Old Lutherans
The Evangelical Lutheran ( Old Lutheran ) Church was a Lutheran church altkonfessioneller embossing. She had been formed in 1830 under the name " Evangelical Lutheran Church in Prussia " (later " in Old Prussia "). It now belongs to the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Formation
In the Old Lutheran Church those Lutheran congregations in Prussia joined together to form an independent country by Mr. Church, who accepted neither the 1817 union between the Lutheran and Reformed congregations nor the liturgy of the king nor the Union lapel. The presiding pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Prussia was the Breslauer Professor of Theology Johann Gottfried Scheibel.
The 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession, the dispute intensified in 1830 both between the king Friedrich Wilhelm III. as well as the newly formed united Evangelical Church in Prussia. A whereabouts of the Lutheran congregations within the Evangelical Union Church was the Lutheran pastors and their congregations because of the emphasis and the unique selling point of the Evangelical Lutheran confessional writings is not possible, that with the approval of the united regional church was going on, the Prussian state with harsh persecution against the Old Lutherans.
Only in 1841 it was officially condoned, and in 1845 finally recognized by the state under harsh conditions, so that they could establish their own church order. This makes it the oldest Lutheran church in Germany altkonfessionelle. Her limbs were soon referred to by outsiders as " Old Lutherans ". Later it belonged to communities of other countries also in Germany, for example in Nassau ( 1852 ), Baden, Hesse and Hanover. In these countries later formed part of an independent Lutheran churches, such as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Baden from 1865.
The administration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Prussia was for the Upper Church College (older spelling Upper Church Collegium; OKC) in Wroclaw. One of their church leaders clergy was Oberkirchenrat Dr. Günther Walther in Wuppertal -Elberfeld. From 1883 to 1945 the church maintained a theological seminary in Breslau. In 1930 the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Old Prussia was recognized as a public corporation ( KdöR ). In 1954, the Higher Church Council is based in Wuppertal. In 1955 she was called into Evangelical Lutheran ( Old Lutheran ) Church.
The Old Lutheran congregations in the provinces of Pomerania and Posen with about 7,000 members formed at a synod in Bromberg on 13 October 1920, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Poland ( Kościół Ewangelicko - Luterański w Polsce, from 1926 Evangelical Lutheran Church in West Poland / Kościół Ewangelicko - w Polsce Luterański Zachodniej in contrast to the Evangelical Church in Poland), under the spiritual leadership of Superintendent Reinhold Büttner, pastor in Rogasen.
After Breslau had been made after the Second World War under management in Poland, established the Evangelical Lutheran ( Old Lutheran ) Church together with the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church in Oberursel in Hessen own ecclesiastical college, the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Oberursel.
Association for Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church
In the area of the (old ) Federal Republic of Germany, the Evangelical Lutheran ( Old Lutheran ) Church closed in 1972 with other Lutheran churches to the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church ( SELK ) together.
Due to the division of Germany, the churches in the GDR could not participate in that association. Therefore, they initially continued to exist as an independent free church of the same name. This was formed in 1972 with the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church, which was involved in the West also the concentration of SELK, the informal " association of independent Evangelical Lutheran Churches in the GDR." In 1984, the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church in the GDR this cooperation due to theological differences, though again. Having passed through the German reunification no political obstacles more, joined in 1991 by the Evangelical Lutheran ( Old Lutheran ) Church on the territory of the former GDR to the SELK.