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Church Spaces
Hugo Hahn (1886-1957) was pastor at the Frauenkirche from 1930 to 1938, where he came into conflict with the German Christians and the church leadership of the Saxon Regional Church since the National Socialists came to power. He became involved early on in the resistance against the so-called "coordination" (Gleichschaltung) of the churches and was ultimately one of the earlier pastors who founded the Confessing Church.
While the Frauenkirche was consecrated as a cathedral and swastika flags were flying, Hugo Hahn organized extraordinary Bible studies and community life for all Christians in Dresden who did not want to integrate into the Nationalistic-Christian ideology. This ideology was preached at the Frauenkirche from 1933 until 1945.
Because of his resistance activities, Hugo Hahn was finally removed from his office in 1938 and expelled from Saxony. He found a new calling in Baden-Württemberg, from where he signed the churches' Stuttgart confession of guilt in 1945 as a representative for Saxony.
His bust hangs in stairwell C - in memory of him and his resistance, which was not welcomed at the Frauenkirche and in the communities of Germany in his time.
