Christian Portner

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Christian Portner (born March 12, 1870 in Uebeschi ; † January 18, 1951 in Konolfingen ) was a Swiss evangelist .

Life

Christian Portner was the son of the worker and smallholder Jakob Portner and his wife Anna (née Müller).

He learned the profession of primary school teacher and was introduced to the sanctification movement by Anna von Wattenwyl in 1882 .

In 1896 he became an evangelist in the Evangelical Society of the Canton of Bern and one of the main leaders of the radical, the so-called perfectionist wing of the Emmental sanctification movement. In his environment, uncontrollable " ghost phenomena " often occurred .

After Christian Portner had been banned from evangelization for years, he founded a new community group with Alfred Käser's circles in 1908, and together with Fritz Berger , so that initially people spoke of the Portner-Berger movement (from 1919 Association of Regional Church Communities of the Canton of Bern ), its secretary and leader he remained for decades. The hope that the association could overtake the Evangelical Society of the Canton of Bern did not come true; it remained a small community. However, the establishment of the association, and with it the split from the Evangelical Society, led to a fundamental shift in religious conditions in the canton of Bern, which led to numerous other groups, including the establishment of the Evangelical Brother Association in 1914.

Christian Portner was married to Emma (née Kaufmann) from 1896 and to Lina, daughter of Albrecht Käser, from 1911.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Fuhrer: On the history of the self-conference. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Franziska Rüegsegger: The identity of the EGW - a location determination. May 2008, accessed April 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Portner, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss evangelist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Uebeschi
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1951
Place of death Konolfingen