Alois Kluibenschedl

Captain Alois Kluibenschedl

Captain Alois Kluibenschedl , also Kluibenschädl or Kleubenschedl (born July 13, 1772 in Stams , † February 21, 1864 ibid) was a Tyrolean freedom fighter .

Alois Kluibenschedl was born as the tenth child of the beer owner Johann Baptist Kluibenschedl and Aloisia Perkhofer in Thannrein, a hamlet in the municipality of Stams. At the age of twenty he entered the service of Baron von Ceschi as a lackey, who was then district chief in Schwaz. In 1796 and 1797 Kluibenschedl took part in the Tyrolean War of Liberation and moved to the Puster Valley with the Schwazer sniper company. There he was awarded a medal for bravery. After his return he became a servant of the provincial governor, Count von Bissingen. Following a pious move, he entered the Cistercian monastery in Stams on September 20, 1806 at the age of 34 as a lay brother , but had to leave the Cistercian monastery four days before the completion of the novitiate after the property was confiscated by the Bavarian government. After being expelled from Stams, he entered the service of the Prince Abbot of St. Gallen, with whom he traveled to Hungary, Bosnia, Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. In 1809 he took part in the fighting at Bergisel as a first lieutenant and later as a deputy captain .

Andreas Hofer personally recognized his prudence and fearlessness . During the rule of Bavaria, Kluibenschedl stayed abroad and even came to Turkey in 1812 as a servant to a Mr. P. von Winterthur. The enthusiastic disposition achieved local fame in 1813 when he headed a revolt against the Bavarians. His call to get up like " anno nine " and to free the state of Tyrol from foreign bondage was only followed by individual actions, which were not granted lasting success. After fleeing abroad again, Kluibenschedl returned to Tyrol in January 1815, which in the meantime had been reunited with Austria. Emperor Franz I rewarded him for his services in defense of Tyrol with an annual pension of 200 guilders, which was increased to 300 guilders in 1832. Kluibenschedl remained celibate and spent the rest of his life in Stams. At patriotic celebrations he liked to appear in a lieutenant's uniform, for example on the occasion of the burial of Andreas Hofer's remains in the court church. Alois Kluibenschedl was buried in Stams.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Kluibenschädel, Alois . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1864, p. 123 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Captain Alois Kluibenschedl and the December riots in 1813. Manuscript by P. Meinrad Attlmayr, revised by P. Meinrad Bader, Capitular of Stams Monastery, separate print, Innsbruck 1901, from: Neue Tirolerimmen.
• Kluibenschedl Alois. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 424.

Web links

• The writer Jakobine Walch Gfall wrote the patriotic play "Kluibenschedl" in 1963, which takes place during the wars of liberation and traces the work of Captain K. (PDF file; 42 kB)