Johann Heinrich Lindermann

Johann Heinrich Lindermann (born February 20, 1802 in Neuss ; † February 1, 1892 in Elberfeld ) was a German ribbon weaver , colporteur , evangelist as well as dissident and founder of a free church and autochthonous Sabbatarian community, which became the forerunners of today's Free Church of the Seventh Day -Adventists in Germany counted.

Life

Childhood and early years

Lindermann was born to Wilhelm Lindermann and Elisabeth Balters. The entry in the Acte de naissance was made under the name Jean Henry , because Neuss was under French administration at that time. He was baptized Reformed . His father Wilhelm Lindermann came from Saarn , which was part of the church in Mülheim an der Ruhr , his mother Elisabeth from Barmen . Johann Heinrich Lindermann's parents were married on September 3, 1797 by Pastor Matthias Krall (1760–1832) in the Gemarker church .

The family practiced the ribbon weaving trade . Shortly after 1802 the family settled in Saarn again, at least five siblings of Johann Heinrich Lindermann are proven. Due to the geographical location of Saarn, the family was more oriented towards the Otterbeck pilgrims' hut than towards Mülheim an der Ruhr. The Lindermann family had been part of Gerhard Tersteegen's circle of friends for several generations . Likewise, the family of mother Elisabeth Balters is part of Gerhard Tersteegen's circle of friends in the Reformed community of Barmen- Gemarke around Engelbert Evertsens (1722–1807).

Johann Heinrich Lindermann learned the craft of ribbon advertising, but later also worked as a stone turner, sandformer and boatman and then as a silk weaver. After the early death of his father, he spent a lot of time with both maternal grandparents in Barmen. There he came into contact with the awakened circles around the later missionaries Karl Wilhelm Isenberg (1806-1864) and Heinrich Christian Werth / Henry Christian Werth (1805-1855).

On July 24, 1830, he married the carpenter's daughter Elisabeth Buchmüller in the Reformed old town church in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The couple initially lived in Saarn . The marriage resulted in nine children. A turning point in Lindermann's life occurred during the awakening of the Ruhr boatmen (1843 to 1846).

Colporteur and evangelist

Forty-year-old Johann Heinrich Lindermann started working as a colporteur for the Bergische Bibelgesellschaft from 1846 . First he sold Bibles on the Rhine steamships with emigrants to North America . He then worked as far as Bonn , but mainly in the Niederbergisches Land , from 1848 also in the Oberbergisches . In 1849 he was released.

From 1849 he worked for the Evangelical Society for Germany . He was mainly active between Mülheim an der Ruhr and Solingen . In 1850 he resigned from the company.

From 1850 - a singularity in the history of the free church movements of the time - he was employed by the businessman Hermann Heinrich Grafe (1818–1869) as a 'private evangelist' and moved with his family with seven children to the pilgrims' hut near Heiligenhaus. Formally it belonged to Hermann Heinrich Grafe by now . In 1850 he was appointed to the Evangelical Brothers' Association as a paid teaching brother . He worked here mainly in the courts of Wald , Hilden , Haan , Velbert , Kettwig , Gruiten , Mettmann and Neviges .

Time of the "Bergische Baptism Movement"

In 1851 or early 1852 at the latest, Johann Heinrich Lindermann was baptized again as an adult by Friedrich Arnold Herring (1812–1908) . Shortly before, in the context of the Evangelical Church Congress in Elberfeld in 1851, Herring was baptized again by the Baptist preacher Johann Gerhard Oncken (1800-1884) under the influence of August Rauschenbusch (1816–1899) . In connection with his turn to Baptism , he resigned from the Evangelical Brotherhood.

Church planter and nonconformist

He began to baptize adults himself and consequently resigned from the Evangelical Church with parts of his family at the end of 1852 . From December 1852 he and Wilhelm Siepmann founded the “ Baptized Christian Congregation” in the pilgrims' hut Otterbeck, in Heiligenhaus , Velbert , Kettwig , Haan , Wald , Gräfrath , Auf der Tesche , which at that time did not belong to Vohwinkel . The statute and beliefs were almost identical to the confession of the Hamburg Baptists , who were founded in Barmen under Julius Köbner (1806–1884). In cooperation with Herring at the time of the Bergische baptism movement , the following is said to have been over 500 people.

In 1852 he had to leave the Otterbeck pilgrim's hut with his family and lived first in Benrath , then in Elberfeld am Nützenberg , before settling permanently on his own rural property on Kiesberg . His livelihood remained his own small silk weaving mill on Kiesberg for years . Probably under the influence of the writings of Ignaz Lindl (1774–1845) and even more so those of Johann Jakob Wirz (1778–1858), who was also a weaver, the realignment of the communities he founded and looked after took place. From 1856, for example, in Solingen and Dorp , later also in Cologne through members of his family, this with a significantly changed statute and statute (creed). The eschatology and the doctrine of the "kingdom of peace" and "keeping all commandments" became significant. The beginning of the Sabbath observance up to the sanctification of the Sabbath at the latest from 1867 can be observed here. He wrote his own hymn book , including Sabbath songs. Due to family connections, the community activities were relocated to Mönchengladbach .

In 1875 he got in touch with the Seventh-day Adventists in Basel . In the same year John Nevins Andrews and Jakob Erzberger came to Vohwinkel. Major parts of the members of the "Baptized Christ Church" founded by Lindermann in Vohwinkel and Mönchengladbach as well as parts of his family joined the Seventh-day Adventists .

At Pentecost 1887 there was a meeting with Ellen G. White and her translator Ludwig Richard Conradi in Vohwinkel.

