Eduard Wächter

Eduard Wächter (born June 3, 1865 in Leonberg ; † January 20, 1947 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a theologian of the Association of Free Evangelical Churches .

Life

Wächter comes from an old Wuerttemberg pastor family. From 1893 to 1896 he was pastor at the German church in Montreux on Lake Geneva , from 1896 to 1901 pastor at the Christ Church in Frankfurt . It was during these years that he realized the need for a "biblical blueprint" for church service. In the spring of 1901 he left the regional church and founded the “Christian Congregation” in Frankfurt, which later joined the Association of Free Evangelical Congregations. In 1935, when he was seventy, the guard, who had been unmarried throughout his life, placed his duties in the hands of his successor Karl Glebe.

Works

• Regional church and free church , in: Der Gärtner 6/1898, pp. 228–229.
• Volkskirche or Congregation? Trowel and Sword, Book 1, undated (around 1921).
• Church discipline. Federal publishing house , 1927.

literature

• Hartmut Weyel:  Guardian, Eduard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8 , Sp. 1419-1425.
• Hartmut Weyel: Church according to the biblical blueprint. Eduard Wächter: Shepherd, teacher and spiritual father of the Free Evangelical Congregations (1st and 2nd part), in: Christsein Heute 3 a. 4/2008, pp. 56-58 and 46-49.
• Johannes Schergens: Report on the Christian community in Frankfurt a. M. and the inauguration of the hall on March 26, 1905 , in: Der Gärtner 13/1905, pp. 132–133.141-142.157-158.
• August Jung: The foundation of the “Christian Congregation” in Frankfurt am Main , in: 100 Years of the Free Evangelical Congregation Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt 2001, pp. 14-27

Web links

• Guardian, Eduard on Faith Voice - The Protestant Archive on the Internet