Editing Hanau sect

{{Short description|Pseudo-religious group in Hanau, Germany}}
{{Orphan|date=May 2020}}

The '''Hanau sect''' is a [[Pseudoreligion|pseudo-religious group]] led by Sylvia Dorn in [[Hanau]], Hesse, [[Germany]].

Sylvia Dorn and her husband Walter Dorn, a priest, created the cult group in the 1980s. The group has around 15 members, dominantly led by Sylvia Dorn. She claims to get messages directly from God (as a [[Mediumship|medium]]), which must be executed by the members.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fr.de/rhein-main/main-kinzig-kreis/hanau-mordprozess-gegen-sektenfuehrerin-sylvia-zr-12302525.html|title=Mordprozess gegen Sektenchefin Sylvia D.|date=May 20, 2019|website=Frankfurter Rundschau}}</ref> The creation of the group dates back at the early 1980s, when three pastors of the [[United Methodist Church]] were excluded from their denomination because they resorted to the method of [[dream interpretation]]. One of them was Walter Dorn, a second is still active in the sect today.

Walter Dorn established a television and media production company called Aeon-Verlag.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fr.de/rhein-main/main-kinzig-kreis/ikea-org27218/mehr-werbefilmer-11337245.html|title=Mehr als nur ein Werbefilmer|date=January 17, 2012|website=Frankfurter Rundschau}}</ref> The company is presumably considered as a "work of God". At some point it should serve to spread the message of Sylvia D. and of God, called, the "old one".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fr.de/rhein-main/main-kinzig-kreis/gottes-namen-11256414.html|title=In Gottes Namen|date=September 5, 2014|website=Frankfurter Rundschau}}</ref> The employees are part of the group.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gnz.de/region/altkreis-hanau/kampf-eines-aussteigers-1288405-ML83884|title=Kampf eines Aussteigers|website=Gelnehauser Neue Zeitung}}</ref> The city of Hanau canceled all cooperation with the company until the trial has ended.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fr.de/rhein-main/main-kinzig-kreis/spd-org26325/psychoterror-ausbeutung-gottes-auftrag-11664359.html|title=Psychoterror und Ausbeutung in Gottes Auftrag?|date=March 16, 2015|website=Frankfurter Rundschau}}</ref>

In September 2017 Sylvia Dorn was impeached for killing Jan H., the four-year-old son of a cult member at 17 August 1988. Joint investigation carried out by the [[Frankfurter Rundschau]] and the [[Hessenschau]] had led to the reopening of the case in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/hanau-sekte-prozess-1.4650736|title=Mutmaßliche Sektenanführerin wegen Mordes vor Gericht|date=22 October 2019 }}</ref> Dorn packed Jan in a big bag and didn't react to his screams and panic reactions. D. called the young boy a "pig" and a "reincarnation of Hitler".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fr.de/rhein-main/blaulicht-sti879542/warten-aufklaerung-10962154.html|title=Das Warten auf die Aufklärung|date=August 15, 2018|website=Frankfurter Rundschau}}</ref> She was convicted of murder and sentenced to life-long imprisonment in September 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/hanau-mordprozess-sekte-landgericht-1.5043136 | date=September 2020| title=Hanau: Lebenslange Haftstrafe für mutmaßliche Sekten-Führerin}}</ref>

==Publications==
Sylvia Dorn, Walter Dorn: ''Halt fest, daß Gott mit Allem und Jedem zu tun hat.'' 1982 {{ISBN|978-1262404294}}

==References==
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[[Category:Religious organizations established in 1980]]
[[Category:Hanau]]
[[Category:New religious movements established in the 1980s]]