Johann Klopreis

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Johann Klopreis also Klopriß and Cloprys (* around 1500 in Bottrop ; † February 1, 1535 in Brühl near Cologne ; executed) was Anabaptist preacher in Münster .

Life

Vicar

Johann Klopreis was born around 1500 in Bottrop in Vest Recklinghausen as the son of a Schröder . He studied in Cologne from 1518 to 1521 and graduated with a master's degree . He then took over several vicariate positions as a priest , for example in Wesel , Bislich and Büderich .

In Büderich he met the Reformation -minded Latin teacher Adolf Clarenbach . Together with him, Klopreis spread the Lutheran teachings on the Lower Rhine . In Buederich he lives with a wealthy woman in concubinage and has four children with her. Because of his reformatory activities, Clarenbach had to leave Büderich. Klopreis was summoned to Cologne for the same reason, where he was forced to withdraw in 1526. Since Klopreis continued the Reformation preaching activity and even took Clarenbach into his home, he was again summoned to the court in Cologne. This time he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Clarenbach, who had accompanied him to Cologne, was also imprisoned. Klopreis succeeded with the help of Theodor Fabricius in the New Year's Eve 1528 flight; Clarenbach was later executed.

Predicant

After his escape from Cologne, Klopreis was accepted by Drosten Werner von Pallandt in Wassenberg . He was employed as a chaplain and later also worked in the town church. He continued to preach evangelical thought and gave the Lord's Supper in both forms (bread and wine). Other like-minded preachers were active in the vicinity of Wassenberg. Heinrich Roll exerted a special influence on the toilet price. Through him he was with the sacramental doctrine of Zwingli announced. According to his own statements, he had already preached against infant baptism in Wassenberg . When the new church order was introduced in Jülich after four undisturbed years , Klopreis was forced to leave Wassenberg. Like Heinrich Roll before him, he went to Münster , where the Reformation had been successfully carried out under Bernd Rothmann .

baptist

When the Klopreis arrived in Münster in February 1532, the Reformation had entered a decisive phase. He was asked by Rothmann and Roll to accept a position as a preacher. Klopreis had his wife and children follow suit and, like the other Wassenberg preachers, took part in spreading the new teaching. With them he took part in the further development of the Anabaptist kingdom . So he was with them in the January 1533 re-baptism give and took on the orders of the spiritual leaders a second wife. When messengers were sent in all directions to support Münster in October 1534, he went to Warendorf with Gottfried Stralen and four other preachers to do missionary work in the city. They were able to inspire the council and the population for Anabaptism . But after just a few days Warendorf was subjugated again by Bishop Franz von Waldeck . Klopreis and his fellow apostles were arrested. Four of the preachers and the Warendorfer ringleaders were executed in the market square. Klopreis and Stralen were handed over to the clerical court under the Archbishop of Cologne . Both were sentenced to death and died on February 1, 1535 as martyrs at the stake in front of the royal palace of the archbishop and elector .

→ Cologne judiciary from the Middle Ages to the modern age (especially spiritual court)

A confession made under embarrassing interrogation has been preserved from captivity in Cologne . It gives a vivid insight into the life of Klopreis and the events in the Anabaptist kingdom of Münster.

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  • Confessions of both Sacraments, Doepe vnde Nachtmaele, the Praedicanten tho Munster . 1533 (together with Bernhard Rothmann and Heinrich Roll)
  • Confessions of the notorious re-baptismal preacher Johann Klopreiß , 1535. In: Joseph Niesert : Münsterische Urkundensammlung. I , Coesfeld 1826. pp. 102-136. On-line

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  1. ↑ Confessions 1535. pp. 109f.
personal data
SURNAME Klopreis, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cloprys, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baptist preacher in Munster
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Bottrop
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1535
Place of death Brühl near Cologne