Jakob Hauer

April 4, 1881 (age 80)

Ditzingen, Stuttgart Government Region, Germany

Initially trained in the family trade as a plasterer, he entered the missionary school at Basel in 1900 and served as a missionary in British India from 1907 to 1911. Initially little more than a more organized version of the Wandervogel, the Bund, which was for a time led by Rudolf Otto, became attracted to the ideals of the Völkisch movement, especially as Hauer began to move more towards developing his own religion. Hauer began to look into his own forms of religion in 1927 when he set up the Religiöser Menschheitsbund, which aimed for a greater unity amongst Germany"s faiths towards common goals. He described it as "a work of imperishable significance", arguing that it called on people to "master the riddle of life". By July 1934 the religion had been ratified as Hauer celebrated his first wedding without other clergy. lieutenant had initially been hoped that it might be adopted as the state religion of the Third Reich but this did not happen and as it began to decline Hauer left in 1936. In later years Hauer would seek to not only distance himself from the Nazis but also to portray himself as an anthroposophist. In 1935, however, he wrote that: Therefore, schools which are built out of the anthroposophical world view and led by anthroposophists mean danger to true German education." Hauer was removed from his university position after World World War II and was interned from 1945 to 1949. He continued to agitate for his own religion, forming the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für freie Religionsforschung und Philosophie in 1947 and the Freie Akademie in 1955.

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University of Oxford. University of Tübingen.

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Initially trained in the family trade as a plasterer, he entered the missionary school at Basel in 1900 and served as a missionary in British India from 1907 to 1911. Initially little more than a more organized version of the Wandervogel, the Bund, which was for a time led by Rudolf Otto, became attracted to the ideals of the Völkisch movement, especially as Hauer began to move more towards developing his own religion. Hauer began to look into his own forms of religion in 1927 when he set up the Religiöser Menschheitsbund, which aimed for a greater unity amongst Germany"s faiths towards common goals.

He described it as "a work of imperishable significance", arguing that it called on people to "master the riddle of life".

By July 1934 the religion had been ratified as Hauer celebrated his first wedding without other clergy. lieutenant had initially been hoped that it might be adopted as the state religion of the Third Reich but this did not happen and as it began to decline Hauer left in 1936.

In later years Hauer would seek to not only distance himself from the Nazis but also to portray himself as an anthroposophist. In 1935, however, he wrote that:

Therefore, schools which are built out of the anthroposophical world view and led by anthroposophists mean danger to true German education."

Hauer was removed from his university position after World World War II and was interned from 1945 to 1949.

He continued to agitate for his own religion, forming the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für freie Religionsforschung und Philosophie in 1947 and the Freie Akademie in 1955.

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He was the founder of the German Faith Movement.

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Under his tutelage religious studies at Tübingen became increasingly close to Nazism and by 1940 he was heading up an "Aryan Seminar". The anthroposophical world view is in the most important points directly opposed to National Socialism.

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