Ludwig Hofacker

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Ludwig Hofacker (1798–1828)

Wilhelm Gustav Ludwig Hofacker (born April 15, 1798 in Wildbad in the Black Forest , † November 18, 1828 in Rielingshausen near Marbach am Neckar ) was a Protestant pastor .

Life

Ludwig Hofacker was the third son of the pastor Karl Friedrich Hof (f) acker (1758-1824). He first attended education in Esslingen for a year and a half, then the Evangelical Seminars (grammar schools) in the monasteries Schöntal (1813) and Maulbronn (1814-1816). He then studied Protestant theology in Tübingen from 1816 . In 1818 he graduated with a master's degree.

On August 18, 1820, in connection with a fall in Clinicumsgasse in Tübingen, he suffered a serious collapse in health from which he never really recovered. From 1820 on he was vicar in Stetten im Remstal and later in Plieningen until 1821. From March 1823 he worked as an assistant preacher at the Leonhard Church in Stuttgart , representing his sick father.

This is where Ludwig Hofacker's special preaching gift became apparent. The church was often overcrowded an hour before the service began. The listeners often came from far away. In the post-Napoleonic period Hofacker's Christocentric sermons were very attractive, but his sermon volumes are still being reprinted in many languages. Other elements in the sermons were the call to decision and the fight against lukewarmness . The congregation of the Leonhardskirche wanted Hofacker to have a permanent position. The church administration rejected this request. She still struggled with the pietism renewal movement . Instead, Ludwig Hofacker was transferred from July 1, 1826 to the 450-person community of Rielingshausen, a current district of Marbach am Neckar, where he died on November 18, 1828 at the age of only 30 years.

Honors

Since 1959, a loose association of Pietists within the church has been called the Ludwig Hofacker Association , which in 2011 became a Living Congregation. Christ Movement in Württemberg eV renamed. Its members are represented in the "Living Congregation" discussion group within the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .

The Evangelical Church in Marbach-Rielingshausen (his last sermon church) and the Evangelical parish hall in Bad Wildbad are named after him. A Protestant church and the associated parish in Stuttgart also bear his name. It is one of the so-called Bartning-Notkirchen , one of the first church buildings in Stuttgart after the Second World War.

The Evangelical Church in Germany commemorates Ludwig Hofacker with a memorial day in the Evangelical Name Calendar on November 18th.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Württemberg Church History online
  2. ↑ Edeltrud Geiger-Schmidt: Ludwig Hofacker Church. In: Stuttgart City Archive, Digital City Lexicon. Stuttgart City Archives, April 19, 2018, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Ludwig Hofacker. In: Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints.

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personal data
SURNAME Hofacker, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Wildbad
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1828
Place of death Rielingshausen