Anton Schulte
Antonius Bernhard Schulte (born August 20, 1925 in Bottrop , † December 26, 2010 in Hemer , North Rhine-Westphalia ) was a German evangelist . He was the founder of the New Life Missionary Work , from which many independent organizations have since emerged.
Life
Anton Schulte grew up in a Roman Catholic family with seven other siblings. He completed an apprenticeship as a miller and was drafted into military service in 1943 at the age of 17. After the end of the Second World War , the paratrooper was captured first in Italian, then in the United States and finally in British captivity . Schulte came to Scotland as a prisoner of war farm laborer , where he lived until January 1949. Here the agnostic Schulte experienced his conversion .
After his return to Germany, he initially worked in his learned profession as a bailiff in Düsseldorf , where he already carried out evangelism every evening . Anton Schulte finally trained as an evangelist at the Wiedenest Bible School .
Schulte found his first job with the youth evangelization organization Youth for Christ (JFC). From December 1953 he was the first German evangelist to be heard on a weekly radio broadcast on Radio Monte Carlo . Since his employer JFC did not support the radio evangelism either financially or accentuated, Anton Schulte founded the association Missionswerk Neues Leben in 1954 in the Westerwalddorf Wölmersen , which from then on financially supported his radio work.
In 1959 Anton Schulte was one of the co-founders of Evangeliums-Rundfunks (today ERF-Medien) in Wetzlar .
Anton Schulte tried again and again, often in conflict with conservative and anti-technology evangelical circles, to see current technical developments and to use them for evangelism.
In retirement he lived with his second wife Heidi Kühnel, with whom he had been married since 1991, initially on the Canary Island of Lanzarote , but returned to Germany and lived with his family in Balve in the Sauerland until his death . His marriage to his late wife Hermine Schulte resulted in two sons, Peter and Wilfried, who work on the board of the mission work in Wölmersen.
Web links
- Literature by and about Anton Schulte in the catalog of the German National Library
- Anton Schulte in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schulte, Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schulte, Antonius Bernhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German evangelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bottrop |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 2010 |
| Place of death | Hemer , North Rhine-Westphalia |