After the death of his wife Elisabeth Buchmüller and the departure of the children and their emigration to Brazil, he became increasingly lonely in old age. He gave up the property on Kiesberg. Lindermann died in Elberfeld at the beginning of February 1892.

Publications

The publications of Johann Heinrich Lindermann have so far only been documented in literature as far as possible:

Cause why so little fruit in the Lord's vineyard, Langenberg 1850
Singing booklet of the (baptized) Christian community, Langenberg - Mönchengladbach , approx. 1869 (only one copy preserved in the Historical Archives of Seventh-day Adventists in Europe / Friedensau ).
Commemoration of the Sabbath day, Barmen 1872
The Thousand Year Reich, Elberfeld 1872

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Johann Heinrich Lindermann. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume XVIII. Supplement V, Traugott Bautz, Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7 , Sp. 836-838.
Wolfgang E. Heinrichs : Free churches - a religious form of organization of the modern age. Shown on the basis of the origin and first development of five free churches in the early industrialized Wuppertal. A contribution to the mentality and organizational history of the Wuppertal . Phil. Diss. Wuppertal 1987; published under the title: Free Churches - a modern church form. Formation and development of five free churches in Wuppertal . Cologne, Gießen and Wuppertal 1989; 2nd edition Gießen and Wuppertal 1990.
August Jung: When the fathers were still friends, From the history of the free church movement, Church history monographs (KGM), Volume 5, R. Brockhaus Verlag Wuppertal / Oncken Verlag Wuppertal and Kassel / Bundes-Verlag, Witten 1999, ISBN 3-417- 29435-5 (Brockhaus Verlag) ISBN 3-933660-09-2 (Bundes-Verlag)
Gerhart Werner: The quiet in the city a reflection on the sects, free churches and religious communities of Wuppertal, contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal , Volume 3, Abendland-Verlag, 1956, ( digitized )

Web links

Max Goebel: The Brotherhood and Baptism on the Lower Rhine. (Excerpts; PDF).
Johann Gottlieb Heinrich: The sectarian movements in mountain and mark. (PDF).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Daniel Heinz: Johann Heinrich Lindermann . In: Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (Ed.): Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) . Volume XVIII. Supplement V. Traugott Bautz, Herzberg 2001, ISBN ,, Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7 , p. Col. 836-838 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l August Jung: When the fathers were still friends: from the history of the free church movement . In: Church history monographs (KGM) . tape 5 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1999, ISBN 3-417-29435-5 , p. 39 ff .
↑ ^a ^b Friedhelm Lefherz: Evangelical Free Churches and within the church communities in Mülheim an der Ruhr . In: Geschichtsverein Mülheim an der Ruhr eV (Hrsg.): Journal of the Geschichtsverein Mülheim an der Ruhr eV issue 80/2007. History Association Mülheim an der Ruhr eVc / o State Archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, Mülheim an der Ruhr 2007, p. 25th ff .
^ Karl Friedrich Ledderhose: Karl Wilhelm Isenberg. In: [online version] Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 14, pp. 614-618. 1881, Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
↑ August Jung: When the fathers were still friends: from the history of the free church movement . In: Church history monographs (KGM) . tape 5 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1999, ISBN 3-417-29435-5 , p. 70 ff .
↑ ^a ^b August Jung: When the fathers were still friends: from the history of the free church movement . In: Church history monographs (KGM) . tape 5 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1999, ISBN 3-417-29435-5 , p. 138 .
↑ August Jung: When the fathers were still friends: from the history of the free church movement . In: Church history monographs (KGM) . tape 5 . Wuppertal 1999, ISBN 3-417-29435-5 , p. 65 .
↑ August Jung: When the fathers were still friends: from the history of the free church movement . In: Church history monographs (KGM) . tape 5 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1999, ISBN 3-417-29435-5 , p. 137, footnote 335 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lindermann, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ribbon weaver, colporteur, evangelist and dissident
DATE OF BIRTH	February 20, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neuss
DATE OF DEATH	February 1, 1892
Place of death	Elberfeld

[:0-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Daniel Heinz: Johann Heinrich Lindermann . In: Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (Ed.): Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) . Volume XVIII. Supplement V. Traugott Bautz, Herzberg 2001, ISBN ,, Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7 , p. Col. 836-838 .

[:1-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l August Jung: When the fathers were still friends: from the history of the free church movement . In: Church history monographs (KGM) . tape 5 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1999, ISBN 3-417-29435-5 , p. 39 ff .

[:2-3] Friedhelm Lefherz: Evangelical Free Churches and within the church communities in Mülheim an der Ruhr . In: Geschichtsverein Mülheim an der Ruhr eV (Hrsg.): Journal of the Geschichtsverein Mülheim an der Ruhr eV issue 80/2007. History Association Mülheim an der Ruhr eVc / o State Archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, Mülheim an der Ruhr 2007, p. 25th ff .

[4] Karl Friedrich Ledderhose: Karl Wilhelm Isenberg. In: [online version] Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 14, pp. 614-618. 1881, Retrieved April 28, 2020 .

[5] August Jung: When the fathers were still friends: from the history of the free church movement . In: Church history monographs (KGM) . tape 5 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1999, ISBN 3-417-29435-5 , p. 70 ff .

[:3-6] August Jung: When the fathers were still friends: from the history of the free church movement . In: Church history monographs (KGM) . tape 5 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1999, ISBN 3-417-29435-5 , p. 138 .

[7] August Jung: When the fathers were still friends: from the history of the free church movement . In: Church history monographs (KGM) . tape 5 . Wuppertal 1999, ISBN 3-417-29435-5 , p. 65 .

[8] August Jung: When the fathers were still friends: from the history of the free church movement . In: Church history monographs (KGM) . tape 5 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1999, ISBN 3-417-29435-5 , p. 137, footnote 335 .