In brief:
Salvation Army work in Germany began in Stuttgart on 14 November 1886
through the persistent sale of the Swiss Kriegsruf by Staff-Captain Fritz
Schaaf who, after being converted in New York, was statio9ned in
Switzerland and could not resist the call to bring the message over the
border into his fatherland.
The Salvation Army was first registered as a limited company in Berlin in
1897 and was recognized through Germany as a public corporation on 10
October 1967 by law in Nordrhein-Westfalen. It is recognized as a
religious association with public rights in the states of Berlin, Hessen,
Schleswig-Holstein and Baden-Wurttemberg.
The Army was serving in Klaipeda, Lithuania
from 1892 to 1944 and was closed when the Soviet army occupied the town.
Lithuania became in depended in 1990 and so the Salvation Army could be
re-opened. In 2001, Before two retired officers from Germany and
Switzerland were inviting old German speaking people for a Bible group.