Protestant and Nazi Women's Organizations

Members of Women’s Aid Societies were not prohibited from joining the National Socialist Women's League as well. Of course, Women’s Aid Societies and pastors attempted however to take action against the Nazi organizations that had been established as rivals to the Women’s Aid Society.

The conduct of Pastor Johannes Müller in Holzhausen near Minden in 1936 furnishes one example. In his report of the on the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the “Women’s Aid Society Holzhausen II-Nordhemmern bei Minden i. W.”, Mayor Wilhelm Frederking complained about Müller’s conduct:

Not only had the pastor taken a stand against the Winter Relief Agency, he also demonstratively left the assembly with a large group when the head of the National Socialist Women’s League, the “District Women’s League President”, wanted to address the women in attendance. Further, the brass ensembles under Müller’s influence loudly prevented the start of the District Women’s League President’s address at first and then likewise left the hall. Conflicts like this were probably not uncommon.