Very soon the EvAKiZ's field of research expanded to the survey of the role of Protestantism in the Weimar Republic and in the period after World War II.

Complemented with members of the new federal states from 1989 onwards the consortium was engaged in two major research projects concerned with the history of the Protestant Church in the GDR and in the divided Germany.

This broadening of perspective is datable: It was the jubilee symposium on the 50. anniversary of the EvAKiZ in 2005 which issued the relations between Protestantism and social movements in the 1960s and '70s and thereby created a lasting enhancement of the research program.

The Evangelische Arbeitsgemeinschaft comprises a commission consisting of twelve regular and three members at large, who relate to contemporary church history due to their research work and professional employment, and further a Research Center for Contemporary Church History, located at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München.

Active Chairman Prof. Dr. Harry Oelke (since 2004) Vice-Chairman Prof. Dr. Siegfried Hermle (since 2004) Former Chairmen/Chairwomen Former Vice-Chairmen/Chairwomen Former Commission Members (selection) Forschungsstelle für Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte (= Research Center For Contemporary Church History) Director Research Fellows Aim of the Evangelische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte is the enhancement of scientifically independent study of church history by incitation, implementation and publication of dissertations.

Studies emerging from the context of the commission cover the wide range of church historiographical, source-oriented individual questions to fundamental theoretical problems within their own discipline.

In the “supplement series” released from 1964 onwards, mainly territorial historical accounts of contemporary witnesses were published as well as relevant DDR publications incorporated.