Students at the Preacher’s Seminary Struggle Over Their Future

After the students at Finkenwalde heard the news that their seminary was “illegal”, they had to struggle over what to do in regard to their future…

…personal conflicts over the question of personal futures became more urgent, and they were bound up with the question what the church was and what it was not.

The church committees claimed to have restored the “church of the people.”  They offered the candidates of the preaching seminaries “legalization,” and thus employment as pastors, provided that they would submit to examination by the church consistory (Renate Wind, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Spoke in the Wheel, 105).