Klaus Saur (clergyman)

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Klaus Saur (born June 3, 1940 in Engen ; † July 29, 2014 ) was a German New Apostolic clergyman and served a total of 45 years as minister in the New Apostolic Church . Most recently he worked as a District Apostle for 25 years . In this function, Saur headed district churches in Germany as church president (including Baden and Hesse; most recently the district church of southern Germany ).

Childhood and youth

Klaus Saur was born in 1940 as the first child of his parents in Engen, Konstanz district in Baden-Württemberg . In 1944, his father died in Russia during World War II . This forced his mother to look after him and his two younger siblings at an early age. He himself describes that he and his siblings were raised very early and strictly in the Catholic faith .

At the age of 17 he learned about the New Apostolic Church. On August 6, 1959, the then District Apostle Friedrich Hahn sealed the family and became a member of the New Apostolic Church.

Seriously concerned and with strong doubts as to whether it was right to join the NAK, he left the Waldshut church , where he had just learned during a divine service that Chief Apostle Bischoff had died and his prophecy had not been fulfilled. However, he resolved to do what District Apostle Hahn was doing. He stayed in the New Apostolic Church, so did Klaus Saur.

In August 1963 he married Irmtraud Höschele, whom he had met in the New Apostolic youth. They had a daughter and a son.

Office run

Office date
Sub-deacon January 15, 1961
priest October 18, 1970
evangelist January 18, 1976
District Evangelist November 21, 1976
bishop 19th September 1979
District Apostle April 19, 1981
Retirement April 23, 2006

Assignments:

  • April 19, 1981: District Apostle for the Baden District Church
  • 1984 to December 1995: additional District Apostle for the District Church of Hesse / Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland
  • December 10, 1995: District Apostle for the District Church of Baden-Württemberg
  • January 1, 2002: District Apostle for the District Church of Southern Germany (Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria)
  • April 23, 2006: retirement

Activities in the New Apostolic Church

In the communities of Waldshut and Jestetten

Even before his ordination, Klaus Saur took up several activities with his head of the Waldshut community. He joined the male choir and supported the headmaster and the deacons in the house-to-house missionary work, the so-called "vineyard work" in the NAK (which was abolished at the beginning of the 1990s). In the deacon office he was also active as a teacher for children and youth and as a conductor of the choir and orchestra.

During his time as a subdeacon, he stayed for a while at the Jestetten congregation , which he visited with the local chief; he also supported them with visits to the sick.

As District Apostle of Baden-Württemberg and southern Germany

Work area in the south and south-west of Germany restructured. Under this heading, the church magazine "Our Family" reported in its edition of January 20, 1996 on one of the most decisive personnel decisions by Chief Apostle Richard Fehr . He announced it on Sunday, December 10, 1995, in a church service in Nürtingen . On that day, District Apostle Karl Kühnle retired after 20 years in this office. In his place, District Apostle Klaus Saur was commissioned to take over the work areas of Württemberg and Bavaria.

Almost 94,000 New Apostolic Christians in Württemberg and Bavaria as well as hundreds of thousands in around 30 mission countries were affected by this change. Together with around 29,000 believers in Baden , District Apostle Klaus Saur now led the largest European District Church.

One of the first measures that he tackled in the new area of ​​work was the merger of the two existing church administrations. The offices in Karlsruhe were given up in the course of 1996. Employees moved or from then on commuted to Stuttgart-Degerloch. District Apostle Karl Kühnle had a large administration building built there in Heinestrasse in 1988. From there, all ecclesiastical affairs of the three district churches of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria - including the 30 states that are looked after - are controlled. On January 1, 1997, the two District Churches became one legally. It finally merged with Bavaria on January 1, 2002 to form the District Church of Southern Germany. His term was succeeded by Michael Ehrich on.

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SURNAME Saur, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German New Apostolic clergyman and minister
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Narrow
DATE OF DEATH 29th July 2014