Bericht des Central-Ausschusses für Innere Mission

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Bericht des Central-Ausschusses für die Innere Mission der Deutschen Evangelischen Kirche Berlin-Dahlem, 1. 1849/52 (1853) – 65. 1927/30 (1931)

(1. 1849/52 (1853): Bericht über die Wirksamkeit des Central-Ausschusses für die Innere Mission der Deutschen Evangelischen Kirche; 61. 1919: Bericht über die Wirksamkeit des Central-Ausschusses für die Innere Mission der Deutschen Evangelischen Kirche)

(Social Welfare; 4)

5,120 pages on 79 microfiches
2004, ISBN 3-89131-458-2

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In 1848 the work of the, up till then, separate institutions and organisations for inner mission were, for the first time, gathered together in one central place with the establishment of the Central Committee (Central-Ausschuß (CA)) for the Inner Mission of the German German Protestant Church. The aims, which the CA set itself, were the advancement of existing social-missionary initiatives and the stimulation of new ones within the whole German speaking protestant area. This generally recognised function brought with it the fact that the, since 1853 biannual and as of 1865 annual, published reports of the activities of the CA were more than just formal accounts of the committee. They are however also just that and in their formal exactness they present an unusually valuable information-pool of data, the development of procedures, place and personal names in the work of the CA. Beyond this they also offer each year an actual overview of the development of the many sided areas of work in the inner mission, sometimes illustratively supported by statistics. Through this it becomes clear how the Central-Committee stimulated and established new areas of work, for example in prisons, seaman’s missions and Christian publicity, and then finally handed over the responsibility for them to newly founded specialist organisations. Detailed sections deal above all with the beginnings of work abroad of the inner mission in North America, the European Diaspora and later in the German «protectorates». At the beginning the reports are more than 150 pages long, reduce then to 60 pages before settling down to about 100 pages by the First World War. The publication of these activity reports ceased as a result of the extensive changes during the Weimar Republic.