Joseph Joos

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Joseph Joos, member of the Reichstag, center

Joseph Joos , also Josef , (born November 13, 1878 in Winzenheim , Colmar district ; † March 11, 1965 in St. Gallen , Switzerland ) was a German journalist and politician ( center ).

Life and work

After attending primary school in Mulhouse and doing an apprenticeship as a model carpenter, Josef Joos joined the Ober-Elsässische Landeszeitung as an editor in 1901 . The staunch Catholic took a course at the Volksverein for Catholic Germany in Mönchengladbach in 1903 and became editor of the Westdeutsche Arbeiterzeitung , the high-circulation organ of the Catholic workers' associations (later KAB ). In 1905 Joos became editor-in-chief. During the First World War , he spoke out in favor of democratization. From 1919 the Alsatian was more politically active. As a member of the Reichstag, he was known for his pointed speeches. In the 18th session of the 5th electoral period, he dealt with his Protestant colleague Bruno Doehring :

“I don't like that at all. I will also tell you why. Because the colleague Doehring suffers from an incurable cause, namely from what we call the 'anti-Roman affect'. [Great amusement] For him, Mr Doehring, a Catholic is a bad German simply because he is a Catholic. [Contradiction and shouts: Unheard of! von der Deutschnationalen] Mr Doehring, on this point you are true to history, [agreement in the center; Shouting from the German Nationals: You have to keep the center and the Catholic apart!] But a loyalty to the darkest years of national development. "

The Catholic workers' associations , which campaigned against National Socialism at an early stage, were increasingly harassed during the Nazi dictatorship , and eventually banned. Joos found a job in Cologne until 1940 in the pastoral care of men, but was arrested in 1940 after being denounced because of his contacts with the resistance, after his German citizenship had been revoked as early as 1938 as a native of Alsace .

Joos was transferred from Cologne prison to the Weißenburg internment camp in Bavaria in August 1940, to the Gestapo prison in Nuremberg in July 1941 , and then to the Dachau concentration camp . In April 1945 he was transported with around 140 prominent inmates to Niederdorf (South Tyrol) and liberated there in May 1945 . Released to France as a "Frenchman" because of his place of birth, Joos returned to Germany in 1949, but did not regain German citizenship. Until 1960 he lived in Fulda , where he worked for the Catholic pastoral care for men and was an advisor to the KAB. In 1960 he moved to Switzerland due to illness.

Joos was an honorary member of the Catholic student associations Semnonia Berlin and Ravensberg Münster in the cartel association of Catholic German student associations .

In 1954 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested in Cologne Cathedral on December 8, 1954 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

Public offices

Joseph Joos came to the Weimar National Assembly in January 1919 as a representative of the Catholic workers' wing for the Center , and had been on the Provincial Board of the Rhenish Center Party since 1911. He was a member of the Reichstag until November 1933. He was one of the most famous center politicians of the Weimar period , which was also reflected in numerous offices.

In 1933 Joos opposed the Center's approval of the Enabling Act , but bowed to the majority of the parliamentary group and therefore approved in the Reichstag.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Minutes of the meeting of the German Reichstag on February 6, 1931
  2. ↑ Peter Koblank: The Liberation of Special Prisoners and Kinship Prisoners in South Tyrol , online edition Mythos Elser 2006
  3. ↑ Academic Monthly Gazette 2013, p. 141

literature

  • Joachim Giers:  Joos, Josef. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 595 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Bernd Haunfelder : Member of the Reichstag of the German Center Party 1871–1933. Biographical handbook and historical photographs (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 4). Droste, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-7700-5223-4 , p. 1325 f.
  • Oswald Wachtling: Joseph Joos. Journalist, labor leader, center politician. Political biography 1878-1933 . Publications of the Commission for Contemporary History, Series B: Research, Volume 16. Mainz 1974.

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personal data
SURNAME Joos, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Joos, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Wintzenheim
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1965
Place of death St. Gallen