Otto Steiner (pastor)

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Otto Steiner (born January 13, 1917 in Neustadt / Coburg ; † December 6, 1995 in Munich ) was an Evangelical Lutheran pastor and pastor who lived in the Munich district of Hasenbergl - a social hotspot that was used as a large housing estate to resolve the housing shortage at the end of the 1950s was founded - drove the development of social institutions and welfare organizations.

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In Neustadt bei Coburg, his father ran a porcelain factory specializing in dolls' heads and toys. Steiner was confirmed on Palm Sunday 1931. On this day the strong-willed father said to his second-born son, “You will be a pastor!”. In his memoirs, Steiner wrote about his youth under the swastika:

"It would be dishonest if I did not admit today that before and after my high school diploma, the swastika was more attractive to my peers and me than the cross of Jesus Christ .... Half a year with the Reich Labor Service in Sprottenbruch in Lower Silesia and Then for two years as a volunteer to fulfill the conscription at the news department 17 in Schwabach I experienced the new national community, which connects the workers of the Faust and the workers of the forehead. The farm worker from Silesia shovels the weaker high school graduate's cart full so that he can come along and not hang out. Everywhere the high song of comradeship is not only sung, but also proven. I cannot remember that we were ever drilled on an ideological level ”.

Steiner studied theology , the winter semester 1938/39 in Bethel , then in Göttingen and after 1945 at the first pastoral college in Neuendettelsau and at the theological faculty of the University of Erlangen . His academic teachers included a. Werner Elert , Leonhard Goppel , Walter Künneth , Georg Merz and Martin Wittenberg . From 1939 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a platoon leader, then as a company commander of the 17 communications department in the Nuremberg 17th Infantry Division. His department had an excellent soccer team who called themselves "Burgstern Noris" and whose peace center was Schwabach . Steiner was responsible as team captain. The well-known footballer Albert Sing joined the 17th Infantry Division in early January. He remembered countless fanatical speeches "which Steiner made with slogans for leaders, people and fatherland" (Herzog 2008, p. 79).

From 1949 to 1953 Steiner completed a four and a half year vicariate in Peißenberg . He then became the second clergyman of the Inner Mission in Munich and organized the IX. German Evangelical Church Congress , which took place from August 12 to 16, 1959 in Munich. In the same year Steiner took over the newly established second parish in Milbertshofen at the Reconciliation Church Am Hart in Munich, which also included the infamous Frauenholz residential / barracks camp . From 1963 he was pastor of the Evangelium Church (Munich) in the Hasenbergl , whose congregation remained the focus of his work until his death. The apartments in Hasenbergl were literally pounded out of the ground at the end of the 1950s. They mainly offered accommodation for the socially disadvantaged, refugees and displaced persons. Steiner quickly recognized the impending social hardship and began setting up diaconal institutions at an early stage. In 1964 he founded the social counseling service of the Evangeliumsgemeinde München Hasenbergl e. V., which today is called Diakonie Hasenbergl e. V. operates and unites around 50 diaconal institutions with 500 employees. Like Georg Rückert, he was also one of the initiators of the Heilpädagogisches Centrum (HPC), a school with a day-care center for handicapped children, which also included the Schleissheimer Werkstätten (handicapped workshop) and the Theodor-Heckel educational center. He also founded the Protestant settlement support association “Northern Lights”, as well as the community newspaper Das Nordlicht , the first issue of which appeared in July 1963. Leonhard Henninger , church councilor and first cleric of the Inner Mission (1945–1976) wrote about Steiner's beneficial work :

“His gifted format prompted him to set up a 'social community' on Hasenbergl that is probably exemplary throughout Germany. In particular, it has become a matter of course for this community to support a whole range of services for the disabled. Wichern once dreamed of such communities . A sick member of the Hansenbergl congregation recently said of Vice Dean Steiner: 'If he doesn't go to heaven, no bishop will come in either ' ”.

On 15 July 1969 Otto Steiner was appointed Associate Dean for Prodekanat München-Nord, the ten parishes includes appointed. His professional career ended with his retirement in 1983, but he continued to be privately involved in the charities he founded.

Steiner and his wife Elisabeth, who married in July 1942, had a total of eight children (five daughters, three sons), born between 1943 and 1963. His youngest child is the television producer and sports official Otto Steiner .

The state capital Munich honored the merits of Steiner, who died in 1995, in 2001 with the naming of the Pfarrer-Steiner-Platz in Hasenbergl . Furthermore, a school with a special focus on intellectual disabilities was named after him.

Works

  • The career of Burgstein-Noris , in: Kicker, No. 21, May 27, 1941, p, 24
  • together with Walter Rupprecht Ed .: Hermann Dietzfelbinger . Your word moves the heart of the heart. Bible studies and lectures , Munich 1988
  • Otto Steiner: Foray of a pastor and contemporary on the Hasenbergl . JP Peter, Rothenburg ob der Tauber 1987, ISBN 3-87625-005-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steiner 1987, p. 1
  2. ↑ Steiner 1987, p. 3 ff.
  3. ↑ Steiner 1941, p. 24
  4. ↑ cf. http://www.peissenberg-evangelisch.de/Pfarrer.htm with a picture of the young vicar
  5. ↑ http://www.wochenanzeiger.de/article/190393.html
  6. ↑ cit. n. Bauer n.d., p. 143
  7. ↑ https://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Kommunalreferat/geodatenservice/strassennamen/2001/Pfarrer-Steiner-Platz.html

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personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, Munich social pastor in Hasenbergl
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt near Coburg
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1995
Place of death Munich