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Scharf, Kurt

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Personal name headingScharf, Kurt
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Associated countryGermany
Associated placeBerlin (Germany)
Birth date1902-10-21
Death date1990-03-28
Place of birthLandsberg an der Warthe (Germany)
Place of deathBerlin (Germany)
AffiliationEvangelische Kirche in Berlin-Brandenburg
Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland. Rat
Bekennende Kirche
Profession or occupationBishops
Found inVogel, Heinrich. Männer der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland, 1962.
Streit mit der Macht, 1983: title page (Kurt Scharf) title page verso (born October 21, 1902, in Landsberg an der Warthe (now Gorzów Wielkopolski in Poland); Bischof i.R. [im Ruhestand] Kurt Scharf)
Eber, Anselm. Ernst Pepping, 2010: page 512 (Scharf, Kurt; born October 21, 1902, in Landsberg an der Warthe; died March 28, 1990, Berlin)
German Wikipedia, viewed April 28, 2020 (Kurt Scharf; born October 21, 1902, in Landsberg/Warthe; died March 28, 1990, in Berlin; Lutheran bishop; he was bishop of the Evangelische Kirche in Berlin-Brandenburg and chief councillor (Ratsvorsitzender) of the Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland; during the Hitler regime, he was a member of the Bekennende Kirche; he was at times forbidden to speak in public or to publish and was imprisoned by the Gestapo for a brief period; he served as Ratsvorsitzender of the Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland from 1961 to 1967; in 1961, East Germany stripped him of his East German citizenship)
Associated languageger