Alois Mailänder

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Standing: Franz Gustav Gebhard, Frederick Eckstein, Nikolaus Gabele, sitting Alois Mailänder, Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden 1895

Alois Mailänder (born March 25, 1843 in Weissenau / Donaukreis, † January 25, 1905 in Dreieichenhain ) was a German mystic and occultist .

Mailänder, originally a Catholic, was the illegitimate son of Anna Mailänder from South Tyrol. He was of simple origin and a journeyman weaver by profession. In 1877, at the age of 33, he is said to have been initiated into a "spiritual teaching" by a carpenter named Prestel. In 1890 he founded a mystical society with a Christian- Rosicrucian orientation in Dreieichenhain near Frankfurt , where he took the religious name Johannes. Milanese was one of the heads of this society. The meeting place was the so-called "brother home" of Milanese and his brother-in-law Nikolaus Gabele. Mailänder also worked philanthropically in Dreieichenhain and stipulated in his will that after the legacies of his relatives have been paid out, the rest of his fortune - almost 10,000 marks - should be shared equally between the poor people in Dreieichenhain and the toddler school to be set up as a foundation.

The best-known member of this society was the writer Gustav Meyrink . From the time of his membership, which began on October 23, 1892 and lasted 13 years, 40 letters have been preserved. Finally, Meyrink distanced himself from the group and its leader Johannes, on the one hand because he began to regard their activities as "spiritualism" and "Christian piety", on the other hand because he considered the exercises prescribed by Brother Johannes to be the cause of a protracted spinal cord disease.

In addition to Meyrink, Karl Weinfurter , Wilhelm Hübbe Schleiden and Franz Hartmann are said to have belonged to the group.

literature

  • Hartmut Binder: Gustav Meyrink: a life under the spell of magic. Vitalis Verlag, Prague 2009, ISBN 978-3-89919-078-6 , pp. 177-199.
  • Hans-Jürgen Glowka: Covenant of promise (Alois Mailänder). In: ders .: German occult groups 1875-1937. Working group for questions of religion and ideology, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-921513-54-5 , pp. 105-107
  • Horst E. Miers : Lexicon of secret knowledge. Munich 1979, p. 267
  • Frans Smit: Gustav Meyrink: in search of the supernatural. Langen Müller, Munich 1988, pp. 151-153

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In the death certificate No. 2/1905 of the Dreieichenhain registry office, Eschach, Oberamt Ravensburg, is given as the place of birth. Eschach belonged to the former Sternberg-Manderscheid rule of Weißenau, which was transferred to the Württemberg state by a purchase contract of March 30, 1835. The place of birth Fidazhofen, which is often also mentioned in Mailänder, belonged to Eschach as a place or hamlet.
  2. ↑ Evangel. Church chronicle Dreieichenhain, entry 1905
  3. ↑ Solmische-Weiher-Straße 22, Dreieichenhain. Cf. Roger Heil: Occultist sect in Dreieichenhain at the turn of the century. In: Landscape Dreieich. Annual volume 1990, pp. 120-125.
  4. ^ Ludwig Hein: Mailänders Foundation for the Toddler School 1905. In: Evangel. Church chronicle Dreieichenhain, entry 1905
  5. ^ Gustav Meyrink: Bats. Munich 1981, p. 241f u. 410
personal data
SURNAME Milanese, Alois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milanese, Johannes (religious name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mystic and occultist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenau / Danube District
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1905
Place of death Dreieichenhain