With the Silesian Bishop Hans-Joachim Frankel, a church-leading figure comes into view, who only at first glance belonged to the second row of ecclesiastical ministers of the GDR church history. Frankel deserves special attention because of his criticism of the existing conditions in the SED state, which can be described as persistent. This is particularly evident in the caesuras in the history of the GDR church, into which Frankel was particularly taken: in 1958 he called the agitations of the regime terror