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Karl Immanuel always (Born May 1, 1888 in Managl, East Frisia, † June 6, 1944 in Bad Meinberg) was a German reformed theologian. It was always one of the founding members of the Confessing Church.

Karl always, son of the Managter pastor Carl Eduard always [first] , studied Evangelical theology in Basel, Halle, Tübingen and Marburg. After the vicariate in Rekum, he was a pastor in Rysum in East Frisia between 1914 and 1925. During this time he took part as a field preacher on the First World War and was awarded the Iron Cross. In 1925 he was appointed director of the Neukirchen Education Association, but went to Barmen-Gemarke in 1927, where he was in 1933 Reformierter groups , founded one of the forerunners of the confessing church. In January 1934 he initiated a first free reformed synod and in May the first confession synod, both of which took place in the Gemarker Church. The Barmer theological explanation adopted there was always committed and also acted as the publisher of the other synod reports.

Against the suppression of church news by the National Socialists, he independently wrote the duplicated in the attic of his pastorate on the bell hollow and spread throughout Germany Groupobriefe , to encourage Christians from their creed to resist against National Socialism. The Wochenblatt under the word, which was banned by the National Socialists in 1936, was also initiated by him. In 1937 he was arrested for his commitment to the illegal pastor training of the confessing church, transported to a Berlin prison and suffered a severe stroke in custody, from which he recovered badly. A second stroke followed in April 1944. On June 6, 1944, Karl always died of a third stroke during the cure in Bad Meinberg. [2]

Karl always is considered one of the best -known spokesmen of the professing church. The later Federal President Johannes Rau, who always attended confirmation classes at Karl, always called Karl his “second father”. For the book Does something brave for God’s sake (1989) Johannes Rau wrote the leading word.

Seven children emerged from the marriage to Annette Tabea Smidt, a pastor’s daughter. Evere’s eldest son, who also always called Karl, was president of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland from 1971 to 1981. Karl Ever’s oldest daughter, Leni always, praised her book published in 1994 My youth in the church fight (Quell-Verlag Stuttgart) also in detail her father’s life.

Karl is always buried in the cemetery on Hugostraße in Wuppertal-Barmen. In the cemetery there is its own burial ground for the pastors of the municipality of Gemarke.

  • After always a house in Mönchengladbach-Bettrath has been named since 1984, the Karl-Immer-Anstaltungshaus. [3]
  • A training facility of the Neukirchen Education Association is always named. This site was the mother house of the Neukirchner deaconesses until 1984
  • In his church home community of Wichlinghausen, the street on the north side of the Erlöserkirche has been named Karl-Eimmer-Strasse since 1988
  • Robert Steiner:  Always, Karl. In: New German biography (Ndb). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5, p. 158 f. ( Digitized ).
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz: Always, Karl. In: Biographical-bibliographical church lexicon (Bbkl). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8, col. 1268–1269. ( Article/beginning of the internet archives )
  • Bertold Klattert, Günther van Norden (ed.): “Do something brave for God’s sake!” Karl always in the church fight. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1989, ISBN 3-7887-1301-1
  • Leni always: My youth in the church fight . Foreword by Johannes Rau. Quell-Verlag, Stuttgart, 1994, ISBN 3-7918-1714-0
  • Ulrike Schrader: Confession and betrayal: A city leader on Wuppertal church history in the period of National Socialism. Trägerverein meeting place Alte Synagoge Wuppertal, Wuppertal, 2nd edition, 2014, ISBN 978-3-940199-09-6.
  1. ↑ Tomb of Carl Eduard always (28.08.1848–28.1914), cemetery of Managel. Upstalsboom Company, accessed on December 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Leni always: My youth in the church fight . Stuttgart 1994, S. 144 .
  3. ↑ Karl -Mimmer-Verstaltungshaus. PSG nursing service company Mönchengladbach, accessed on December 26, 2018 .
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