Confessing Church - Demographics

Demographics

The following numbers (as of January 1933 unless otherwise stated) are an aid in understanding the political and theological developments discussed in this article.

• Number of Protestants in Germany: 45 million
• Number of free church Protestants: 150,000
• Largest regional Protestant church: Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union (German: Evangelische Kirche der altpreußischen Union), with 18 million members the church strongest in members in the country at the time
• Number of Protestant pastors: 18,000

• Number of these strongly adhering to German Christian faction as of 1935: 3000
• Number of these strongly adhering to Confessing Church faction as of 1935: 3000

• Number of these arrested during 1935: 700

• Number of these not closely affiliated with or adhering to either faction: 12,000

• Total population of Germany: 65 million
• Number of Jews in Germany: 525,000