Albert from the chamber

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Albert von der Kammer (born November 7, 1860 in Wolgast , † July 9, 1951 in Klotzsche ) was a German entrepreneur, preacher and author of the Brethren movement .

Life

Albert's father Wilhelm von der Kammer (1825-1880) was initially a master shoemaker, but from 1849 worked as a Baptist evangelist . Albert himself came to the faith as a youth and was involved early on as a preacher in the Wolgast Baptist congregation. In 1880 the congregation was excluded from the Prussian Association of Baptist Congregations and joined the “closed” brothers' movement ; in the early 1890s she moved to the Raven brothers and at the end of 1904 to the "open brothers".

Von der Kammer owned a small factory in Wolgast, in which blue laundry bags were made. Around 1905 he sold them and moved to Saxony , where he helped found several congregations of the "open brothers". At times he was also a guest teacher at the Allianz Bible School in Berlin . From 1913 he and his son-in-law Fritz Koch published the magazine Handreichungen aus dem Word Gottes . He was an influential preacher of the Brethren movement, who also took a large part in the disputes and unification efforts between “closed” and “open brothers”. From the 1930s he was affected by rheumatism and gallbladder disease and was only rarely active. At the beginning of 1950 he suffered an accident which resulted in his death a year and a half later.

family

Albert von der Kammer was married to Marie geb. Wallis and had two daughters. Later he married a second time: Anna.

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