Karl John Richard Arndt (1903-1991) Papers

The collection contains a historical review of the Bad Boll Conferences of 1948 and many files from his service in the Education and Religious Affairs Branch of the Department of Church and State Affairs of the U.S. Military Government for Germany, Wuerttemberg. The files are arranged as they were received from Arndt.

Box 1

• Father Divine
• Fritz, Rudolf J.
• Frommer – continuous/suspense
• Frommer
• Reports of Germans
• Reports – Incoming, German, Confidential
• Reports – Clergy (requested by intelligence)
• Wine (Sacramental)
• Historical Report
• Dangler
• Gersdont, F
• Archbishop of Freiburg
• Miscellaneous Reports
• Reports, Semi-monthly, Religious Affairs
• Daily Reports, their division
• Pastoral letters
• Clergy in Politics
• Population in Germany
• Press on M. G.
• Evangelical Press
• U. S. (and other) Press on Pastoral Letters and Military Government
• POW’s Release
• German Projects Request – rejected
• Protests – Unofficial
• Radio
• Reports – Weekly (Religious Affairs Branch – Dr. Arndt)
• Reports – Annual
• Reports – Quarterly – this headquarters
• Reports, Daily – their division
• Daily Activities Report (Religious Affairs Branch)
• Loose items
• Reports, H. I.
• Operations Report
• Military Government
• Civil Internees
• Evangelical Church Letter to Hitler

Box 2

• Complaints — vies M. G.
• Weekly Report – Restricted
• Dr. Arndt – Reports
• Appreciation of M. G.
• G-1 German Affairs
• Confidential – Misc. Intercepts
• German Agency for Notification of War Deaths of Members of Armed Forces
• Jewish Restitution Succ Committee
• Military Government – Organization
• Nestle’s New Testament
• Prof. Gerhard Kittel
• Jäger, Robert
• Herrmann, Friedrich
• Haug, Martin
• Eichele, Dr. Erich Karl
• Dölker, Hans
• Diem and Denazification
• Denazification – German Law 104
• Denazification – Reports on
• Protests on Denazification – rejected
• Denazification – Law and Directives
• Denazification – German Law 104, Objections to
• Frustra
• Gedat, Gustav Adolf
• Gerstenmaier
• Kuhn
• Krüger
• Konkordat
• Konkordat – Baden
• Kloss
• Hohoff
• Important Announcements
• Denazification Statement, Stuttgart, 6 Feb. ’48 – Ev. Bishops
• Denazification – Statement, Ev. Church of Hesse
• Denazification – General
• Denazification – of Clergy
• Denazification – Gen Adcock’s Order on Clergy
• Denazification – re: Spruchkammer
• Denazification – Press on
• Gellichsheimer, Gustav
• Gerber, Heinrich
• Griasch, Wilhelm
• Griesebach, Manfred
• Grieb, Siegfried G.
• Griesinger, Karl
• Grishkat, Hans
• Happach
• Hartmann, Helmut
• Hauff, Karl Eugen
• Herman
• Herterich, Eugen
• Hirtenbviet (?) – Freiburg
• Kittel, Gerhard
• Kochendörfer, Otto
• Kraft, Adolf
• Krumm, Ernst
• Lempp, Wilhelm
• Le Seur, Eduard
• Le Seur, Eduard (2)
• Lauster
• Leffler, Siegfried

