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Church-State Relations in East Germany: Expanding Dimensions of an Unresolved Problem

Church-State Relations in East Germany: Expanding Dimensions of an Unresolved Problem GEORGE A. GLASS (Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany) Church-State Relations in East Germany: Expanding Dimensions of an Unresolved Problem Studies of church-state relations in Eastern Europe have almost always drawn their substance and examples from Poland or Hungary, where substan- tial numbers of Catholics have tended to make their views visible. However, in recent years a number of interesting and important events have taken place in the area of church-state relations in East Germany, and these have led to much speculation and controversy in both East and West Germany. On 18 August 1976, Rev. Oskar Bruesewitz committed suicide, leading to a national controversy over the reasons. In 1977 the East German Protestant Church finally got its special building program under way whereby more than 100 church buildings would be constructed by 1980. On 6 March 1978, the chair- man of the Council of State and General Secretary of the Communist Party, Erich Honecker, met with Bishop Albrecht Schoenherr, director of the Con- ference of the Protestant Church Direction in the GDR, and with other church leaders. This meeting was unprecedented in the GDR and, in spite of clearly serving church interests, has also unleashed controversy about church integrity http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png East Central Europe Brill

Church-State Relations in East Germany: Expanding Dimensions of an Unresolved Problem

Glass, George A.
East Central Europe , Volume 6 (1): 232 – Jan 1, 1979
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© 1979 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0094-3037
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GEORGE A. GLASS (Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany) Church-State Relations in East Germany: Expanding Dimensions of an Unresolved Problem Studies of church-state relations in Eastern Europe have almost always drawn their substance and examples from Poland or Hungary, where substan- tial numbers of Catholics have tended to make their views visible. However, in recent years a number of interesting and important events have taken place in the area of church-state relations in East Germany, and these have led to much speculation and controversy in both East and West Germany. On 18 August 1976, Rev. Oskar Bruesewitz committed suicide, leading to a national controversy over the reasons. In 1977 the East German Protestant Church finally got its special building program under way whereby more than 100 church buildings would be constructed by 1980. On 6 March 1978, the chair- man of the Council of State and General Secretary of the Communist Party, Erich Honecker, met with Bishop Albrecht Schoenherr, director of the Con- ference of the Protestant Church Direction in the GDR, and with other church leaders. This meeting was unprecedented in the GDR and, in spite of clearly serving church interests, has also unleashed controversy about church integrity

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Published: Jan 1, 1979

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