Friedrich Veiel

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Friedrich Veiel (born April 29, 1866 in Calw , Northern Black Forest ; † September 22, 1950 in Heidenheim ) was a German Protestant-Pietist clergyman, missionary, inspector and head of the St. Chrischona pilgrimage mission (today: Chrischona International ) from 1909 to 1947.

Life

Veiel grew up as the oldest of three children in Calw in the northern Black Forest . His father died when he was nine years old and his mother just three years later. First an aunt looked after the orphans, then the wife of the missionary Hermann Gundert . He attended Sunday school with Johannes Hesse , who had returned to India , accepted his enthusiasm and also wanted to become a missionary. From 1880–1883 ​​he trained as a watchmaker, then in 1883 he was a journeyman in Herrenberg , 1884 in Ludwigsburg and 1885 Biberach . 1886-1891 he graduated from the Protestant mission school of the pilgrim mission on St. Chrischona in Bettingen near Basel . In 1887 he was a soldier in the 1st Baden Leibgrenadier Regiment 109.

In 1891 Veiel became a city missionary and preacher in Frankfurt am Main . In 1900 he married Emmy Rappard, the daughter of the then Chrischona inspector Carl Heinrich Rappard and his wife Dora Rappard . Afterwards, he and his wife ran the guest house, the Bible and recreation house to the mountains on St. Chrischona. They had a child together.

In 1909, when Carl Heinrich Rappard died, the committee gave Veiel the management of the plant, and he was also appointed inspector. He had to struggle with various challenges: The First World War greatly reduced the number of missionary students on St. Chrischona, and the subsequent inflation also increased the school's financial deficits, which could only be gradually removed. In his era, new Chrischona parishes emerged in Alsace, France, from 1913. He also supported the establishment of the Brunnen publishing house in Giessen and Basel. In 1925 he had the Deaconess Mother House set up in St. Chrischona, which afterwards many young women entered and became deaconesses. He was also able to accept many young men in the mission and preaching school; there were a total of 2,238 brothers, as they were then called. At the age of 71, he resigned from his post in 1947. He spent his retirement in Heidenheim, Germany, where he died in 1950.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The eight directors of Chrischona International. In: Chrischona International website
  2. family data . Georg Gottlieb "Friedrich" Veiel. In: Website of the Paul Wolfgang Merkel'schen Family Foundation Nuremberg
  3. Joachim Schnürle: From Calw out into the wide world ... In: Chrischona Panorama. 5/2016, pp. 16-17