that you are able to get in touch with German Christians in Germany, and a group of St.Albans... wishes to send a message through you.", with a reply from George Bell (pp.45-47); A German Confessional College in England. A statement by Julius Rieger, undated (pp. 48-57); Franz Hildebrandt; burials, marriages and confirmations 1939-1947, Cambridge German Church 28.07.1947 (p. 58); Invitation to a theological workshop on October 26-27, 1937 in the hall of the St. George's German Lutheran Church (p.59); George Bell to a Miss Ganz, Chichester 01.08.1934: " I much appreciate Pastor Moller's [Niemollr] communication to me. It makes one's heart sad to read what he says of the unbelievable things taking place." (p.60) |