Joachim Haspinger

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Joachim Haspinger, lithograph by Carl Goebel
Haspinger in battle.

Joachim Haspinger OFM cap (born October 28, 1776 in St. Martin in Gsies in South Tyrol ; † January 12, 1858 in Salzburg ) was a Capuchin priest and Tyrolean freedom fighter .

Life

Joachim Haspinger studied in Bolzano and Innsbruck and fought against the French in the Austrian army in 1796, 1797 and 1799–1801. In 1802 he joined the Capuchin Order . In 1805 he was ordained a priest and was appointed preacher in the monastery of Silandro in Vinschgau .

Here he was mainly active politically. For religious reasons, Haspinger called for resistance to the smallpox vaccination ordered by the Bavarian administration . He joined the secret society of Tyrolean Patriots and took part in the Tyrolean popular uprising in 1809 . Haspinger took part in the two battles of May 29 and August 13, where the Tyrolean riflemen Hofers defeated the French and Bavarian troops on the Bergisel . He got the nickname "Father Rotbart" from his fellow campaigners.

In the same year Haspinger also prepared the uprising in the province of Salzburg , which was suppressed by French troops by November 3, 1809. After another uprising by the Tyroleans under Andreas Hofer , he had to leave Tyrol. First he hid for nine months in the Vinschgau on the Tschenglsburg, then he fled to Vienna on October 31, 1810 , where he was pastor in the Maria Loretto Church in Jedlesee from 1810 to 1812 .

In 1812 he was given the secret mission to prepare a popular uprising. From 1815 he was pastor in Traunfeld in the Weinviertel and worked as a pastor at Sankt Lampert am Heiligen Berg until his retirement in 1836. He then lived in Hietzing near Vienna.

In 1848 he again accompanied a company of Tyrolean military police to Italy as a field preacher and in 1854 settled in the imperial Mirabell Palace in Salzburg , where he died in 1858. His body was brought to the court church in Innsbruck and buried there next to Andreas Hofer.

Recognitions

  • In 1895, Haspingerstraße was named in the then still independent community of Wilten .
  • In 1898, Haspingerplatz in Vienna- Floridsdorf (21st district) was named after him.
  • A monument to Joachim Haspinger created by Josef Piffrader was unveiled in Chiusa in 1908 .
  • To mark the 75th anniversary of his death in 1933, a memorial plaque was placed on the parish church of Maria Loretto in Jedlesee in Vienna
  • Memorial plaque in Mirabell Palace where he died

Filmography

Memorial plaque to the Maria Loretto Church in Jedlesee

In the film Andreas Hofer - The Freedom of the Eagle by Xaver Schwarzenberger based on the book by Felix Mitterer , the focus is on Andreas Hofer and Joachim Haspinger, played by Franz Xaver Kroetz . He is portrayed as a bloodthirsty, religious fundamentalist . He is charged with a particularly vicious and devious murder - historically but not proven - of a Tyrolean boy who was conscripted into the Bavarian army. His immersion in contrast to Hofer's end is portrayed as opportunism .

literature

Web links

Commons : Joachim Haspinger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Tirol Landesgeschichte" by Harb, Hölzl and Stöger, Steiger Verlag, page 198, ISBN 3-85423-006-0
  2. ↑ Josefine Justic: Innsbruckerstraße name. Where do they come from and what they mean . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3213-9 , p. 86 .
  3. ↑ Kulturgüterverein Klausen: Monuments in the Kapuiznergarten
personal data
SURNAME Haspinger, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pastor and Tyrolean patriot
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Martin, Casies , South Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1858
Place of death Salzburg , Austria