Friedrich Mayer (teacher)

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Friedrich Mayer (born April 22, 1881 in Heimerdingen , † December 12, 1946 in Münsingen (Württemberg) ) was a German elementary school teacher and author of pietistic writings.

Life

Mayer was born as the son of the weaver Friedrich Mayer in Heimerdingen. From 1895 he attended the teachers' seminar in Nagold and after passing the elementary school service exam he became a teacher in Pfahlbronn in 1900 , in Böckingen in 1901 , in Tübingen in 1903 and in Münsingen in the same year, where he had held a permanent teaching position at the elementary school from 1910. After suffering a heart attack in 1933, he was retired in 1935.

In Münsingen, Mayer was an active member of the old Pietist congregation and, until the end, head of the Hahn community there . As a devout Christian, he was in opposition to National Socialism and, for example, refused to raise the swastika flag at the community center in June 1940 after the Battle of Flanders , for which he was taken into protective custody for three weeks and sentenced in an official criminal case. The community house had to be sold to the NSDAP. In 1942 Mayer was reactivated for school service. Another official criminal case for refusing to show the German greeting ended in 1944 with the withdrawal of part of his pension. Mayer died in Münsingen in 1946. He found his final resting place in the cemetery of his home parish Heimerdingen.

Publications

Mayer published numerous writings in the sense of the Hahn community, which were later reissued by Friedrich Mayer's circle of friends.

  • Who justifies the wicked. Daily devotions . Published by the Friedrich Mayers Circle of Friends. Metzingen 1996
  • The life of Jesus. Notes on the four Gospels Published by the Friedrich Mayers Circle of Friends, 2nd edition, Metzingen 1989
  • Righteousness from faith . Metzingen 1986
  • In the school of Jesus: ABC d. holy knowledge . Metzingen 1985
  • God's guides in the old covenant: those who seek light on themselves . Metzingen 1980
  • The reason of the prophets. Part 2: Reflections on the prophets Jonah, Micah and Malachi . Metzingen 1974
  • The new creation. Floor plan d. christl. Knowledge represented by the central thoughts of teachers d. Truth . Metzingen 1972
  • Light on a dark path. Words . Metzingen 1956

literature

  • Pious hour man goes his way. Born Heimerdinger tried in his own way to resist the National Socialists . In: Leonberger Kreiszeitung, January 11, 1994

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personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German elementary school teacher and author of pietistic writings
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Heimerdingen
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1946
Place of death Münsingen (Württemberg)