Corporate Christian Nationalism: Konrad Möckel and the Saxon National Socialists of Romania. An Interpretative Essay. Part Two
Corporate Christian Nationalism: Konrad Möckel and the Saxon National Socialists of Romania. An Interpretative Essay. Part Two

Summary/Abstract: The “Struggle for Power,” the Erosion of the Political Neutrality of the Folk Church, and Its Consequent Rupture, 1936 Continued from ZfSL 33 (2010), 1, pp. 63-88. Bishop Viktor Glondys had tried to guide his church around the shoals of political partisanship. His effort, however, largely miscarried in 1936 as the new radical Nazi party mounted attacks on church leaders. The radicals had their clerical sympathizers follow a strategy of passive aggression, one that exhausted the patience of their perceptive bishop. They acted to undermine his authority as well as the confession of their church while professing fidelity to both when called to account. Their frustrated opponents in the Superior Church Consistory resolved to strike back against such subversive subterfuge. Konrad Möckel left his earlier reserve to skewer the radicals for their assaults. For his part, Glondys felt constrained to institute disciplinary proceedings against pastors sympathetic to the radicals even though he suspected that the new party might retaliate.

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