Franz Xaver Nies

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Franz Xaver Nies (born June 11, 1859 in Rehringhausen , † November 1, 1897 in Zhangjiazhuang ) was a Steyler missionary .

He entered the Order on May 7, 1879 and was ordained a priest on June 7, 1884. In 1885 he traveled to China on a mission .

Nies was murdered with his brother Richard Henle on November 1, 1897 in Zhangjiazhuang (Tshanyachuang) in South Shandong ( South Shantung) . A third missionary, Georg M. Stenz , survived the attack. The act was ascribed to the secret society of the " boxers ". Kaiser Wilhelm II took this event, known as the Juye incident , as a "long-awaited cause and 'incident'" as an opportunity to have the Bay of Tsingtau occupied by German marines and to establish the German lease colony Kiautschou .

In his home village of Rehringhausen, a street was named after Nies.

literature

  • Heinrich Walle: Germany fleet presence in East Asia 1897-1914. Striving for a “place in the sun” against the background of economic, power-political and church interests , in: Yearbook for European Overseas History , Vol. 9, 2009, pp. 127–158 ( GoogleBooks ).
  • Heinrich Walle: Martyr for the German naval base in Tsingtau? - The murder of Fathers Richard Henle SVD and Franz Xaver Nies SVD on November 1st, 1897 , in: In the memory of the church new awakening. Studies on the history of Christianity in Central and Eastern Europe , Böhlau, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-412-04100-9 , pp. 559-587 ( GoogleBooks ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Forum Weltkirche , Herder Verlag, 1897, p. 110.
  2. ^ On a mission in China , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , July 11, 2008.
  3. Gerd Fesser : "Hundreds of German merchants will cheer" , Die Zeit , November 14, 1997