VI. Johann Viktor Bredt (1879–1940) – ein Kirchenrechtler und Politiker in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik.

Johann Victor Bredt was born in Barmen in 1879. He studied law in -Tübingen, Göttingen and Bonn from 1898 and received his doctorate in law, Leipzig 1901, and his dr. phil. in political economy, in Bonn 1904. In1909 his habilitation thesis on the -Polish question in the Ruhr area was published, and he was appointed adjunct professor in Marburg. In 1911 he joined the Prussian state parliament as a member of the "Freikonservative Partei". During the First World War he suffered a serious injury to his lower jaw. He presented the "Reichspartei des deutschen Mittelstandes (Wirtschaftspartei)" in the state parliament from 1921 to 1924, and in the Reichstag from 1924 to 1933. For a few months in 1930, he was -Minister of Justice. Bredt had been active in the Moderamen (leadership) of the Reformed Federation since 1924 and was committed to a merger of the Reformed churches and communities into a -unified -Reformed Church in Germany. When this failed, he left the Reformed League in 1934. Bredt wrote three volumes of "New Protestant Canon Law in Prussia", Berlin 1912, 1922 and 1927. In the first volume he deals with the history of canon law and the relationship between state and church. In the second volume he presents the corporate law of the Protestant Church. In the third volume he describes the seven regional churches in which new church constitutions had come into force. Bredt's work is characterized by his Reformed confession and research into the Reformed communities on the Lower Rhine after the Reformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]