Franz Klingelschmitt

Franz Xaver Klingelschmitt

Franz Xaver Klingelschmitt (born September 24, 1835 in Mainz , † December 14, 1892 ) was a German humorist.

Life

Franz Xaver Klingelschmitt was the son of the master whiter Kilian Klingelschmitt, who had been running a whitewashing shop on Kästrich since 1857 , which he had taken over from his father-in-law Johann Lieb. The house in which the Klingelschmitt family's apartment was located was near the Martin Bastion next to the Gautor in Mainz. In the year the house and business were taken over, the Martinsturm, used as a powder tower, exploded on the afternoon of November 18th . The Klingelschmitt house was completely destroyed by this accident. Kilian Klingelschmitt, his wife and three of the five children were killed in the process; only Franz Xaver Klingelschmitt and his eight-year-old brother Adam survived, as they were not in the house at the time of the explosion - Franz Xaver Klingelschmitt was then a military officer and was stationed in Darmstadt . After the accident, he was exempted from the rest of his military service so that he could take the Tüncher master's examination and reopen his father's business. Thanks to financial compensation, he was able to rebuild the destroyed house within two years.

Klingelschmitt appeared as a member of the Mainz Carneval Association , the court jesters and the humoristic zodiac with songs, poems and lectures during the Mainz Carnival. At times he was president of the court jesters and the humorous zodiac.

Under the pseudonym "painter oil green" or "oil green" he published humorous articles in the Moguntia , the supplement to the New Mainzer Gazette . He was also the editor of the carnival newspaper Philistine Whip from 1880 to 1881 .

Klingelschmitt died at the age of 57 from a nervous problem.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klingelschmitt's biography