Tobias Brandner

Tobias Brandner ( Chinese 百牧师 , Cantonese Bai Mushi , * 1965 in Auenstein ) is a Swiss Protestant Reformed pastor and pastor in Stanley Prison in Hong Kong , whose inmates named him "Father Tobias".

Life

Tobias Brandner grew up in Aargau on Auenstein, he attended high school in Aarau , he with the maturity graduated. He then studied Protestant theology at the University of Zurich and did a doctorate in systematic theology . At the same time he worked as a prison chaplain in the prison Pöschwies in Regensdorf . He was elected to the city parliament of Zurich for the Social Democratic Party .

Brandner has lived in Hong Kong as a prison chaplain and university teacher on behalf of Mission 21 since 1996 . First he learned Cantonese , then he began to work at Stanley Maximum Security Prison with 1,400 inmates. He visits prisoners in the workshops and in solitary confinement and campaigns for them. He is also a professor of Western church history and missiology at the Theological Faculty of Chung Chi College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong .

Tobias Brandner is married, has three children and lives with his family on the university campus in Hong Kong.

Publications

Books

Unity given - lost - striving: thought movements of faith and church constitution. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1996. ISBN 978-3-525-56543-8
Encounters with God in prison. A practical theology of prison chaplaincy. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2009. ISBN 978-3-374-03029-3 (and Lembeck. ISBN 978-3-874-76588-6 )

items

On the death of the Bishop of Shanghai. Mediator between Beijing and Rome. Article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Zurich, April 29, 2013
I see prison as a death experience in many ways. He has been looking after prisoners for 18 years. Everyone has their dark spots, says Tobias Brandner. Der Bund , Saturday interview from April 19, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Tobias BRANDNER. Divinity School of Chung Chi College, CUHK, accessed September 17, 2017 .
↑ Auensteiner theologian looks after Hong Kong's felons . In: az Aargauer Zeitung . June 23, 2012 ( aargauerzeitung.ch [accessed September 17, 2017]).
↑ In Hong Kong Prisons. A prison chaplain tells. In: ITE - The Magazine. ite-dasmagazin.ch, accessed on September 17, 2017 .
^ Doris Brodbeck: Tobias Brandner with a column from Hong Kong in Ref. Press. oeme.ch, January 11, 2010, accessed on September 17, 2017 .
↑ Katrin Hafner: The pastor with whom the heavy boys are very gentle. In: Tages-Anzeiger . February 2, 2010, archived from the original on April 17, 2014 ; accessed on September 17, 2017 .
↑ Tobias Brandner: On the death of the bishop of Shanghai: mediator between Beijing and Rome . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 29, 2013, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed September 17, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Brandner, Tobias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Father Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss theologian and prison chaplain
DATE OF BIRTH	1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Auenstein AG

[1] Tobias BRANDNER. Divinity School of Chung Chi College, CUHK, accessed September 17, 2017 .

[2] Auensteiner theologian looks after Hong Kong's felons . In: az Aargauer Zeitung . June 23, 2012 ( aargauerzeitung.ch [accessed September 17, 2017]).

[3] In Hong Kong Prisons. A prison chaplain tells. In: ITE - The Magazine. ite-dasmagazin.ch, accessed on September 17, 2017 .

[4] Doris Brodbeck: Tobias Brandner with a column from Hong Kong in Ref. Press. oeme.ch, January 11, 2010, accessed on September 17, 2017 .

[5] Katrin Hafner: The pastor with whom the heavy boys are very gentle. In: Tages-Anzeiger . February 2, 2010, archived from the original on April 17, 2014 ; accessed on September 17, 2017 .

[6] Tobias Brandner: On the death of the bishop of Shanghai: mediator between Beijing and Rome . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 29, 2013, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed September 17, 2017]).