Philipp Plener

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Philipp Plener was a German Baptist . He lived in the 16th century and was the founder of the Philippians named after him in Moravia and Upper Austria . Plener was partly known as Philipp Weber , in line with his profession . The widespread description of blue sleeves refers to the dyeing trade.

Life

Plener's place of birth is unknown. However, it is believed that he was born in Zaisersweiher near Bruchsal in Baden . In 1526 or 1527 Plener first met representatives of the radical Reformation Anabaptist movement in Strasbourg and soon became one of its preachers himself . Here he concentrated his work mainly on the region in and around Bruchsal in Kraichgau and was soon able to gather a relatively large Anabaptist community. In 1530 the community, which goes back to Plener, is said to have comprised around 500 people. In 1527, Plener finally lived for two months in Augsburg , where he found accommodation in the house of the widow of Hans Leupold, who had previously been murdered . After the persecution of the Anabaptists increased in southern Germany, Plener finally emigrated with part of his community to the Moravian town of Rossitz , where they initially lived with a group of Silesian Anabaptists supervised by Gabriel Ascherham . A short time later, the group around Plener moved to nearby Auspitz and founded a Bruderhof based on the principle of the primitive community property community . Here Plener mainly collected Anabaptists from Baden, Swabia, Hesse, the Palatinate and the Rhineland. In Auspitz, the community around Plener soon met a group of Anabaptists who had moved from Austerlitz and who also established a Bruderhof. Wilhelm Reublin was among them . In 1531 these three Anabaptist groups living in communion formed a loose union with a total of around 4000 parishioners. Two years later, however, the three groups separated again and in the following years developed as independent Anabaptist denominations. The Philippians named after Plener comprised around 400 people in those years. In addition to Moravia, the Philippians were also able to found communities in Upper Austria in 1534 . After there was a shorter wave of persecution and corresponding expulsion mandates in Moravia in 1535/36, most of the Philippians moved back to their southwest German homeland. A small group of Filipino Anabaptists were arrested in Passau on their return journey in the late summer of 1535 and held for several years in the dungeon of Passau Castle, where they eventually wrote some of the songs of the group . Plener's own fate remains in the dark after emigrating from Moravia. It is believed that Plener was able to return to Baden or Württemberg, but died there a short time later.

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SURNAME Plener, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Baptist
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Zaisersweiher
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century