Confessing Church
As a gesture of reconciliation the state ecclesiastical committee for the "Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union" legitimised all ordinations and examinations of the "Confessing Church" retroactively for the time from 1 January 1934 to 30 November 1935. Nevertheless, the "Confessing Church" refused to accept the new examination office of the state ecclesiastical committee. But Künneth (Inner Mission) and a number of renowned professors of the Frederick William University of Berlin, who worked for the "Confessing Church" before, declared their readiness to collaborate with the committee, to wit Prof. Alfred Bertholet, Gustav Adolf Deissmann (Volkskirchlich-Evangelische Vereinigung; VEV.), Hans Lietzmann, Wilhelm Lütgert, and .