Box 3

• Magnani, Heinrich
• Meiser, D.
• Michael, Brother (Oskar)
• Niebuhr, Reinhold
• Niemöller, Martin
• Nürnberg
• Nürnberg Meeting Dec 1–2, 1948
• Nürnberg Meeting Feb 10–11
• Objectives (see also “Reports” and “Berlin Functional”)
• Table of Organization
• Catholic Pastoral Letters (US) and important statements
• Telephone
• Travel Orders – this immediate office
• Thielicke (Helmut) see Diem; see Niebuhr
• Transportation
• Reorientation, fiscal year 1949-50
• Reports (objectives)
• Reports
• Statistics (see also Population)
• Stuttgart Meeting – Ev Luth Com Oct. 18, 1945
• Suspense
• Telephone Conferences
• Telephone – Berlin, US FET
• Pfleiderer, Martin
• Rauser, Georg
• School – Reform
• Loose items
• Schuder, Kurt
• Maria Schurr
• Sewall
• Spruckhkammerverfahren
• Envelope of news clippings – subject ??
• Verschiedenes
• Visions
• Visitors from America
• Visitors
• Freie – Waldorfschule
• Wurm – Misc.
• Magazines (loose)
• Weihnachtsbitte
• Wurmi’s Oberkirchenrat
• Wurm
• U. S. Military Govt.

Box 4

• Asmussen, Hans
• Sazietät versus Asmussen
• Anthroposophische Gemeinde
• Bad Boll
• Bergmann, Erich
• Functional Program and OMGUS
• Besatzung Statut
• Bethel Conference
• Birkenmayer
• Bibelanstalt, Stuttgart, Priveleg Württ
• Breitbach
• Chichester, Bishop of
• Bachteler, Pfarrer
• Barmen – Bekenntnis
• Barth, Karl
• Deutsches Ausland – Institut
• Dibelius, Bishop
• Diem, Hermann
• Dittus, Gottlieb
• Eisenacher Church Conference
• Emergency Planning Council – Ev Luth Synod of MO, OH and Other States – Lorry Meyer
• Missouri Synod (Lutheran)
• Ev Luth Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States
• Ev Luth Freikirche UAC
• Extraneous
• Complaints
• Constitution
• Weimer Constitution
• Constitution, W. B. – Draft and Religious Affairs Comments
• Crimes
• Dawson
• Action Sheets – Miscl
• Denazification Directive 23 Jan. 1946
• Deutsche Christen
• Deutsche Christen – Intercepts
• Deutsche Christian – New
• Deutsche Christian
• German Christians
• Christian Gemeinschaft (Pfingst Bewegung)
• Christian Gemeinschaft
• Einung, Christl Volkskirche (LeSeur)
• Kirchlich – Theologische Sozätät in Würtenburg: Kirche und ???
• Christian Century
• Church Leaders – Secret Reports on
• Würtemburg – Church/State Rel.
• Action on Dismissal of Clergymen Jan. 10, 1946
• M. G. – Publications
• Hahnische Gemeinschaft
• S S Report on Churches – secret
• Metzger, Dr. Wolfgang
• Moser, Willi Ernst
• Müller, Dr. Eberhard
• Müller, Dr. Manfred
• Neidhard, Johannes
• Niemoeller – Denazification
• Offenhauser, Gottfried
• Oloff, Werner
• Ostmann, Dr. Hans
• Paulus, Immanuel
• Pressel, Wilhelm
• Rothweiler, Helmut
• Sautter, Reinhold
• Schaal, Adolf
• Schaibel, Hans Dieter
• Schairer, Adolf
• Schauffler, Dr. Gerhard
• Schlatter, Theodor
• Schick, Gotthilf
• Schliesser, Emil
• Schlumberger, Friedrich
• Schlumberger, Friedrich (2)
• Schmidt, Otto
• Seibert, Hellmuth
• Seiz, Karl Otto Friedrich
• Staiger, Hugo
• Steinmaier, Albert
• Stroebel, Kurt
• Stoehrer, Hermann
• Vöhringer, Dr. Gotthilf
• Wagner, Gerhard
• Suspense – LeSeur
• Weber, Dr. Rudolph
• Wehrhahn, Dr. Herbert
• Wiedenmann, Erwin
• Widmann, Karl
• Wirzing, Fritz
• Wurst, Gotthilf Eberhard
• Wurm to M. G. on Denazification
• Zügel, Karl Gottlob