Christoph Ulrich Hahn

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Christoph Ulrich Hahn (born October 30, 1805 in Stuttgart ; † January 5, 1881 there ) was a German pioneer of diakonia .

Life

Hahn was the fifth child of the married couple Christoph Matthäus Daniel Hahn, a younger half-brother of the inventor and pastor Philipp Matthäus Hahn , and Ulrike Hahn, geb. Paul. After graduating from high school, he studied theology and took his first exam in Tübingen in autumn 1827 . The following spring he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

In the summer of 1828 Hahn took a position at a pedagogical institute in Lausanne ; at the same time he worked for a Lausanne tract society and got to know the business of the mission of the scriptures here . In October 1829 he started his vicariate with Dean Herwig in Esslingen . Here he founded a tract association based on the Lausanne model in 1830 , which was called the Evangelical Society from 1832 and moved to Stuttgart in 1835. In 1833 he moved to the first parish in Bönnigheim . Hahn married in 1835. When his wife died in 1843, he remarried in 1849. Hahn's second wife also died young. From then on he was alone. Hahn was the father of four sons.

In Bönnigheim he founded a boarding school based on the Lausanne model. In its heyday it had eight teachers and seventy students from the surrounding area and neighboring countries. The languages ​​of instruction were German, English and French. As a pastor in Bönnigheim Hahn also set up a people's kitchen , a kindergarten , a reading club, an association for the clothing of poor country folk, an association against beggars by skilled craftsmen, an association for Christian education schools and a poor institution in Winterbach .

He also worked scientifically. For his monumental three-volume “ Heretic History of the Middle Ages ” he undertook research trips to Turin , Geneva , Lyon , Paris , Brussels , Oxford and Cambridge . The second volume of the history of heretics earned him an honorary doctorate from the theological faculty of the University of Leipzig . There were also publications on questions relating to the Inner Mission. In 1859 Hahn left Bönnigheim and moved to the pastor's office in Stuttgart-Heslach . From now on he regularly took part in the meetings of the central management of the Württemberg charity. Again and again he drew attention to himself with suggestions for improving the social situation. Soon he was considered an expert on welfare. Among other things, he called for an international factory law that should ensure workers a decent existence.

In 1863 Hahn met Henry Dunant . With the consent of the Württemberg King, he founded the Württemberg Medical Association , the first national Red Cross Society in history , in the same year . In the following year Hahn signed the first Geneva Convention for the Kingdom of Württemberg . In the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and in the Franco-German War from 1870 to 1871, the Württemberg Medical Association was able to prove itself for the first time under his leadership. Hahn received numerous medals and awards for his commitment, including from France .

Hahn's considerations also led to the establishment of a nursing school by the central management of the charity in Württemberg and the Württemberg medical association at the Heilbronn municipal hospital in 1872, from which the Olga Sisters emerged as the Protestant Red Cross Sisterhood. At the age of 67, Hahn retired in 1872 due to his poor health and moved to a house at the foot of Stuttgart's Karlshöhe. He published in the " Blätter für das Armenwesen " and gave lectures all over Germany. When he presented the Württemberg welfare system in Berlin in 1876, Empress Augusta said: "We in Prussia are still minor children in this area compared to their country."

Hahn appeared in public for the last time at the 50th anniversary of the Evangelical Society (1880). At this point he was already marked by illness. Hahn died on January 5, 1881 and was buried in the Fangelsbach cemetery in Stuttgart .

Works (selection)

  • The writings left by Philipp Matthäus Hahn. 1828
  • The symbolic books of the Evangelical Protestant Church Significance and Fates. 1833
  • The district charities, their present and future. A contribution to solving the poor problem. 1848
  • History of heretics in the Middle Ages, especially in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries, based on the sources.
    • I: History of the Neumanichaean Heretics. 1845
    • II: History of the Waldensians and related sects. 1847
    • III: History of the Pesagiers, Joachims of Floris, Amalrichs of Bena and other related sects. 1850
  • Remedy for the increasing immoralization and impoverishment of the people. A contribution to the cause of inner mission. 1851
  • The emigration. Appeal to Christian friends of people. 1853
  • The Evangelical Brethren Congregation in Herrnhut, its foundation, expansion, teaching and organization. 1854
  • The great revival in the United States of America. Basel 1859
  • Call for the formation of international societies for the provision (care) of soldiers wounded in the war. 1863
  • Annual reports of the Württemberg Medical Association No. 1 (1864 to 1866) to No. 5 (1878-81)
  • Announcements from the Württemberg Medical Association during the Franco-German War, 1870-71. 1872

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