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Heeressoziologie
Military Chaplaincy in the Royal Prussian Garrison Münster
With the takeover of the former Catholic prince-bishopric by the Prussians, Münster henceforth belonged to a state entity whose ruling house and the majority of the population were Protestant. Except in Upper Silesia, only the Rhine Province and the Province of Westphalia had a Catholic majority. From this arose conflicts even in relatively tolerant Prussia, which in the second half of the 19th century would intensify in the context of the Kulturkampf. The idea of parity was only slowly developed in the Prussian state. The civil service and the military were largely non-local and initially still predominantly Protestant. For them, military chaplaincy had to be secured.
Heeressoziologie
On the military culture of remembrance in Münster after 1918
When the Münster regiments finally returned to their home garrisons in 1918 and 1919 and were almost completely disbanded, the German Reich sank into revolutionary turmoil. Against the backdrop of the Weimar Republic, the processing of the military defeat began — a defeat that allegedly had not occurred (the "stab-in-the-back legend"); the myth of the front-line soldier and a culture of remembrance and commemoration developed.