Bruderschaft des Kreuzes

Bruderschaft des Kreuzes
Castagnoli (left) and Ares (right) as the Campeones de Parejas in April 2010, with Tursas (center).
Stable
Members	"The King" Jakob Hammermeier Tim Donst Dezmond Xavier "The Spider Web" Zachary Wentz Dave Crist Father Matthew Tremont Stockade Alex Colon Alexander James Victor Barka Greg Excellent
Former member(s)	Jaka Pinkie "Pink Ant" Sanchez Ares Claudio Castagnoli Daizee Haze Delirious Derek Sabato Dieter VonSteigerwalt Lince Dorado Milo Schnitzler Nøkken Sara Del Rey Soldier Ant Tim Donst Tursas
Debut	November 22, 2009 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Years active	2009-2012; 2013-present
Promotions	Chikara AIW Osaka Pro WiC

Bruderschaft des Kreuzes (German for "Brotherhood of the Cross", commonly abbreviated to BDK) is a professional wrestling stable in the Chikara promotion.

On May 27, 2007, at Aniversario? Mike Quackenbush defeated longtime rival Chris Hero in a match two years in the making with a new submission maneuver called the Chikara Special. Following the match Quackenbush announced that since he knew Hero would never be able to break the hold, he would teach it and the counter to it to all tecnicos (good guys) on the Chikara roster. After Lince Dorado,El Pantera,Equinox and Claudio Castagnoli had all used the move to defeat Hero, he was booked to wrestle Equinox in a hair vs. mask match on November 11, 2007, at The Sordid Perils of Everyday Existence. During the match Equinox managed to lock in the Chikara Special, only for Hero to counter out of it and apply the move himself to force Equinox to tap out and lose his mask.

Quackenbush, wanting to find out who had leaked the move and the counter to it to Hero, sent Tim Donst to infiltrate the rudo (villain) stable The Order of the Neo-Solar Temple, led by UltraMantis Black. While undercover in the stable Donst found out that the leak had been Shane Storm, the tag team partner of Mike Quackenbush, who was at the time on a losing streak and was ready to exchange the move for a win over Temple member Hydra. On June 14, 2008, Donst left the Temple and revealed the leak to Quackenbush, who attacked Storm, with whom he had a Campeonatos de Parejas (Tag Team Championship) title match coming up, but instead of picking Donst to be his new tag team partner, Quackenbush decided to pick Jigsaw, while Donst went on to form a comedy tag team with Hydra, who had left the Neo-Solar Temple with him. However, in August 2009 Quackenbush thanked Donst for the infiltration by teaching him and only him a new submission maneuver, an inverted Chikara Special, in order to give him an edge in the upcoming Young Lions Cup.