Background
Krechting was born in Schöppingen, Münster, the son of the town clerk and church musician Engelbert Krechting.
Krechting was born in Schöppingen, Münster, the son of the town clerk and church musician Engelbert Krechting.
He became a priest, a tutor for the Earl in Bentheim and a pastor at Gildehaus in the county of Bentheim. But when he proclaimed Anabaptist teachings, he was removed from his position. With many that he had convinced, he moved to Westphalian Munster (the so-called "New Jerusalem"), where he was one of the Anabaptist preachers.
On 22 January 1536 he was tortured to death with January van Leiden and Bernhard Knipperdolling at the principal market in Munster.