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believing its aspirations of spreading its influence or conquering the west would entail the deprivation of rights and freedoms of
Germans and Christians. He therefore believed nuclear weapons might be needed to deter this and that it was not the place of the Church to denounce the NATO government's
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decreed any training and tutelage of young theologians was prohibited for non-party clergy. Asmussen was a signatory of the
Evangelical Church memorandum in the spring of 1936 and held a memorial service on 19 February 1937 at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp for the murdered chief legal advisor
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in the story. It denounced Hitler's use of the event for political gain and stated that the Church was not sided with the
National Socialists, nor did it side with the Communists. It declared that no political party could claim to be ruled by the word of God. Its mission was also to bring both sides
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Through us infinite wrong was brought over many peoples and countries. That which we often testified to in our communities, we express now in the name of the whole church: We did fight for long years in the name of Jesus Christ against the mentality that found its awful expression in the
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Chairman of the Council of the EKD brotherhood. When church leaders held a conference in Treysa (today Schwalm City) in August 1945, he represented the emerging Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and was elected to head the church office, which he built at his home in
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Josef Außermair: "Concreteness and form. "Corporeality" as an essential element of a sacramental understanding of the church by the example of the ecclesiological approaches Paul
Tillich, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans Asmussen ecumenical aspect".
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Schwäbisch Gmünd. After the surrender of Nazi
Germany, he sought to publicly apologize on behalf of all Evangelical Christians for the complicity of much of the clergy to the Nazi regime. Drafted by Asmussen and Martin Niemöller, a written
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Provisional church leadership, Friedrich Weissler. In 1939, a wide-ranging speech and sermon ban was imposed on Asmussen and other non-state clergy, who were on the lists of BK for the persecuted Christians.
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particularly with the Darmstadt edict of 1947. In 1948 he was relieved of his post as president of the church office and not re-elected on the Council of the EKD. From 1949 to 1955 he was a provost in Kiel.
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Socialist regime of violence; but we accuse ourselves for not standing to our beliefs more courageously, for not praying more faithfully, for not believing more joyously, and for not loving more ardently.
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In the 1950s Asmussen, who had also become a member of the CDU, criticized the Church's stance against nuclear weapons; a widely held view among the church. Asmussen was highly critical of the
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and used the incident to spark more demonstrations. Asmussen wrote letters to the Nazi party and Hitler himself first begging for them to end the violence, later denouncing their action.
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In 1935 Asmussen founded, and was the director for, the Church University of Berlin-Dahlem which was opened on 1 November 1935 where he taught Practical Theology. However, in 1937
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Asmussen was one of the main authors of a piece published on January 11, 1933 from Altona pastors stressing their concern with the affairs of Germany, which became known as the
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until 1917. It was then his eldest brother was killed in the war, and he enlisted in the army. After serving until the war's end, he went on to study
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sentenced on 22 December 1941 by the Berlin Special Court I to imprisonment. In 1943 Bishop Theophil Wurm brought him into the Württemberg church.
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and took over leading functions in September 1933 of the Pastors out Confessing Church. He belonged to the Reich Fraternal Council, and along with
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Hitler soon rose to power and intended to consolidate the German clergy into a single Church that supported the Nazi party. He established the
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Roland Hosselmann: "Turning to cultic ontology in the concern of salvation. A controversial theological memory of Hans Asmussen".
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to peace and resolve their conflicts without violence. This declaration is considered a harbinger of the later and more famous
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Gerhard Besier: "The debate between Karl Barth and Hans Asmussen - a paradigm for religious issues within Protestantism?" In:
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church, Asmussen, as its avowed opponent, was suspended and sent into early retirement in 1934. Asmussen moved to
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In 1921, he became vicar and later curate at the Deaconess House in Flensburg. In 1925, he took a pastorate in
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Wolfgang Prehn: Time to walk the narrow way. Witnesses report from the church struggle in Schleswig-Holstein
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Asmussen received honorary doctorates from the universities of St. Andrews in 1939 and Kiel in 1949.
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incident on July 17, 1932 where eighteen people were killed in street fighting between the
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declared that the Nazi dead were "Christian martyrs", released a pamphlet titled
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Aufgabe und Weg der Kirchlichen Hochschule Berlin 1935-1955
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Konfessionskundliche and controversial theological studies
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Paradoxes of Peace: German Peace Movements Since 1945
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