Besides the smaller Protestant denominations of the Mennonites, Baptists and Methodists, which were organised crossing state borders along denominational lines, there were 29 (later 28) church bodies organised according to the territorial borders of the German states or the Prussian provinces.
Its executive body was the German Evangelical Church Committee (Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchenausschuss [de]; DEKA).
[3] The theological faculties in the universities continued, as did religious instruction in the schools, however, allowing the parents to opt out for their children.
The German Evangelical Church Confederation was prepared for with conferences in Cassel in 1919, in Dresden 1919 and Stuttgart in 1921.
The Confederation was reorganised when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, in order to become the core of a future united Protestant church in Germany.