Georg Canaris
Georg Josef Ignaz Canaris (born March 21, 1740 in Ellwangen ; † August 21, 1819 in Wehlen (today part of Bernkastel-Kues )) was pastor and archiepiscopal school visitator of the diocese of Trier .
Live and act
Georg Canaris was born in Ellwangen on March 21, 1740 as the son of Hofrat Johann Albert Canaris and his wife Apollonia von Huber . In August 1757 he was enrolled to study theology at the University of Würzburg . He was ordained priest in 1763 in Trier . He was then a canon canon in Koblenz St. Kastor and from 1769 at the same time pastor of Wallersheim . During the Heiligrock exhibition in 1765 Canaris in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein was entrusted with the task of touching objects given by pilgrims to the Holy Rock.
Canaris had already made a name for himself as a gifted preacher in the city's parishes. But he also showed keen interest in the attempts to reform the collegiate school of St. Kastor initiated by Archbishop and Elector Clemens Wenzeslaus . This was u. a. the appointment of school visitators is planned, who should report on the situation of the elementary school in the electorate and submit appropriate suggestions for improvement.
With a letter of May 13th, 1775, the “honorable and dear Georg Josef Canaris, canon at our Collegiatskirche in Coblenz” received a letter from the Elector in which he “remembered your well-known virtues this church (in Konz) on the basis of this letter we invest you with it and entrust you with pastoral care [...]. At the same time we instruct the responsible country dean or another priest from the country chapter to introduce you [...] to the real property of the church. "
With the assumption of the pastor's office in Konz St. Nikolaus, Georg Josef Canaris became clergyman and electoral school visitator for the Obererzstift and from 1777 to 1782 general visitator. He was assigned chaplains Driesch (1776, Wiltingen) and Arweiler (Könen) from 1786 to 1795 to support him in pastoral care and parish administration.
From the period after 1779 there are numerous reports on the business trips of the electoral school visitator, the discussions with the local clergy, church and community magistrates, teachers and the examination of the knowledge of the school children. They show the poor condition of elementary schools, especially in the countryside.
From the Konzer Schule (1780) Canaris reported so u. a. that the schoolmaster Michel Scharff - at the same time sexton - was able to “teach the children to spell and read. On the other hand, he by no means has the ability to teach his apprentices how to spell and write, because he himself has a bad handwriting and knows no rules of the art of spelling. "
About Merzlich (today Konz-Karthaus ) reported Canaris (1777) that no schoolhouse was present, and so for every winter for school teaching a special room had been rented. There were no school lessons in the summer. At the moment there were five boys and nine girls; three young boys could write, but no child could count. For the winter school, the schoolmaster zu Merzig receives 3 Reichstaler and the food from house to house as so-called "convertible food".
After 1780 Georg Canaris was also active as an examiner for candidate teachers and in 1792 in the deliberations of the general school plan. In 1794 he and his parish had to experience the invasion of the French revolutionary troops and then a time of confiscations and various reprisals against the church. In addition, there was now again a complete neglect of school affairs, so that the work of the pastor, who had now come to an end as a school visitator, initially appeared in vain. Under the French administration he was briefly appointed President of the Canton of Konz in 1798/99.
Pastor Canaris was appointed pastor in Freudenburg in 1803 , but did not take up the pastorate. In the same year, however, he took over the pastoral position in Wehlen on the Moselle . Pastor Canaris died at the age of 79 in Wehlen on December 21, 1819. In Konz, his services to the parish school system were particularly recognized. The former footpath from the old location to the Konzerbrück got its name with Pfarrer-Canaris-Weg . The fountain figure (sculptor Willi Hahn, Trier) placed at Scharff-Eck , the residence of the schoolmasters and sextons working under Canaris in Konz, shows the school man Canaris with a warning gesture.
The nickname "Konzer Doctors" adhering to the group is said to result from the earlier (or better?) Schooling of the youth group compared to the surrounding area. The designation of Pastor Canaris as "Konzer Doktor-Vater" seems to be justified.
source
- Trier Biographical Lexicon, Dr. Heinz Monz, 2000, page 60;
- 200 years of the church choir St. Nikolaus Konz, Rudolf Molter, 1989;
- Catholic parish of St. Nikolaus Konz, Rudolf Marx, 1986;
- Konzer Chronik, Michael Scherer, 1970; with the kind permission of the author Rudolf Molter, Konz
Individual evidence
- ^ Reports on the school in Konz and teacher Scharff; 1753, 1788, 1792
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Canaris, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Canaris, Georg Josef Ignaz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Pastor and electoral archbishop school visitator of the diocese of Trier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1740 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ellwangen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 1819 |
| Place of death | Wehlen |