Word: kirchentag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capacity as front man, Ulbricht was providing a foretaste of harassments to come if the West refused to knuckle under. Among his chosen victims: Germany's Evangelical Church, which had arranged to hold their traditional annual Kirchentag this year in Berlin. Ulbricht's men denied transit for twelve special trains the church had chartered to bring delegates to West Berlin. A Communist official stopped East German Bishop Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher, refused to let him proceed to Berlin. Church officials planned to hold part of the rally in East Berlin; Ulbricht vetoed...
...Meeting in West Berlin's Spandau Johannesstift Building, the synod's 79 West German and 41 East German delegates had ample provocation to slap back at the Reds by choosing Lilje. The East German regime had just announced that no sessions of the annual Protestant rally, called Kirchentag, could be held in East Berlin next July, and had stopped Bishop Lilje and four other West German bishops on their way to a Sunday service at the Marienkirche. But the delegates decided that the immediate pleasure of electing Bishop Lilje might be offset by Communist reprisals during...
...vigorous anti-Nazi during the Hitler regime, Curt Scharf, 58, was arrested numerous times and was rarely allowed to write or preach. Since 1945, he has been chairman of the Brandenburg Synod and is well known throughout Germany for his work in preparing the Kirchentag staged by the Evangelical Church to draw Protestants from all over the country...