Friedrich Thinnes
Friedrich Thinnes (born January 25, 1790 in Merscheid , today part of the municipality of Morbach , Hunsrück ; † October 15, 1860 in Würzburg ) was a Catholic priest , cathedral chapter in the Bavarian dioceses of Speyer , Eichstätt and Würzburg , also a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and im Bavarian State Parliament .
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Early life
Friedrich Thinnes was born the ninth of twelve children of a farming family. At that time, his hometown Merscheid still belonged politically to the Electorate of Trier , after the occupation by the French from 1798 to the French Département de la Sarre , from 1815 to Prussia .
Ecclesiastically, the area was under the diocese of Trier , for which Thinnes was ordained a priest on March 11, 1815 after attending the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Trier and studying philosophy and theology for four years. From 1815 to 1818 he worked as a pastor in Kusel , which at that time still belonged to the diocese of Trier, as did his next pastor in Blieskastel . In 1816 Kusel and Blieskastel were politically added to the Kingdom of Bavaria and when the Diocese of Speyer was re-established (legally in 1817, in fact only in 1821), both places came to this district. Friedrich Thinnes moved together with his parish Blieskastel from Trier to the new Speyer diocese, whose borders were congruent with the political borders of the Bavarian Rhine District . The priest officiated from 1818 to 1828 as pastor in Blieskastel, where he also became dean of the Zweibrücken country chapter and district school inspector.
Member of Parliament and Canon
From 1825 to 1828 he was a member of the Bavarian state parliament. On July 24, 1829, King Ludwig I appointed him cathedral capitular in Speyer.
On March 15, 1835, Friedrich Thinnes took up a position offered to him as cathedral chapter in Eichstätt . Here he moved in 1848/49 as a member of the constituency of Middle Franconia in the German Paulskirche parliament in Frankfurt. From 1849 to 1855 he was again a member of the state parliament in Munich , where u. a. Chairman of the Committee for the Treatment of the German Question (1849/50), the Committee for Taxes (1849/50) and the Committee for Finance and Public Debt (1853–55).
Pope Pius IX appointed the prelate on March 22, 1850 as cathedral provost in Würzburg , where he lived in the "Marmelstein" palace (today the episcopal ordinariate, Domerschulstrasse 2 ). On August 6, 1850, he received his doctorate in theology from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Sebastian Brunner reports in his book "Do you know the country ?: Merry trips through Italy" , from a meeting with Thinnes in Rome, in the German national foundation Santa Maria dell'Anima , 1856. Thinnes would have met there with Thinnes at that time too Bishop Nikolaus von Weis with his secretary Wilhelm Molitor , the Mainz clergy Adam Franz Lennig , Christoph Moufang and Kaspar Riffel , as well as Professor Franz Xaver Reithmayr from Munich stopped. According to the Munich magazine Bayerische Landbötin (No. 214 of September 7th and No. 284 of November 27, 1856), Thinnes was with Bishop Weis, but was unable to return with him on time due to illness.
In 1860 Friedrich Thinnes stayed for a long time to relax in his home town of Merscheid, only two weeks later he died in Würzburg. The Neue Augsburger Zeitung (No. 287 of October 18, 1860) gives a sudden "heartbeat" on October 15, 1860 at 5:00 p.m. as the cause of death. The Straubinger Tagblatt (No. 18 of October 20, 1860), however, reports the death as a result of a blow .
Coming from a humble background, Thinnes often took a stand on social and economic issues in his parliamentary work. An example of this is his decided rejection of a common clothing or uniform for servants proposed in 1825 , which he classified as a modern form of slave fire marking. He stood up for the interests of the Rhine district and the takeover / retention of the progressive administrative structures introduced there under the French government, such as B. the establishment of " district administrators ", which correspond to today's district days. In religious terms, he consistently represented the interests of the Catholic Church and the clergy, as whose representative he was sent to the Chamber of Deputies.
As in the Bavarian state parliament, as a member of the "Casino" faction in the Paulskirche, he represented a liberal, denominational, moderate position. In a longer contribution he rejected the division of the Duchy of Poznan, inhabited by Germans and Poles, in the first freely elected German parliament and supported an independent Poland. He also spoke about freedom of religion and conscience and the separation of church and state. In the votes in Frankfurt and as chairman of the committee on the German question in Munich, he campaigned for the adoption and the legally binding application of the fundamental rights of the German people, which had been adopted for the first time, supported a constitutional monarchy with a strong parliament and, like most of the others, represented Bavarian MPs adopted the Greater German solution, including Austria, in order to prevent the dominant influence of Protestant Prussia.
literature
- Diocese of Würzburg: Schematism of the Diocese of Würzburg , 1856, page II; Scan from the source
- Franz Xaver Remling : Modern history of the bishops of Speyer , Verlag Ferdinand Kleeberger, Speyer 1867
- Alfons Hoffmann: The Catholic clergy of the Palatinate in the Bavarian State Assembly (1819-1848) , in Journal for Bavarian State History , Volume 32, Issue 2, 1969, pages 767-812 of the year
- Guido Nonn: The canons since the reestablishment of the Speyer diocese, in 1817 , Speyer diocesan archive, 1981, page 31
- Adolf Nellinger: Dr. Friedrich Thinnes from Merscheid, Dompropst zu Würzburg , in: Yearbook of the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich , 1985, pages 337-339; How to find the article
- Franz Wigard: Stenographic report on the negotiations of the German constituent national assembly in Frankfurt am Main, vol. 2 and vol. 3
- Josef Leeb: Suffrage and elections to the Second Chamber of the Bavarian Assembly of Estates in Vormärz (1818-1845), Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1997
- Negotiations of the Second Chamber of the Estates Assembly of the Kingdom of Bavaria, various volumes 1825-1828, JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung
- Negotiations of the Chamber of Deputies of the Bavarian State Parliament. Stenographic reports, various volumes 1849-1855, Augsburg
- Lieselotte Resch and Ladislaus Buzas: Directory of doctors and dissertations at the University of Ingolstadt - Landshut - Munich, University Library, 1975
Web links
- From the farmer's son to the cathedral provost , report of the newspaper Trierischer Volksfreund on the occasion of Friedrich Thinnes' 220th birthday, 2010
- Friedrich Thinnes in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
- Website of the University of Würzburg, with an enlargeable image of the death picture
Individual evidence
- ^ Carl Heffner: Würzburg and his surroundings , 1871, page 329; Scan from the source
- ↑ Sebastian Brunner: Do you know the country ?: Cheerful journeys through Italy , Vienna 1857, pages 247 and 248; Scan from the source
- ↑ Scans from the source, on the stay in Rome with Bishop Nikolaus von Weis
- ↑ Death report from the newspaper
- ↑ Death report from the Straubinger Tagblatt
- ↑ Alfons Hoffmann: The Catholic clergymen of the Palatinate in the Bavarian State Assembly (1819-1848) , in Journal for Bavarian State History , Volume 32, Issue 2, 1969, page 777 of the year
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thinnes, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Catholic priest, cathedral chapter, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and the Bavarian State Parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1790 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merscheid (Morbach) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1860 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |