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Schwarzenberg Branch, Zwickau District
Roger P. Minert, In Harm鈥檚 Way: East German Latter-day Saints in World War II (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009), 493-4.
The town of Schwarzenberg in Saxony is located eighteen miles southeast of Zwickau, seven miles north of the Czech border. In 1939, approximately seven thousand people lived in Schwarzenberg; fifty-one were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
| Schwarzenberg Branch[1] | 1939 |
| Elders | 2 |
| Priests | 1 |
| Teachers | 2 |
| Deacons | 1 |
| Other Adult Males | 11 |
| Adult Females | 33 |
| Male Children | 1 |
| Female Children | 0 |
| Total | 51 |
As of this writing, no eyewitnesses could be found, and thus no description of the branch, its meeting place, or its membership is available. The mission directory for September 1938 shows an address of Gr眉nhainerstrasse 8, on the main floor of the first Hinterhaus of 鈥淗ecker鈥檚 factory.鈥
In the final months of the war, the rooms in which the Schwarzenberg Branch met were confiscated; throngs of refugees pouring into the region needed housing, and the city government appropriated space wherever possible.[2]
No members of the Schwarzenberg Branch are known to have lost their lives in World War II.
Notes
[1] Presiding Bishopric, 鈥淔inancial, Statistical, and Historical Reports of Wards, Stakes, and Missions, 1884鈥1955,鈥 CR 4 12, 257.
[2] . 鈥淒ie Geschichte der Gemeinde Zwickau in Kurzfassung鈥 (unpublished history); private collection.
