NSA:Germany and Austria
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 NSA of Germany and Austria in the mid-1930's.
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| History: | ||
| - | Established | 1922 |
| - | Preceded | Germany (1959) |
| - | Preceded | Austria (1959) |
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The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Germany and Austria was the administrative body for the Bahá’í communities of Germany and Austria.
Formed[edit]
In 1907, the "Bahá'i Bund Stuttgart" (i.e. Bahá'í community) had been founded with the "Arbeitsausschuss" as their representative body, comprising all Bahá'í in Germany with the main focus on Stuttgart in the very early years. In 1918 this body passed theri own constitution.
In April 1922, Shoghi Effendi called representatives to Haifa from the US, India and Burma, and Germany for a consultative talk on establishing National Spiritual Assemblies in each region. As a result the first National Spiritual Assembly of Germany was elected in September 1922.[1] The official year of establishment of the Assembly reported by Shoghi Effendi was 1923.
On the sixth of July 1934 the National Spiritual Assembly of Germany was renamed the National Spiritual Assembly of Germany and Austria. In 1935 the National Spiritual Assembly of Germany and Austria passed its own constitution at the request of Shoghi Effendi. As there ought to be one constitution, only, for any National Spiritual Assembly, the US-template had been copied and put in place for this purpose.
In June 1937 the National Spiritual Assembly dissolved itself due to the orders of the prohibition of the Bahá'ì Faith in Germany by Heinrich Himmler. The Bahá'í Faith was permitted in Germany again following the overthrow of the Nazi regime in May 1945, but the Assembly was not re-established until April 1946.[2][3]
In 1948 the DDR forbade the Bahá'í Faith in the German Russian sector. Though the Assembly continued to have jurisdiction over all Germany, this prohibition left the American, Dutch, British, and French sector as the areas where the National Spiritual Assembly could act. In the same year, the National Spiritual Assembly passed a "Geschäftsordnung" - a preliminary constitution which lasted till 1950 before it was superseded by another constitution together with a Declaration of Trust. This again was updated in 1967.
In 1959 Austria established an independent National Spiritual Assembly, relieving Germany of the responsibility for administrating the Faith in that country.
1990 was the year of re-unification, so the National Spiritual Assembly of Germany has been in put in aposition to act frely within theese borders.
In 1997, there had been a case closed by the German Federal Court on the constitution in place. The outcome of this was that in 2013 the German National Spiritual Assembly has been awarded by the German government the status of a Körperschaft des Öffentlichem Rechts (K.d.Ö.R.).
Past members[edit]
| Name | Served
(either period starts with April and ends with March in a year) |
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| Albert Schwarz | 1922 - 1931 |
| Hugo Bender | 1922 - 1926 |
| Alice Schwarz-Solivo | 1922 - 1937 |
| Arthur Brauns | 1922 - 1925 |
| Julius Brückner | 1922 - 1933 |
| Paul Gollmer | 1922 - 1936 1946 - 1951 |
| Wilhelm Herrigel | 1922 - 1928 |
| Anna Köstlin | 1922 - 1937 |
| Adelheid (Koller)-Jäger | 1922 - 1924 1946 - 1954 |
| Hermann Grossmann | 1924 - 1937 1946 - 1947 |
| Adelbert Mühlschlegel | 1924 - 1929 1934 - 1937 1946 - 1948 1951 - 1959 |
| Luce Polin | 1925 - 1926 |
| Eduard Schäfer | 1925 - 1927 |
| Otto Geldreich | 1925 - 1926 |
| Edith Horn | 1926 - 1936 |
| Karl Schweizer | 1927 - 1933 1936 - 1937 |
| Marta Brauns-Forel | 1929 - 1937 1946 - 1947 |
| Theo Lehne | 1931 - 1933 |
| Berta Bopp | 1932 - 1933 |
| Eugen Schmidt | 1932 - 1937 1948 - 1959 |
| Max Greeven | 1934 - 1937 |
| Anna Grossmann | 1936 - 1937 1948 - 1959 |
| Alfred Kohler | 1946 - 1949 |
| Eugen Knorr | 1946 - 1947 |
| Marta Weiss | 1946 - 1947 |
| Günter Heyd | 1948 - 1952 |
| Albrecht Nagel | 1948 - 1951 |
| Adolf Spieth | 1948 - 1952 |
| Julius Henseler | 1949 - 1955 |
| Ruprecht Krüger | 1949 - 1959 |
| Hedwig (Hede) Schubert | ???? - 1948 |
| Johanna von Werthern | 1950 - 1956 |
| Erik Blumenthal | 1955 - 1959[4] |
| Martin Aiff | 1957 - 1959[5] |
References[edit]
- ↑ Sonne der Wahrheit‘, 1922-1923, Vol. 2. No 07, p. 110; Vol. 2. No 08, p. 124f.; Vol. 2. No 09, p. 141ff.
- ↑ Baha'i News (September, 1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 187, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
- ↑ https://bahai-library.com/achievements_victories_guardianship
- ↑ https://news.bahai.org/story/315/
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2002). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 29 (2000-2001), Pg(s) 267. View as PDF.
