Friedrich Stanger

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Friedrich Stanger (born February 5, 1855 in Möttlingen ; † March 13, 1934 there ) was a pietistic preacher, pastor and healer.

Friedrich Stanger around 1930

Life

Friedrich Stanger was born out of wedlock to Barbara Stanger and grew up with his grandparents up to the age of eight and later with his mother and stepfather in Bad Liebenzell. He had to break off an apprenticeship in a gold goods factory in Pforzheim because of a lung disease. He returned to Möttlingen, where he worked in agriculture. There he had his first experience with inner voices. Seduced by the stepfather and a teacher, he began to drink. As a result, he got into difficulties at various workplaces, including as a groom for a stable master Fritz in Stuttgart, he almost died from falling under a horse.

After his marriage on April 17, 1881 Karoline butcher from Ochsenburg he worked in the Etuifabrik Bachmann in Stuttgart; later he tried his hand at self-employed case maker and failed. He continued to drink in marriage and had numerous visions and auditions . A certain change occurred due to two serious illnesses in his wife and the death of one of his daughters, but only after he had sought salvation in vain from the Social Democrats and then joined the old Pietist community , he was able to overcome his alcoholism. For some time he lived from the sale of a healing ointment, the recipe of which had revealed his inner voices to him. This finally prompted him to return to Möttlingen in 1907, when he was already suffering from gout , where he first rented the brickworks and in 1909 founded the “Rettungsarche” rest home, which in a vision had appeared to him as a house in the field of corn.

Even before his return he had been awarded healings through prayer and the laying on of hands, so now numerous healing seekers traveled to Möttlingen to be freed from their ailments by “Father Stanger” or “Friederle”. Stanger self-published several writings, including his autobiography.

Grave cross at Möttlingen cemetery

Rescue ark and Möttlinger gatherings

Stanger's “Rettungsarche” was forcibly closed or misappropriated during the Nazi era , but resumed operations soon after the end of the Second World War . The facility was expanded several times. Today the house offers space for over 80 overnight guests; the prayer room has space for over 800 people. The prayer room was inaugurated in 1932; the organ with more than 1400 pipes and 24 registers is a donation from a converted and healed diamond dealer. The glass windows in the gable show people in the flow of time, Jesus Christ as the victor based on a word from pastor Christoph Blumhardt and the house in the Ährenfeld, which Stanger had seen in an early vision. The preaching and pastoral work is in the hands of lay brothers.

On September 13th, 2009 the centenary of the “rescue ark” was celebrated. "Möttlinger Meetings" take place in 17 other locations in southern Germany.

Works

  • Is this not a fire that is saved from the fire? , 1911
  • CV of father Stanger. Told by himself , 14th edition 2009
  • Jesus is victor. Messenger from the rescue ark , 1924 ff.
  • Seeds , 10th edition, 2005
  • R. Kägi, Das Rettungsbuch , 3rd edition Bad Liebenzell 1998

literature

  • Heinrich Dallmeyer, what do we have to think of Möttlingen? Ihloff, Neumünster 1924
  • Walter Michaelis, A word about Friedrich Stanger and his effectiveness , Bethel 1925
  • Th. Löhe, The Truth About Möttlingen , 1925
  • Bernhard Jansa, today's Möttlingen , Neudietendorf 1930
  • J. Schlatter, Möttlingen and its importance for the church , 1933
  • J. Schlatter, Der Friederle von Möttlingen , 2nd edition Bad Liebenzell 2006
  • M. Beil-Haase, The Holy Sanatorium , 1979
  • Festschrift 100 years of the Möttlingen Rescue Ark , Bad Liebenzell 2009
  • H. Bingel, ... and his works tell , 2nd edition Bad Liebenzell 2013
  • H. Bingel, Come here, I want to tell ... , 2nd edition Bad Liebenzell 2013
  • H. Bingel, Come here, I want to tell ... , Russian 1st edition Meinerzhagen 2012
  • Hermann Ehmer:  Stanger, Friedrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 1159-1160.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blumhardt's successor in Möttlingen was Friedrich Stanger ( Memento from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Rescue arche Möttlingen ( Memento from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ The "RettungsArche" turns 100 , article from September 9, 2009 ( Memento from September 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Stanger, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Father Stanger, Friederle von Möttlingen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pietistic preacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Möttlingen
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1934
Place of death Möttlingen