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West German Mission

In 1939, the West German Mission consisted of 13 districts with 78 branches and approximately 5,900 members. The mission home was located at Schaumainkai 41, on the south bank of the Main River in downtown Frankfurt. The building still stands. In the fall of 1938, Austria was annexed to the West German Mission, having been in the Swiss-Austrian Mission since 1 January of that year. M. Douglas Wood was serving as mission president, but left the country with his American missionaries in August 1939. He was succeeded by Friedrich Biehl of Essen, who was killed in 1943. Christian Heck was the next mission leader, but he perished in Southwest Germany in April 1945. Anton Huck was the leader of the West German Mission when World War II came to a close.

Districts and Branches
in the West German Mission

Bielefeld
Bielefeld
Herford
Minden
Muenchhagen
Stadthagen

Bremen
Bremen
Wesermünde-Lehe
Wilhelmshaven

Frankfurt
Bad Homburg
Darmstadt
Frankfurt am Main
Mainz
Michelstadt
Offenbach

Hamburg
Altona
Barmbeck
Glückstadt
Lübeck
Stade
St. Georg

Hannover
Braunschweig
Celle
Goettingen
Hannover
Kassel
Ülzen
Goslar

Karlsruhe
Bühl
Durlach
Karlsruhe
Mannheim
Pforzheim
Saabrücken
Worms

München
Augsburg
Frankenburg
Haag
München
Salzburg

Nürnberg
Coburg
Fürth
Nürnberg

Ruhr
Benrath
Bochum
Buer
Dortmund
Düsseldorf
Essen
Herne
Köln
Oberhausen
Wuppertal - Barmen
Wuppertal - Elberfeld

Schleswig - Holstein
Flensburg
Friedrich Stadt
Kiel
Rendsburg

Stuttgart
Esslingen
Feuerbach
Göppingen
Heilbronn
Reutlingen
Stuttgart

Weimar
Erfurt
Gera
Gotha
Nordhausen
Weimar

Vienna
Linz
Vienna

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