Word: bodelschwingh
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Nazi Protestants, led by Rev. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, were barred from the German radio, intimidated into displaying such milk & water slogans as "The Church Must Remain The Church." On election eve Catholic Hitler stepped to the microphone and told 20,000,000 German Protestants how to vote. "A church that is unable to support the state is just as worthless to the state," he shouted, "as a state that does not protect the church is to the church...
...meant nothing except that the Nazis were resolved to win the ballot battle. Up for election were candidates to fill some 400,000 posts as German church elders and board members. All over the Fatherland Nazi intimidation tactics worked. In Munich, Nuremberg and scores of lesser cities the von Bodelschwingh opposition crumpled up completely, agreed to support "fusion lists" of candidates, each packed with a thumping majority of Nazi "German Christians...
...churches in Prussia (stronghold of German Protestantism) to the regulation of the State by the appointment last week of Nazi Herr August Jaeger as Commissioner for the Evangelical Church. This Hitler challenge to Protestantism brought the immediate resignation as Reichsbishof of the Evangelical Church of beloved Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh "Bishop of the Poor" who was elected Reichsbishof only last month by a non-Nazi Protestant majority (TIME, June 12). Last week the Nazi Protestants, organized as the German Christian Church, manifestoed: "Protestants! Our true leader, Adolf Hitler, has expelled your seducers! He, a most devout Christian at heart, would...
...Ludwig Müller. army chaplain and leader of a Nazi organization known as the "German Christians." Despite arguments, pleas and threats, the sober, elderly delegates to the Landes-kirchen stubbornly refused to vote for him, chose as their leader patriarchal Rev. Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh. known throughout Germany as "The Abbot of Bethel" for his management of Bethel Institute, famed charitable organization founded by his father...
Chancellor Hitler at first insisted that he would take no part in a church squabble, but the election of a non-Nazi candidate seemed a dangerous precedent to allow. Church diplomats tried to patch a truce between the German Christians and Bodelschwingherians by suggesting that Bishop von Bodelschwingh might retire after a few months in office in favor of Dr. Müller or a new neutral candidate, possibly Lutheran Bishop Schöffel of Hamburg. Suddenly Chancellor Hitler stepped in. Word was sent to Dr. Müller that the entire Nazi propaganda department, press and radio both, would...