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BIG NEWS! Leader of German Watchtower History Archives Resignes and Leaves Branch Office!
by GermanXJW injohannes wrobel, the founder of the watchtower history archives in germany, responsible for the stand firm-video and the stand-firm-exhibitions resigned in november 2008 and left the german branch office.
he was also the responsible person for many of the wt sponsored websites on jw in the 'third reich'!.
there are no further details known yet but this could be big news!.
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BIG NEWS! Leader of German Watchtower History Archives Resignes and Leaves Branch Office!
by GermanXJW injohannes wrobel, the founder of the watchtower history archives in germany, responsible for the stand firm-video and the stand-firm-exhibitions resigned in november 2008 and left the german branch office.
he was also the responsible person for many of the wt sponsored websites on jw in the 'third reich'!.
there are no further details known yet but this could be big news!.
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GermanXJW
According to rumours on the German board http://forum.sektenausstieg.net/index.php?topic=17735.0 Wrobel left the branch office on his own request and even Bethel heavies are said to not know about his intentions. Someone said he now works for a home delivery service for frozen food. Wrobel's wife is said to be still at the German branch office.
So, still a lot of rumours. Someone has mailed him. Looking forward to a reply.
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BIG NEWS! Leader of German Watchtower History Archives Resignes and Leaves Branch Office!
by GermanXJW injohannes wrobel, the founder of the watchtower history archives in germany, responsible for the stand firm-video and the stand-firm-exhibitions resigned in november 2008 and left the german branch office.
he was also the responsible person for many of the wt sponsored websites on jw in the 'third reich'!.
there are no further details known yet but this could be big news!.
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GermanXJW
It's all speculation at this point, about the German Bethel Heavy, but if he has "resigned" that implies he's done with dubdom. Unless "resign" has a different reading in the German language. I know what it would mean if a U.S. Bethelite used the word.
Another unusual expression that he uses is "termination of the employment relationship with the Watchtower Society".
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BIG NEWS! Leader of German Watchtower History Archives Resignes and Leaves Branch Office!
by GermanXJW injohannes wrobel, the founder of the watchtower history archives in germany, responsible for the stand firm-video and the stand-firm-exhibitions resigned in november 2008 and left the german branch office.
he was also the responsible person for many of the wt sponsored websites on jw in the 'third reich'!.
there are no further details known yet but this could be big news!.
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GermanXJW
I have not heard about lay-offs and I am not sure I they would just sack their History Archives Director. He used to write articles in the Watchtower! He writes that he resigned.
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BIG NEWS! Leader of German Watchtower History Archives Resignes and Leaves Branch Office!
by GermanXJW injohannes wrobel, the founder of the watchtower history archives in germany, responsible for the stand firm-video and the stand-firm-exhibitions resigned in november 2008 and left the german branch office.
he was also the responsible person for many of the wt sponsored websites on jw in the 'third reich'!.
there are no further details known yet but this could be big news!.
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GermanXJW
You can have his cv translated by Google:
http://translate.google.de/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jwrobel.de%2F&sl=de&tl=en&hl=de&ie=UTF-8
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BIG NEWS! Leader of German Watchtower History Archives Resignes and Leaves Branch Office!
by GermanXJW injohannes wrobel, the founder of the watchtower history archives in germany, responsible for the stand firm-video and the stand-firm-exhibitions resigned in november 2008 and left the german branch office.
he was also the responsible person for many of the wt sponsored websites on jw in the 'third reich'!.
there are no further details known yet but this could be big news!.
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GermanXJW
He was a Bethelite until November 2008. In his C.V. there is a new period starting 1996 because of the Stand Firm-Project.
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BIG NEWS! Leader of German Watchtower History Archives Resignes and Leaves Branch Office!
by GermanXJW injohannes wrobel, the founder of the watchtower history archives in germany, responsible for the stand firm-video and the stand-firm-exhibitions resigned in november 2008 and left the german branch office.
he was also the responsible person for many of the wt sponsored websites on jw in the 'third reich'!.
there are no further details known yet but this could be big news!.
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GermanXJW
He was a Bethelite. He says this in the German part of his WebSite. I have met him in person several times.
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BIG NEWS! Leader of German Watchtower History Archives Resignes and Leaves Branch Office!
by GermanXJW injohannes wrobel, the founder of the watchtower history archives in germany, responsible for the stand firm-video and the stand-firm-exhibitions resigned in november 2008 and left the german branch office.
he was also the responsible person for many of the wt sponsored websites on jw in the 'third reich'!.
there are no further details known yet but this could be big news!.
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GermanXJW
His c.v. for 1979-1996 states:
Working in the Writing Department of the Watchtower Society as anonymous author (publication of several articles especially in Watchtower and Awake!, e.g. about renderings of the New World Translation including articles in the section "Questions from Readers").
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BIG NEWS! Leader of German Watchtower History Archives Resignes and Leaves Branch Office!
by GermanXJW injohannes wrobel, the founder of the watchtower history archives in germany, responsible for the stand firm-video and the stand-firm-exhibitions resigned in november 2008 and left the german branch office.
he was also the responsible person for many of the wt sponsored websites on jw in the 'third reich'!.
there are no further details known yet but this could be big news!.
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GermanXJW
I learnt this just some minutes ago.
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BIG NEWS! Leader of German Watchtower History Archives Resignes and Leaves Branch Office!
by GermanXJW injohannes wrobel, the founder of the watchtower history archives in germany, responsible for the stand firm-video and the stand-firm-exhibitions resigned in november 2008 and left the german branch office.
he was also the responsible person for many of the wt sponsored websites on jw in the 'third reich'!.
there are no further details known yet but this could be big news!.
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GermanXJW
Johannes Wrobel, the founder of the Watchtower History Archives in Germany, responsible for the Stand Firm-Video and the Stand-Firm-Exhibitions resigned in November 2008 and left the German branch office. He was also the responsible person for many of the WT sponsored WebSites on JW in the 'Third Reich'!
There are no further details known yet but this could be big news!
He has set up a small website at http://www.jwrobel.de. There he states his whole c.v. including that he resigned as the leader of the Watchtower History Archives in November 08 and that he cancelled his service for the Watchtower Society after 36 years. For the time being, he returned to private life but is available for the support of research projects by request. Finally, he thanks all friends, collegues for their support in the research projects on Bible Students/JW.
His official English summary:
"Johannes S. Wrobel is a writer and researcher on the history of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany and their persecution during the national socialist and communist periods. In April 1996, he founded the Watchtower History Archive of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Selters/Taunus (Germany) and directed it until November 2008. Presently he lives close to Reutlingen city. He has lectured in Austria, England, Germany, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Israel, and the United States and contributed papers to Hans Hesse (ed.), Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah’s Witnesses During the Nazi-Regime 1933-1945 (Bremen, 2001) and Gerhard Besier and Clemens Vollnhals (eds.), Repression und Selbstbehauptung: die Zeugen Jehovas unter der NS- und der SED-Diktatur (Berlin, 2003). His most recent essays were published in Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte/Contemporary Church History (2003), in Wolfgang Benz and Barbara Distel (eds.), Der Ort des Terrors: Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager (vols 2 and 4, Munich, 2005 and 2006), and Religion, State & Society, The Keston Journal (no. 34, 2006)."
This all sounds a bit strange.