GERMANY, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
(See also Evangelical Church in Germany)
(Note centered heading below: Jehovah’s Witnesses)
abortion: g 10/12 29
booklet Life Before Birth: w86 4/15 21
comment by professor at gynecological hospital: g87 12/8 30
addictions: g94 8/22 29
medicine: g 10/07 30
shopping: g99 1/22 29
alcoholic beverages:
abuse: g91 7/22 29
traffic fatalities due to: g86 3/8 3
arms trade: g89 7/22 29
Association of Short People: g95 3/8 29
astrology: g94 7/8 28
automobiles:
road-maintenance workers lament fast driving: g87 4/8 30
solar-powered car: g90 3/8 28
traffic accidents: g88 1/8 4; g88 10/22 30; g86 3/8 3
banks:
bank cash found at dump: g86 9/8 30
who rob banks: g86 1/8 30-31
Berlin:
Emmy Zehden Way: g97 1/22 31
birds:
champion crowing rooster: g88 4/22 29
geese used by U.S. military for guard duty: g86 12/8 30
business:
office thievery: g89 8/8 28
Catholic Church:
attendance at Mass: g89 1/8 3
commercialization of papal visit: g 8/07 29
Latin Masses: g05 2/8 28
charitable organizations:
use of donated clothing: g01 8/22 29
use of funds: w86 10/1 22
child abuse: g89 6/22 28-29
childbirth:
illegitimate children: g 11/12 29
twins and triplets increasing: g90 4/8 28-29
Christmas:
candy figures of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus: g86 12/22 29
“C + M + B” on doorposts: w88 12/15 28
heart attacks elevated: g 12/14 7
Cologne: g94 1/8 10-11
courts:
Internet child porn a crime: g02 2/22 29
regulation to have crucifix in all classrooms ruled invalid: g96 3/22 29
ruling on people who quit a denomination: g 11/13 3
crime:
fear of: g93 10/22 28-29
hospital patients robbed: g98 11/8 29
massacre at Winnenden (2009): w09 12/1 9-12
rape: g93 3/8 3
youths: g99 12/22 29
description: yb99 67
divorce: g03 12/8 28; g97 7/8 29; g93 4/8 28-29; g90 7/22 29
drugs:
in school: g96 4/22 28
earthquake in Lower Rhine basin (1992): g92 11/8 28
ecology:
acid rain: g87 7/8 30
endangered species: g97 10/8 28
forest damage from automobile pollution: g91 3/22 29
garbage disposal: g89 4/22 28
mushrooms endangered: g94 4/22 29
saving water: g05 11/8 29
Waldsterben: g87 6/22 2-10; g87 11/8 28
families:
single-parent: g02 10/8 5
gambling: g 3/12 28
government:
archive decay: g90 5/22 28-29
attitudes toward: g90 8/8 4
guns:
illegally owned: g90 5/22 4
health and disease:
AIDS: g88 1/22 30; g86 4/22 4-5
allergies: g97 11/8 28
asthma: g93 2/22 29
feet: g97 3/8 28
from pesticides: g93 8/22 29
natural approach: g88 6/22 23-27
office workers: g94 5/8 29
salmonella infection: g93 8/8 28
sports accidents: g97 3/8 29
heating with wheat: g 8/07 29
hitchhiking murders: g89 2/22 29
homelessness: g91 5/22 29
Ice World (Lübeck): g05 12/22 16-17
Internet website facilitating infidelity: g 4/08 30
law:
denial of Holocaust punishable: g89 4/8 4-5
limes fortifications of Roman Empire: g04 6/22 14-17
Lutheran Church: g87 9/8 2-11
catechism admits Platonic origin of immortality teaching: g88 7/8 9-10
homosexual clergy: g94 6/22 28
justifies military service: w90 6/15 30
letters and reply on Awake! series: g88 1/8 28
membership: g87 9/8 3-4
minister unfrocked for heresy: g87 9/8 6-7
parish bans rice throwing: g87 3/8 29
