Gustav Werner (pastor)

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Gustav Werner

Gustav Albert Werner (born March 12, 1809 in Zwiefalten ; † August 2, 1887 in Reutlingen ) was a Protestant pastor and founder of the Gustav Werner Foundation .

Life

Gustav Werner was the eldest of six children of the future finance director of Reutlingen, Johannes von Werner , and his wife, Friedericke Christiane (née Fischer). From 1815 to 1817 he lived with his grandparents in Münsingen , then he came to his uncle in Göppingen . From 1823 to 1827 Gustav Werner completed the Evangelical Seminary (grammar school) in Maulbronn Monastery and studied theology at the Tübingen Abbey from 1827 to 1832 . He then went to Strasbourg as a private tutor . There he made the acquaintance of the social diaconal life's work of Johann Friedrich Oberlin , which he took as a model.

Gustav Werner (portrait bust)

In 1834 Werner became vicar in Walddorf , where he founded the first children's rescue center for orphans, a so-called toddler and industrial school . Werner collected donations for this institution on lecture tours. There was a conflict with the church leadership. Werner then moved to Reutlingen with two employees and ten children , where he married Albertine Zwißler on November 8, 1841. In 1840 Gustav Werner moved with ten children and two helpers to a 5-room apartment, called Gottes-Hilfe, in Reutlingen and founded a "rescue house" there. Already in 1848 around 80 orphans were cared for:

“In the company of these children, father Werner was able to radiate the warmth of his loving disposition, and while working on theirs, his being transfigured and purified, which by nature had something feminine tender, maternal caring, the longer the more. He sought to actually replace the family for his children. 'The legal being', he said, which mostly prevails in institutional education, only too often has a paralyzing, even killing effect on the divine germ of life, which the parental love in the child alone knows how to care for and educate carefully enough. The main thing I want to let work on the children is the sun of motherliness, because under its influence the children thrive best. '"

Postage stamp from 1949

Soon he added a craft business to his “rescue house”. In 1855 the institution was first called the Bruderhaus , before the foundation charter of the Gustav Werner Foundation for the Bruderhaus was drawn up in 1881 . In 1884, three years before his death, Gustav Werner was made an honorary citizen of the city of Reutlingen.

The machine factory for the Bruderhaus and the paper machine factory for the Bruderhaus were also built in Reutlingen. In addition, the Bruderhaus paper mill was opened in Dettingen an der Erms in 1861 and was sold to Arjowiggins in 1981 .

In 2004 the Gustav Werner Foundation merged with Haus am Berg GmbH , Bad Urach, to form the Bruderhaus , and has since acted as the BruderhausDiakonie. Gustav Werner Foundation and Haus am Berg based in Reutlingen.

"What does not become an act has no value!"

- Gustav Werner

Works

  • Oil leaf. Intercourse between the parent company and his family , Reutlingen 1853.
  • Speak from the word. A collection of sermons, Stuttgart 1863.
  • Letters to be sent to the brothers from the Reutlingen parent company, Volume 1 1853–1863, Reutlingen 1863.
  • Send letters to the brothers from the Reutlingen parent company, Volume 2 1864–1876, Reutlingen 1876.

Remembrance day

August 1st in the Evangelical Name Calendar .

literature

  • Manfred Berger : Werner, Gustav Adolf . In: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work. Freiburg 1998, pp. 620-622.
  • Gerhard Betsch: Biographical Notes on Gustav Werner. In: Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter, year 2009, NF. No. 48, pp. 193-217.
  • Walter Göggelmann: Creating space for the kingdom of God. Kingship of Christ, eschatology and diakonia in the work of Gustav Werner (1809-1887), Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2007 (publications by the Diakoniewwissenschaftlichen Institut at Heidelberg University, Volume 31), ISBN 978-3-8253-5312-4 .
  • Walter Göggelmann: Building a house for the kingdom of God. Diakonie und Sozialform in Gustav Werner's house cooperative, Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2007 (publications of the Diakoniewwissenschaftlichen Institut at the University of Heidelberg, Volume 32) ISBN 978-3-8253-5369-8 .
  • Walter Göggelmann: Creating Justice and Peace. Gustav Werner's commitment to education and reconciliation, Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2009 (publications by the Diaconal Science Institute at the University of Heidelberg, Volume 38), ISBN 978-3-8253-5587-6 .
  • Walter Göggelmann: The "Gustav Werner Case". A conflict in the Württemberg Church, Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-7668-4205-3 .
  • Paul Krauss: "God in the machine room". The Christ Gustav Werner, Neske, Pfullingen 1980, ISBN 3-7885-0233-9 .
  • Werner Unseld, Martina Schröder, Werner Ströbele u. a .: Where Daimler met Maybach. Gustav Werner's Christian factories. Ed. Cultural Office of the City of Reutlingen . Catalog for the exhibition in the Heimatmuseum Reutlingen , June 21 - October 25, 2009. Reutlingen 2009 ISBN 978-3-939775-06-5 (see web links).
  • Werner Raupp (Ed.): Gustav Werner - the "Swabian Franziskus", in: Lived faith. Experiences and life testimonies from our country. A reading book, Metzingen / Württ .: Ernst Franz-Verlag 1993, pp. 306-316, 394 (introduction, source texts, lit.).
  • Theodor Schott :  Werner, Gustav . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, pp. 50-56.
  • Paul Wurster: Gustav Werner's life and work. Kocher, Reutlingen 1888.
  • Hartmut Zweigle: "May love and justice rule in our circle. Gustav Werner, Life and Work, Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-7668-4088-2 .
  • Markus Maurer: Diaconal action using the example of Gustav Werner. Thesis. Grin-Verlag , Munich 2013 ISBN 3-640-65057-3 .

Web links

Commons : Gustav Werner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wurster 1888, p. 112
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werner, Gustav Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor and founder of the foundation
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwiefalten , Kingdom of Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1887
Place of death Reutlingen , Kingdom of Württemberg , German Empire