Franz Hoffmeister
Franz Hoffmeister (born March 22, 1898 in Ramsbeck , † March 27, 1943 in Schmallenberg- Holthausen ) was a Roman Catholic priest and, together with Theodor Pröpper, the founder of the Sauerland Heimatbund and the Balver Höhle Festival .
Career
Franz Hoffmeister was the son of the carpenter Franz Hoffmeister and Franziska Hoffmeister nee. Bump. He attended elementary school in Ramsbeck and was accepted into a Paderborn grammar school at the age of 15. In 1917, the high school student was called up as a substitute recruit for arms service with the substitute battalion of a foot artillery regiment in Jüterbog, for which he took part in the Battle of Flanders. In 1918 he continued to participate in the campaign in the west, during which he suffered various injuries that led to his discharge from army service in the same year.
In 1919 Franz Hoffmeister resumed the school attendance that had been interrupted by the beginning of the war and in February of the same year founded the Association of Studying Sauerlanders with some friends , of which he became provisional first chairman. In March, the first issue of the magazine Trutznachtigall, which he founded, appeared under his direction . In the same month he received the maturity for university studies and was matriculated at the Episcopal-Philosophical-Theological Academy Paderborn. He became a member of the Catholic student union Hochland . At the age of 23, Franz Hoffmeister was in danger of going blind .
In connection with the 4th General Assembly of the Association of Studying Sauerlanders , it was decided in Meschede to found the Sauerlander Heimatbund; from September 2 to 4, 1922, the first major conference took place in Balve .
In 1923 Hoffmeister resigned the management of the Trutznachtingall . In autumn 1923 he entered the seminary and was ordained a deacon on January 8, 1924 and a priest on August 10, 1924 by the auxiliary bishop Heinrich Haehling von Lanzenauer . Hoffmeister took over the parish vicarage in Antfeld in 1924 and in the same year became chairman of the Sauerland Heimatbund, whose office was initially set up in Bestwig, but later moved to Antfeld.
Hoffmeister took over the resigned editor of the Trutznachtingall in 1929. The magazine was now called Heimwacht and was the predecessor of today's monthly magazine Sauerland . This was followed by the founding of the Sauerland Artists' Circle, which was affiliated with the Sauerland Heimatbund.
The eighth Sauerland home conference took place in Balve from August 2nd to 4th, 1930. It stood under the motto “Religion and Homeland” and was associated with the 500 and 1000 year anniversary of the city of Balve. In the same year Franz Hoffmeister was appointed District President of the Catholic Young Men’s Association for the Bigge Dean's Office . The ninth Sauerland home conference took place in Eslohe in August , the last under Hoffmeister's leadership. The Sauerland poet Josef Pape was remembered on it.
In 1932 Hoffmeister was transferred to the vicariate in Bochum- Wiemelhausen . From there he continued to work on Heimwacht , the last edition of which appeared as No. 8 of the 1932 volume in February 1933. After the National Socialists came to power , Hoffmeister resigned his position as chairman of the Sauerland Heimatbund and was appointed district president of the Catholic Young Men’s Association in Bochum in June 1933.
On June 26, 1937, the old Sauerland Heimatbund was deleted by the Bigge district court. At the age of 40, Hoffmeister suffered a stroke while temporarily staying in Hamm. On October 9, 1940, he was given the parish vicarage in Holthausen near Fredeburg, Oberkirchen parish. Subsequently, his health deteriorated. Franz Hoffmeister died on March 27, 1943 in Holthausen. He was buried in the cemetery of his birthplace.
Honors
- The Franz-Hoffmeister school center was named after him in Bestwig, and Franz-Hoffmeister-Strasse was named after him in Ramsbeck and Olsberg.
- In 1956 the Hoffmeister-Pröpper-Brunnen was erected in Balve and in 1996 the Franz Hoffmeister monument in Antfeld.
Works
literature
- Theodor Pröpper : Franz Hoffmeister, the guardian of Sauerland folklore - life and work , A book of the homeland, Verlag Bonifatius Druckerei, Paderborn 1949
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bruns: Schmallenberg heads . Published by the Schmallenberg-Holthausen Slate Mining Museum. Slate Mining Museum Schmallenberg-Holthausen 1985, p. 48, ( Publications of the Slate Mining Museum on State History 6 (recte 7), ZDB -ID 2293376-1 )
- ↑ Sauerlaender-heimatbund.de: Sauerlandruf 1957 (PDF; 1.8 MB) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 24, 2013
- ↑ Antfeld.com: History Retrieved on August 24, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmeister, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman Catholic priest |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ramsbeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1943 |
| Place of death | Schmallenberg- Holthausen |