Ludwig Ankenbrand

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Ludwig Ankenbrand (born April 21, 1888 in Nuremberg , † 1971 in Sindelfingen ) was a German free religious clergyman , writer and journalist .

Life

After graduating from the Realgymnasium in Stuttgart , he published his first book "Tierschutz und moderne Weltanschauung" (1906) at the age of 18 and "Darwin's life and teaching" (1907, third edition in 1908) the following year. He was an animal rights activist , a vegetarian and became a member of the German Vegetarian Association based on Eduard Baltzer (1814–1887) and founded in 1892 . Furthermore, he campaigned for nature conservation . ( Naturschutz und Naturschutz-Parke (1911)) Together with his wife Lisbeth (marriage 1910) he was editor of the reform magazine Gesundes Leben in Leipzig in 1911 . There he also met the wandering nature prophet Gusto Gräser . In February 1912 he set out with his wife, his sister-in-law Minna Symanzick and three other ( vegetarian ) colleagues as well as a dog and a donkey from Taucha (near Leipzig) on ​​a world hike . In addition to scientific purposes, this “research trip” was intended to serve “the study of reform associations, vegetarian organizations, good temple lodges , animal welfare , the way of life of the mostly vegetarian peoples and religions, especially Asia ( Buddhism , Parseism , Jainism, etc.)”. The hike went via Jena , Nuremberg, through Austria and Switzerland to Monte Verità near Ascona, where he visited Karl Gräser , then on to Italy . On Capri , where he met the painter Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach , he lost two of his fellow immigrants who joined the lonely emigrant. The ship then went to Ceylon via Sicily , Egypt , Syria and Palestine . Ankenbrand lived there for several months in a Buddhist monastery . He and his wife were interned as an enemy foreigner in 1918 and had to stay in a camp near Canberra until the end of the First World War before the family could return to Stuttgart .

He worked as the press manager of the Deutsches Auslandsinstitut , as editor-in-chief of the Stuttgarter Illustrierte and after 1945 in the Stuttgart City Archives. In 1947, together with Georg Krauskopf , he founded the "Buddhist Community", which adhered to the Theravada tradition and was dedicated to studying text. The group joined the German Buddhist Union , but disbanded in 1960. For almost 50 years he gave religious instruction and youth consecration classes for the Free Religious Community of Stuttgart and from 1949 to 1950 published the free religious magazine Licht und Weg .

Works

Scientific works
  • Animal welfare and modern worldview . 1906
  • What do you have to know about our native housebirds? . Otto Meißner Verlag, Hamburg, undated (around the 1920s).
  • Our little birds air and suffering. Bird protection poems - . Berlin Animal Welfare Association, Berlin around 1930.
  • Foreign housebirds. What do you have to know about the foreign housebirds? A handbook for bird lovers , Otto Meißners Verlag, Hamburg o. J.
  • Nature conservation and conservation parks . Kupferschmid Verlag, Munich 1940
  • Hermann Gradl, Ludwig Ankenbrand The beautiful German south . by Hädecke (1949)
Religious works
  • Darwin's life and teaching , Nuremberg 1907
  • Ludwig Lang and Ludwig Ankenbrand: Buddha and BuddhismÄ Stuttgart, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, 1924.
  • Free Religion - Religious Freedom . Free religious lectures by Ludwig Ankenbrand (1948).
items
  • Bird feeding in winter , leaflet No. 330, Dt. Animal Welfare Advertising Service, Berlin 1915
  • Useful insects and the like other small animals , leaflet No. 331., Dt. Animal Welfare Advertising Service, Berlin 1915
  • Useful but misunderstood nocturnal animals , leaflet No. 332., Dt. Animal Welfare Advertising Service, Berlin 1915
  • Useful but unrecognized reptiles and amphibians . Leaflet No. 333., Dt. Animal Welfare Advertising Service, Berlin 1915
  • German Buddhists on Ceylon in Die Loge. A monthly. Born in 1914, issue 3 and 4
editor
  • Wilhelm Geiger, Wolfgang Bonn, Ludwig Ankenbrand: Journal for Buddhism . Oskar Schloss, Munich 1921

literature

  • Eckhart Pilick: Lexicon of Free Religious Persons , Rohrbach o. J.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The art of living. Journal of personal culture. Rundschau in the field of modern reform work, 1911, No. 16 (August 16), p. 401.
personal data
SURNAME Ankenbrand, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German free religious clergyman, writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH 1971
Place of death Sindelfingen