Hans Schlaffer

Hans Floppy († February 4, 1528 in Schwaz, Tyrol ) was a representative of the Austrian Anabaptist movement.

Life

Limp was probably in 1511, a Catholic priest, but took over in the early Reformation Lutheran positions and began to preach in the sense of the Reformation. In 1526 he finally resigned as priest and turned to the radical Reformation Anabaptist movement. At that time he stayed at Schloss Weinberg in Upper Austria on, which was in the possession of the Protestant -minded Zelkinger. Probably also the founding of the Baptist church in the near Freistadt goes back to flaccid. In 1527 Schaffer eventually moved for a short time in the Moravian Mikulov, where he witnessed the intra - Anabaptist controversy between Sword and Staff officers learning about the legitimacy of state violence. In August 1527 he took part in the Augsburg Synod martyrs with Hans Hut and Jacob Wide man. Then he turned to Nuremberg, where he met in September 1527 and Ludwig Hans Denck Hatzer. About Regensburg, where he met Oswald Glait, he went to Brixlegg and finally to rats in Tyrol. Maybe Limp was involved also in the formation of Rattenberger Baptist church that later Leonhard Schiemer appointed as a preacher. After a short stay he went to the further path to Hall in Tirol, where he wanted to spend the winter. On the way to Hall he took in December 1527 in Schwaz at a meeting of the local Baptist church and eventually became part along the Baptist Linhard Frick arrested, detained for several weeks at the castle Freundsberg and finally beheaded in February 1528 along with Frick.

In prison he wrote several well-known to this day as the scriptures written by him under the title responsibility defense statement, in which he rejected any accusation of rebellion and made ​​it clear that his work was solely due to theological reasons. The script was sent to the municipal authorities of the city and also to the Provincial Government of Tyrol in Innsbruck. Furthermore, he wrote, among other things, the Short Report of the Christian life, letter to a weak brother, commitment and responsibility to the other responsibilities and a silly prayer.

Headings such as commitment and responsibility to give an impression of the ideas of the South German Anabaptist movement, as it had developed at this time. The other responsibility also contains many autobiographical details. A silly prayer Floppy wrote the night before his execution. In this he turned to God and spoke about his life and his thoughts shortly before his execution. Prayer is one of the most moving writings of the German Christian devotional literature. It is also found in the story book of the Hutterian Brethren and the art book, a collection of letters and writings of the Upper German Baptist. An early copy is also in the Mennonite Historical Library of Goshen College available.

Floppy composed with Ungnad desire I nit of you and God, my Eternal Father also two hymns. The former took place under the number 32 also input into the Anabaptist hymnal paragon and in the songs of the Hutterian Brethren. In addition, it was marketed as 1527 Brochure in circulation and each 1550 and 1551 reprinted in Nuremberg. The second song was written as Scripture A silly prayer in the last hours of his life.

Floppy is due to its theological as well as biographical proximity to Leonhard Schiemer often called them together. So were both flaccid and Schiemer Catholic priest before they had turned to the Anabaptist movement, both in the tradition of the South German Anabaptists led by Hans Hut and Hans Denck and both died as martyrs within a span of about three weeks, not far from each other in Inn Valley. Theologically took Floppy hat suffering mysticism, but moved its apocalyptic in favor of a collective Christocentricity in the background. In his writings Floppy speaks among other things, the humility and follow Christ.