RT Article
T1 The 1933 German Protestant Church Elections: Machtpolitik or Accommodation?
JF Church history
VO 49
IS 3
SP 298
OP 315
A1 Baranowski, Shelley
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 1980
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1779567618
AB On 23 July 1933, the pro-Nazi German Christian movement won a stunning victory in the elections for representatives to local parish councils of the German Evangelical Church. In many areas, especially north and eastern Germany where the National Socialist party itself was strongest, the German Christians attracted as much as 75 percent of the vote. The Old Prussian Union church, which embraced most of the political unit of Prussia, felt the effects most profoundly. Upon filling the higher synods after the parish elections, the German Christians were the majority in seven of eight provincial representative bodies. Only the provincial synod in Westphalia retained a non-German Christian majority. Yet this resulted less from a lack of a strong German Christian following in the parishes than from an intentionally undemocratic filtering system that protected higher synods from the Nazi sympathizers.
DO 10.2307/3164452