Otto Stockmayer

Otto Stockmayer (born October 21, 1838 in Aalen , † April 12, 1917 in Hauptwil ) was a German pastor and evangelist.

Life

Stockmayer was born the son of a Swabian senior magistrate who raised him very strictly and demanded absolute obedience from him. He lost his beloved mother at an early age. At a young age he began studying theology in the Schönthal seminar or in Tübingen . Here he met Professor Johann Tobias Beck . He lost his view of faith through biblical criticism and Masonic approaches. He also suffered greatly from homesickness and melancholy. After completing his studies, he went to Switzerland . There Dorothea Trudel blessed him by laying on hands to serve God. However , he only experienced his actual conversion two years later under the influence of a pious lady from western Switzerland , whose children he had looked after as a private tutor. He was then baptized as an adult and entered the Vaud Free Church , which was founded under the leadership of Alexandre Vinets .

He worked as an evangelist in the Free Congregation in Geneva and as a pastor in L'Auberson . His consistent character moved him to seek real sanctification. He was drawn to the revivals of DL Moody and he was caught up in the dawn of the sanctification movement and the conferences in Oxford in 1874 and in Brighton in 1875 . In 1871 he married Henriette Marie Glardon.

Stockmayer was one of the leading figures in the German sanctification movement. During his time in Bern, Franz Eugen Schlachter was one of his most important employees. His main concern was the preparation of the bridal congregation. He consistently confessed, if necessary also publicly, recognized sin. He opened a pastoral care home in Hauptwil Castle in Switzerland. He himself experienced difficult hours when his son committed suicide in a mental derangement. He consistently represented the doctrine of the healing of the sick, but also accepted illness as a discipline. At times he represented a selection of the bride community, but gave up this teaching again in 1909.

Stockmayer was one of the leaders of the community movement that separated itself from the Pentecostal movement in 1909 through the Berlin Declaration . He died in 1917 at the age of 79.

Works

Title page of Stockmayer's "Evangelium Johannes", posthumously 1927

• Overcoming Satan , 1890
• Grace and Sin , 1897
• The gift of the Holy Spirit , 1898
• Spiritual leadership , 1900
• Quiet days in Teichwolframsdorf , 1903
• The body of Christ and its divine builder , 1908
• Abraham the Father of the Believers , 1921
• Grace has appeared . Devotions, edited by Alfred Roth, 1923
• The Gospel of John. From house devotions. Gotha 1927. Digitized
• Sickness and gospel
• From faith in faith
• Bible studies on Romans

literature

• Alfred Roth: Otto Stockmayer, a witness and follower of Jesus Christ , 1938²
• Hans von Sauberzweig: He the master, we the brothers: History of the Gnadau community movement 1888-1958 , 1959
• Paulus Scharpff: History of Evangelism: Three Hundred Years of Evangelism in Germany, Great Britain and the USA , 1964
• Dieter Lange: A movement is breaking new ground: The German communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and their position on the church, theology and the Pentecostal movement , 1979
• Burkard Krug :  Stockmayer, Otto. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 1503.
• J. Stockmayer: Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit , 2002.
• Werner Raupp: Art. Stockmayer, Otto, in: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS), Vol. 12 (2013), p. 26 (also online).
• Johannes Stockmayer Longing for Awakening Gloryworld Media 2017

Web links

1. ^ Werner Raupp: Otto Stockmayer . Historical lexicon of Switzerland. Accessed January 21, 2020.

• Literature by and about Otto Stockmayer in the catalog of the German National Library