president of Evangelical Church (EKD) urges political involvement: w89 12/15 29
maps: g01 3/8 23; yb99 79
limes fortifications: g04 6/22 16-17
marriage:
problems among young: g93 12/8 29
medicine: g04 10/22 28
addiction to medicine: g 10/07 30
AIDS from blood products: g95 10/22 28
AIDS from blood transfusions: g88 1/22 30
benefits of smoking ban: g 4/13 3
blood transfusion scandal: g94 4/22 28
high usage of blood products: g90 10/22 5
kidney-stone treatment: g93 8/22 22
Kneipp therapy: g88 6/22 25-26
medicines thrown away: g95 4/8 29
prevention program for crib death: g95 12/22 28
selling own kidney for transplant: g89 3/22 29
spas: g88 6/22 25-27
study on human need for siestas: g87 4/22 29
military:
unexploded munitions from World War II: g94 2/8 28
noise pollution: g93 9/8 29
opencut mining: g04 8/8 21-23
painting porcelain: g00 8/22 16-17
pollution:
increase in water contamination: g90 6/8 29
toxic waste production: g88 5/8 7
population:
aged: g87 4/8 30
railroads:
Intercity Experimental trains: g88 9/22 30
world speed record: g88 9/22 30
religion: g93 5/22 29
atheism increasing: g96 9/8 28
belief in God: w03 2/15 3
bishop presents program for house-to-house evangelizing: g86 6/22 29-30
Catholic decline: g95 8/22 29
Catholic discontent: g95 7/8 28
Catholics petition for reform: g96 6/22 28
Catholics who condone cohabitation: w13 12/1 3
children: g98 12/8 29
church buildings converted: w02 11/15 4
churches admit Holocaust blame: g95 9/8 28
church tax: g91 1/8 29
clergy divorce: g93 3/22 29
clergymen reject infant baptism: w87 4/15 21; g87 12/22 29
clergy reputation: g92 4/8 30-31
commission to investigate sects: w01 6/1 21-22
court ruling on people who quit a denomination: g 11/13 3
decline: g 12/08 29; g 2/07 5; g03 12/8 29; w02 11/15 4; g02 4/22 6; w98 7/1 3; w98 8/15 4; g90 3/8 28; g89 11/22 19
divine name on town hall facade (Horb): w92 2/15 29
Gutenberg Bibles: g98 1/22 29
Holy Coat of Trier: w97 4/1 19
knowledge and use of Ten Commandments: w01 8/15 3
Passion Play of Oberammergau village: g90 4/22 15-17
regulation to have crucifix in all classrooms ruled invalid: g96 3/22 29
“Year of the Bible” (2003): g03 9/22 31
youths who read Bible: w01 8/15 3
reunification: w93 12/15 25-26; g91 1/8 5
difficulties: g91 12/22 22
life since: g01 3/8 23-25
schools:
toy-free kindergartens: g04 9/22 12
stress:
mothers: g93 11/8 28
suicide:
increase: g89 2/8 30
older men: g86 10/8 31
tax evasion: w88 2/15 3
television:
benefits of four-week “fast”: g88 4/8 29
brutality on: g86 10/8 29
terrorism: g86 6/22 4
tipping: g86 6/22 24-26
transsexuals: g90 8/22 29
tree-moving: g86 9/22 31
trial of war criminals:
duties transcending obedience to State cited: w90 11/1 25
violence: g93 5/8 29
wine:
bottle from 1735: g88 4/8 30
youths:
Bible reading: w01 8/15 3
crime: g99 12/22 29
effect of brutality in music and videos: g90 1/8 28
good students prefer books to computers and TV: g86 7/22 30
student protests during 1960’s: g87 6/8 22
terrified after occult “games”: w88 2/15 21
Jehovah’s Witnesses
abortion refused: g92 6/22 24
apostasy:
use of news media: yb99 139, 141
asks time off to attend meetings: yb08 23-24
Assembly Halls: g01 3/8 24; yb99 94-96, 125; yb95 24; jv 330; yb88 23; g87 9/8 24-25
