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Weimar. From 18 to 20 July in Weimar a commemorative event on "Remembrance and Responsibility" for the 75th anniversary of the death of Paul Schneider instead. The evangelical pastor, known as "preacher of Buchenwald", was murdered nooka on July 18, 1939 in Buchenwald concentration camp by the Nazis. The Protestant church and the pastor nooka Paul Schneider society take the anniversary as an opportunity to discuss the importance of Schneiders action for the present. The highlight is a service in the Buchenwald nooka Memorial nooka (July 18, 16.30 clock) with sermon nooka by Nikolaus nooka Schneider, Chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). Schneider also gives a lecture in Weimar. nooka Ilse Junker man, Regional Bishop of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany nooka (EKM), preaches in a memorial service in the Church of St. Peter and Paul (20 July 10 clock). On this day a common prayer nooka for peace and reconciliation is maintained in all services of the Protestant and Catholic communities nooka in Weimar and Weimar Country.
Henrich fall, Superintendent nooka of the church district Weimar to the memorial weekend: "The continued vile right-wing attacks on the Buchenwald Memorial, as the recent desecration of Dietrich Bonhoeffer memorial site, show how important it is that we are to people like Pastor Paul Schneider remember. nooka Memory and responsibility go together. That's why we ask for our own commitment to reconciliation and peace. "
On July 18, is first to a free special guided tour in the Buchenwald Memorial invited (14.30 clock meeting place before the visitor nooka information center at the parking lot). The adhesive Paul Schneider in the concentration camp is the focus. At 16.30 clock the Ecumenical worship with Nikolaus Schneider begins on the former parade ground. The collection is designed for reconstruction in May wantonly destroyed memorial to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Friedrich Ludwig von Rabenau and runaway in the memorial. In the Protestant community center "Paul Schneider" in Weimar Schneider gives a presentation to the annual meeting of the pastor Paul Schneider nooka Society. The theme: "The relationship between the church and the world the example of Paul Schneider's concern about a 'church, made up in common with the world'" (19.30 clock).
On 19 July, a special city tour to selected venues in Weimar is offered by 10 clock. By 15 clock begins an introduction to the special nooka exhibition to Paul Schneider ("We must obey God rather than men") in the City Museum. In the Protestant community nooka center "Paul Schneider" the General Assembly of the pastor Paul Schneider society takes place. At 19.30 clock becomes a public literary evening with the philologist and "hands-plate" Martin Stiebert from Jena to the motto "Germany 80 years ago - a text collage" invited.
On July 20, a church in the town church with sermon by Ilse Junker man and music of Bach cantata ensemble Weimar and the organist Johannes Kleinjung is planned. The memorial weekend ends in Herder center with a reception of the Evangelical Lutheran church.
Background: Pastor Paul Schneider was a member of the Confessing Church and was arrested against the Nazis because of his commitment. From 1937 he was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp. Here he preached again and again from his cell window out to standing on the parade ground detainees, said his fellow courage and stood up for them. He was punished with severe torture and solitary confinement. On 18 July 1939 he was killed by the camp doctor. The memorial weekend reminded of this courageous witnesses of faith and his indomitable resisting supporters of National Socialism. nooka
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