Konrad Öttinger

Konrad Öttinger , also Oettinger , called the Swabian (* before 1530 in Pforzheim ; † 1540 ), was a Protestant theologian and reformer.

Life

Öttinger became a preacher in Kassel , and since 1530 court preacher of Landgrave Philip of Hesse . He accompanied the sovereign on his travels. In this way he came to Höxter in 1533 when the Landgrave was holding the meeting of princes there. Before the negotiations began, Öttinger preached every morning. Citizens came in large numbers to these sermons. Since they were determined to establish a Protestant church system, they asked Öttinger for advice. Specifically, the court preacher had nothing to say to them. They should wait and pray that the legal authorities would help them.

As the patron of the city, which belonged to the territory of the imperial abbot of Corvey , the landgrave, however, decreed that from now on preaching should take place in Höxter according to the norms of the Augsburg Confession . The landgrave valued the learned Swabian and drew him to the Ziegenhain convent . In 1534 he left it to Duke Ulrich von Württemberg , who used him as 1st court preacher in Stuttgart to push through the Reformation in Swabia . On May 16, 1534, Öttinger gave the first Protestant sermon in the Stuttgart collegiate church . His signature can also be found under the Schmalkaldic articles . He served as court preacher until his death in 1540.

literature

• Real Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church , Volume 14, page 521.
• Württemberg church history . Calw 1893, p. 275.
• Robert Stupperich : Johann Winnistede, "the first evangelist from Höxter" . In: Yearbook of the Association for Westphalian Church History 45/46, 1952/53, pp. 364–372.
• O. Hütteroth: Old Hessen pastors of the Reformation period . Marburg 1966, page 256

Web links

• Specialized information from the Württemberg State Library