Bethel family: w10 8/15 18; w09 8/1 27-28; yb99 86
blood issue:
“little Oliver” (1991): yb99 142-143
Branch Committee: yb99 85-86, 90
branch office: jv 334, 376-377, 589-590
Information Services: yb99 139, 143-144
international seminars: yb99 136-138
oversees Austria (2011- ): yb13 13
oversees Estonia (1944-1992): yb11 234
oversees Luxembourg (2009- ): yb13 13
oversees Switzerland (2011- ): yb13 13
oversees Ukraine (1960’s–1998): yb02 248
responsibilities: yb99 138; yb94 50
Selters/Taunus (1984): g00 12/22 18-19; yb99 86-94; jv 346; yb87 8-9
Selters/Taunus (1994): yb99 100-101, 129-133; yb95 27, 30-31; jv 376-377; g91 8/22 27
Selters/Taunus (2002, open house): g03 3/8 22-24
translation office: yb08 221-222; yb99 135-136
Wiesbaden (1947): w02 10/1 24; g00 12/22 18
Wiesbaden (1975): yb99 86, 88, 92-93; jv 591
branch overseers: w12 10/15 18-19; yb99 85; w97 5/1 25; w88 3/15 21
Buchenwald plaque (2002): yb03 13, 21-23
commendation: w12 12/15 23
for Bethel Family: w12 12/15 22
concentration camp survivors: yb99 140-141, 144-146
conventions: yb94 7-8; w91 1/15 24-29; yb91 18-23; w90 1/15 29; yb88 13
attended elsewhere: yb99 126-128
Berlin (1990): yb99 118, 121-124; g91 1/8 8-11
boy wears convention badge to school: w06 11/1 32
“Deliverance at Hand!” District Conventions (2006): w07 7/1 7-10
Frankfurt am Main (1951): w15 5/15 31-32; w12 10/15 18; jv 275
international (1998): yb99 15, 146
Nuremberg (1955): w12 9/15 30; yb99 69; jv 496
Nuremberg (1969): yb00 196; w98 11/1 22; jv 496
quotes: yb91 23; w86 1/15 29; g86 12/22 25
use steam from locomotive for convention kitchen: g90 9/8 20
courts:
child custody: yb97 15
former judge apologizes after 45 years: w96 7/1 32
victory on public law status (2015): yb17 32-33
victory on status as public corporation (1997-2001, 2004-2006): yb07 24; yb06 13, 15; g 8/06 19; yb05 14; yb02 15; w01 8/15 8
doctor’s appreciation for Watchtower and Awake!: w88 5/1 32
effect of fall of Berlin Wall: yb99 109-111
field ministry:
hours since 1946: jv 376
multilingual field: yb07 17-18; w05 12/1 24; yb99 70-78; jv 497
refugees: yb17 38-40
Russian: g00 2/22 23-24
Gilead attendees: yb99 104-105; jv 541
Gilead Extension School: yb99 104; jv 533, 545
growth: kr 96; yb99 69-70; w87 1/1 5
Hospital Information Services seminars: yb99 105-106
Hospital Liaison Committees: yb99 106-107
Kingdom Halls: yb99 96-97; yb96 25; yb95 22; w93 12/15 29; yb88 23
eastern Germany: g01 3/8 24-25; yb99 124-126; yb97 25
Harp Hall (Magdeburg): yb99 134-135
letters from East German visitors: g91 1/8 10-11
Ministerial Training School: yb99 105; yb92 11-12
missionaries: jv 539
serving in other lands: yb99 102-103
modern history: yb99 69-78, 84-111, 118, 121-147
persecution:
misrepresentation: yb99 138-139, 141-144
persons:
Berner, Alice: yb87 128
Brüggemeier family: w06 12/1 12-16
Buschbeck, Günter: yb99 102-103
Dickmann, Änne: yb99 145-147
Dickmann, Heinrich: yb99 144-147
Engler, Paul: yb99 102-103
Franke, Konrad: yb99 85; w97 5/1 25
Frost, Erich: w12 10/15 18-19; yb99 85, 98; w88 3/15 21
Grosse, Erwin: w88 12/1 28-31
Gudlikies, Franz: w99 6/1 20-23
Hartung, Karin: foa article 7
Henschel, Horst: g98 2/22 12-17
Hoffmann, Filip: w02 10/1 25
