The Provisional Board.
Dr. Bärwinkel, Pastor in Erfurt. Doctor of Divinity Beyschlag, Professor in Halle. Doctor of Divinity Fricke, Professor in Leipzig.
Goebel, Consistorial Councilor in Halle. Doctor of Divinity Kawerau, Professor in Kiel.
Lenschner, Consistorial Councilor in Merseburg, Provisional Secretary. Doctor of Divinity Lipsius, Professor in Jena.
Doctor of Divinity Niemann, Consistorial Councilor in Münster. Doctor of Divinity Nippold, Professor in Jena.
Doctor of Divinity Riehm, Professor in Halle. Government Privy Councilor v. Voß in Halle.
Doctor of Divinity Warneck, Pastor in Rothenschirmbach.
Count v. Wintzingerode-Bodenstein, Provisional Chairman.
Witte, Professor and ecclesiastic Inspector in Schulpforte.
Source: Evangelischer Bund zur Wahrung der deutsch-protestantischen Interessen [Protestant League for the Protection of German-Protestant Interests], “An unsere Glaubensgenossen in ganz Deutschland!” [“To our Co-Religionists in All of Germany!”], Archiv des Konfessionskundlichten Instituts des Evangelischen Bundes [Archive of the Denominational Research Institute of the Protestant League], Bensheim, p. 500.9.125, Protestant League. Reich Agency.
Statistics on Protestant League Membership
Year | Membership |
1887 | 10,000 |
1888 | 37,000 |
1889 | 60,430 |
1891 | 82,978 |
1902 | 156,000 |
1906 | 328,322 |
1910 | 400,593 |
1912 | 485,753 |
1913 | 510,000 |
Source: Herbert Gottwald, “Evangelischer Bund zur Wahrung der deutsch-protestantischen Interessen (EB) 1886-1945” [“Protestant League for the Protection of German-Protestant Interests (EB) 1886-1945”], in Dieter Fricke, et al., eds., Lexikon zur Parteiengeschichte 1789-1945 [Encyclopedia of Party History], 4 vols. Leipzig, 1983-1986, vol. 2, pp. 580-87, here p. 581.
Translation: Erwin Fink