A German Islamist preacher was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly helping to recruit fighters and providing material support for a militant group in Syria, the Federal Prosecutor's Office said.
Kaspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig, (born 1489, Ossig, Lower Silesia [Germany] died Dec. 10, 1561, Ulm [Germany]), German theologian, writer, and preacher who led the Protestant Reformation in Silesia.
1489 Ossig, Germany December 10 , 1561Ulm, Germany Kaspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig, (born 1489, Ossig, Lower Silesia [Germany] died Dec. 10, 1561, Ulm [Germany]), German theologian, writer, and preacher who led the Protestant Reformation in Silesia.
December 3, 1750 Ulm, Germany June 21 , 1814Ulm, Germany Johann Martin Miller, (born Dec. 3, 1750, Imperial City of Ulm [Germany] died June 21 , 1814 Ulm, Württemberg) German poet, novelist, and preacher known for moralizing, sentimental novels and folk song-like poems.
C. 1495 Schwäbisch Hall, Germany 1543 or 1544 Strasbourg, France Melchior Hofmann, Hofmann also spelled Hoffmann (born c. 1495, Schwäbisch-Hall, Swabia [Germany] died 1543/44, Strassburg [now Strasbourg, France]), German mystic and lay preacher noted for contributing a zealous eschatology to the religious doctrine of the Anabaptists, a Reformation movement that advocated adult baptism.
My cousins called me "Donnie" and the preacher quoted "Rilke the German poet".
Amri reportedly had links to a Salafist circle around Ahmad Abdelazziz, also known as Abu Walaa, an Iraqi-born preacher based in the German town of Hildesheim who was arrested in November.
While they account for a tiny fraction of the estimated 4.3 million Muslims living in Germany, he noted, nearly all Islamic extremists known to German security officials, including several charismatic preachers, have links to the movement.
Months before that, according to the phone records of some of the Salafist preachers being monitored by German authorities, Amri is believed to have offered himself as a suicide bomber.
