STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2141, sig. 109-8/24

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4 - 2 - President of the Verein Evangeline Booth in London and as Vice President Ejnner C. Thykjaer, resident in Helsingfors in Finland, Evangengeline Booth in London denied the function of President in 1939 and replaced him as President Karl Larsson, residing in Stockholm in Sweden. He then served as Vice-President for the Protectorate Ejnnner C, and was elected President of Sweden. Thykjaer in Helsingfors. The Salvation Army has been active in Prague since the beginning of 1919. However, for unknown reasons, their statutes were not approved by the Landant in Prague until 1921 and, from the administrative point of view, there were several irregularities: although the states did not mention branches and therefore only have been taken note of by the State Office and not by the Ministry of the Interior, there existed and still exist groups of these sects in all the larger cities of the Protectorate. The purposes and means of the association mentioned in the statutes are without any other strictly required limitation, so that the Salvation Army is possible almost any kind of cultural, commercial and commercial activity. Thus, the purpose of the association is to raise the physical and spiritual level of man and to extend his moral outlook on life, his peacefulness, justice, charity and charity, as well as by counsel and action to all those who, by means of circumstances or for other reasons, became victims of unbridledness or evil and as a result suffer from lack and poverty. Since the Salvation Army in the former Czechoslovakia and now also in the Protectorate was without interruption led by a foreigner from its foundation and is incorporated by statute not independently, but a central association with its seat abroad, the Landesamt was not at all responsible for the approval of such statutes. In similar cases, such decisions have always been the subject of internal decisions.