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Letter from Bishop Hans-Otto Wölber to Senator Helmut Schmidt, Hamburg, May 13, 1964
https://dx.doi.org/10.23691/jgo:source-110.en.v1
Hans-Otto Wölber
Institute for the History of the German Jews
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This source consists of four machine typed letters of one or two pages
dating from the period between April and August 1964. A fifth and last
letter that contained selected press articles was sent in September
1964. Copies are kept in two locations: the Helmut Schmidt archive at
the Archiv der sozialen Demokratie, Bonn and in the files of Bishop
Hans-Otto Wölber at the Landeskirchliches Archiv der
Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Norddeutschland (Nordkirche) at
Kiel (signature 11.02 Bischof für Hamburg).
In the spring of 1964, Helmut Schmidt, Social Democrat and Senator for
Interior Affairs in the city state of Hamburg, who also served as a
board member to the Society of Christian-Jewish Cooperation
Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit in Hamburg,
learned that the local Protestant church was engaged in missionary
work among Jews. This was cause for concern for both Schmidt and the
Jewish community. He contacted the Protestant-Lutheran Bishop of
Hamburg, Dr. Hans-Otto Wölber, personally in order to gather
information on the matter and expressed his criticism of missionary
work of any kind among Jews.
2016-09-22