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Jul 22, 2009 · In the summer of 1939, Sommer strung up Pastor Schneider in his cell for several days, as if crucified. At that time, a fellow-prisoner, observing him, thought of the prophet Isaiah: He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
Oct 28, 2017 · Schneider, like Martin Niemöller and Bonhoeffer himself, were members of the Confessing Church, pastors who would not bow the knee to Nazism, but confessed allegiance to Christ at any cost. And Schneider was the first of them to seal his gospel witness with his blood.
On a January morning in 1939, when two prisoners who had excaped and been captured were murdered in the dell block, Schneider called out during the roll call “In the name of Jesus Christ, I bear witness to the murder of the prisoners,” before he was silenced and subjected to a new round of beatings.7 The Konsistorium proceeded to formerly ...
Arrest and imprisonment. In spring 1937, with the support of members of his presbytery, Pastor Schneider began the process of excommunicating parishioners who, because of their allegiance to the Nazi Party, engaged in conduct which violated congregational discipline.
Apr 1, 2010 · Paul Schneider, pastor of two small Reformed Church congregations at Dickensheid and Womrath, believed that the state’s demands that the Church submit to the Aryan laws constituted an abandonment of the Gospel.
Jan 30, 2014 · Pastor Paul Schneider, (1897 – 1939) an evangelical minister became the first Protestant minister to be martyred by the Nazis. He refused to salute Hitler on his birthday in 1938 and endured many brutal months of mistreatment in Buchenwald before dying following torture.
Jul 18, 2016 · After being sentenced to solitary confinement, he preached the good news of the Gospel from the window of his prison cell. He was moved to the cell when he refused to remove his beret in honour of Hitler on the Führer's birthday, April 20, 1938 and to salute the swastika flag.
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