Hombach, Maria: yb99 145-147; w89 5/1 13
Jess, Frieda: w03 3/1 5-6
Karlstroem, Nikita: yb08 198
Kasten, William (Bill): w12 10/15 17-21
Kelsey, Richard: w12 10/15 17-21; yb99 85, 90; jv 88
Königer, Margarita: yb99 102-103
Kretschmer, Horst: yb99 98
Krolop, Ulrike: foa article 7; kr 96
Krolop, Wolfgang: yb99 85
Lingenfelder, Hans: g88 8/8 12-15
Löhr, Elfriede: yb99 145-147
Ludolph, Erna: w05 5/1 31
Maar, Heinrich: w09 8/1 27-28
Matzen, Werner: w02 5/1 25-29
Menne, Ursula: g 11/11 21-23
Merten, Bernhard: wp16.6 13-15
Müller, Charlotte: w97 5/1 24-29
Oltmanns, Gerhard: yb99 97
Peter, Egon: yb99 85
Poetzinger, Gertrud: foa article 7; yb99 98-101, 103, 146-147
Poetzinger, Martin: yb99 98-101; w88 9/15 31
Pohl, Willi: yb11 225, 227; yb08 198, 202-203; yb99 85, 90
Rehwald, Josef: yb99 145-147
Reuter, Georg: w97 4/15 15-16; g90 9/8 17-21
Sandner, Max: yb99 97
Scharner, Josef: yb99 97
Seliger, Ernst and Hildegard: yb99 94
Sömisch, Karl: yb99 102-103
Templeton, Ramon: w12 10/15 17-21; yb99 86, 90; jv 88
Tonak, Manfred and Gail: w19.07 25-29; yb99 102-103
Turner, Lowell: w12 10/15 17-21
Urban, Elfriede: lfs article 9
Wrobel, Paul: yb99 97
Wulle, Otto: yb99 97
Pioneer Service School: yb99 103-104
places:
East Germany area: w93 12/15 25-29
printing: yb99 92; yb97 8; yb96 50; jv 376-377, 589-591, 593; yb87 8-9
bookbinding: w13 6/15 2; jv 593
for East Germany: jv 594-595
growth: yb99 132
offset printing: yb99 86-88, 91-92; jv 594-595
presses: jv 587
publications:
book You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth: yb99 92
brochure Your Neighbors, Jehovah’s Witnesses—Who Are They?: yb99 142-143; yb96 19
countries shipped to: yb99 132, 138; yb96 50; jv 377, 593
loose-leaf book Family Care and Medical Management for Jehovah’s Witnesses: yb99 106-107
radio broadcasts: kr 74
relief provisions sent to, after World War II: foa article 4; kr 192; yb87 168
relief work:
floods (2002): g03 8/8 10-12, 30
save householder from gas leak: g86 6/8 31
service experiences:
appreciation for Awake!: g00 12/8 32
Creation book used by school: g93 4/8 32
dance club security guard: w10 11/1 20-21
family with violent father: w03 5/15 8-9
“forest” Bible study: yb15 68-70
former nun, Communist: w14 4/1 8-9
help alcoholic to change: w86 10/1 24
immigrant field: yb99 72, 74-77
kind response to rude passerby: yb04 46
letters written by 90-year-old sister: ijwex article 1
Muslim woman from Azerbaijan: w15 1/1 8-9
nun: w05 1/1 6
police guarding railroad: yb05 59
port: yb01 58-59
prison inmates after release: w05 12/15 12
Rotary Club member: g97 7/22 32
Russian army barracks: w94 6/1 24
skinhead and punker: w05 2/15 8
Witness student’s presentation on Holocaust: g03 5/8 14-15
Young People Ask book in school: g 10/07 32
youth witnesses in school: w94 1/1 26
street named after Witness executed for neutrality: g94 1/8 29
survey: yb99 142
traveling overseers: yb99 97-98
video Jehovah’s Witnesses Stand Firm Against Nazi Assault: yb99 143-144; yb98 46-47; g97 6/22 14-15
visits by—
Barber, C. W.: yb95 30
Henschel, M. G.: yb95 30
Klein, K. F.: yb95 30
Knorr, N. H.: yb99 87-88
Suiter, G.: yb99 88
Sydlik, D.: yb95 30-31
youths:
leaves class that used Ouija board: w09 4/15 11