Denomination
Lutheran
The Lutheran tradition encompasses the Evangelical-Lutheran state churches of Germany and Scandinavia, the Lutheran World Federation member churches across Africa and Asia, and the conservative confessional Lutheran bodies in North America (LCMS, WELS). The umbrella German Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD) is technically a union of Lutheran, Reformed, and United bodies, but it is treated here as Lutheran-anchored because the predominant constituent tradition is Lutheran.
The Lutheran entries currently in this archive concern the Cold War — specifically the documented Stasi infiltration of the East German EKD, anchored in the BStU file releases of the 1990s. The post-Reformation Lutheran territorial churches' role in continental witch panics (especially Saxony and Württemberg in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) is within scope and pending writeup.
Filed
1 entries- 1950–1989 Stasi Infiltration of the East German Lutheran Churches The East German Ministry for State Security operated extensive agent networks within the EKD-bloc Evangelical-Lutheran churches throughout the 1950–1989 period; the BStU archive opening after 1990 made the operation publicly documentable down to individual *Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter* identities.