Heinrich Tränker

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Heinrich Tränker (born August 6, 1880 ; † May 22, 1956 ) was a German bookseller , antiquarian , occultist , Rosicrucian and theosophist . He was also known by his lodge names , Frater Recnartus , Garuda , and Henkelkreuzmann . Heinrich Tränker was also the founder of the pansophic lodge , from which the Fraternitas Saturni later emerged on May 8, 1926 .

life and work

Tränker was a member of the International Theosophical Brotherhood founded by Franz Hartmann . On May 10, 1920 Heinrich Tränker was awarded the X ° (Rex Summus, highest degree) of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) by Theodor Reuss , without Reuss ever having met Tränker. During the First World War he founded the Pansophic Movement in Leipzig. As part of the pansophic study, students should learn philosophical, historical, mystical, astrological, theosophical, occult, Rosicrucian and many other things. “The pansophers send their students on the practical occult path and have no prejudice or fear psychosis about a left or right, black or white path. Sooner or later, all paths must lead to the goal. Every path is the right one, which leads to inner immersion, to the recognition of the unity on which everything is based and to self-knowledge ”.

In 1924 Tränker got in touch with Eugen Grosche , who then founded the Pansophische Lodge in Berlin. On June 22, 1925, Aleister Crowley arrived at Heinrich Tränker's house in Weida to initiate the Weida Conference , at which Crowley was proclaimed World Savior. At the beginning Tränker was fascinated by Crowley and his ideas, but even during the meeting there were disputes between the protagonists. In the same year Tränker revoked the confession of the Weida conference and has since been viewed by Crowley only as Judas , with Crowely attempting to discredit him or to denounce him in the OTO. Spurred on by Crowley, Albin Grau asked Tränker to resign from the Grand Master's office of the Pan-American Lodge, but Tränker refused. As a result of the falling out between Tränker, Crowley and Grau, the "Berlin Pansophical Lodge of the Light-Seeking Brothers, Orient Berlin" was dissolved on April 1, 1926. Just a few weeks later, on May 8, 1926, the Fraternitas Saturni was founded by Eugen Grosche and four other former pansophen.

Allegedly Heinrich Tränker is said to have asked all Masonic lodges in 1928 to arrange for Aleister Crowley to be arrested if he wanted to enter Germany. However, this rumor was launched by a former companion of Heinrich Tränker, the theosophist and Crowley supporter Martha Küntzel. It is true that Tränker filed a complaint against Crowley with the Leipzig police in 1931 at the instigation of Henri Birven. Also in 1928 Tränker tried to become head of the irregular “Old and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of Germany”, the Swedenborg Rite of Masons , the Ordo Templi Orientis , the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn , the “Misram Rite”, the “Hermetic Brotherhood of the Light ”, the Fraternitas Rosea Crucis , the New Gnostic Church and the New Illuminati .

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  1. ↑ Horst E. Miers : Lexicon of secret knowledge. Goldmann, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-442-11708-9 .
  2. ↑ Volker Lechler: Heinrich Tränker as theosophist, Rosicrucian and Pansoph. Pp. 141-157.
  3. ↑ Recnartus (d. I. Heinrich Tränker): Pansophisches Handbuch aller Wissenschaften. Vol. 2, Bl. 8.
  4. ↑ Volker Lechler: Heinrich Tränker as theosophist, Rosicrucian and Pansoph. The speech given by Eugen Grosche on the closure of the lodge p. 343.
  5. ↑ Volker Lechler: The first years of the Fraternitas Saturni. Illustration of the deed of incorporation pp. 80–81.
  6. ↑ Volker Lechler: Heinrich Tränker as theosophist, Rosicrucian and Pansoph. Illustration of the reply from the Leipzig Police President, pp. 492–495.
  • Recnartus (d. I. Heinrich Tränker): Pansophisches Handbuch aller Wissenschaften, Vol. 1 and 2, Berlin 1930.

literature

  • Peter-Robert König : The best from Heinrich Tränker. Working group for religious and ideological issues, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-927890-29-4 .
  • Heinrich Tränker: The pansophy of the Hermetic Brotherhood of the Rose Cross. Working group for religious and ideological issues, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-921513-55-3 .
  • Alexander Popiol, Raimund Schrader: Gregor A. Gregorius - mystic of dark light. Esoterischer Verlag, Bürstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-932928-40-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Drinker, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller, antiquarian, occultist and theosophist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1880
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1956