Georg Müller (Abbot)

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Georg Müller OSB (* in the 15th century in Tettnang ; † October 11, 1556 in Ochsenhausen ) was the 9th abbot of the imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen in today's Biberach district in Upper Swabia .

Life

Georg Müller had been prior of the monastery for twenty-six years when he was elected abbot in 1541. He came from a middle-class family from Tettnang. During his tenure, the religious division that has persisted to this day within Western European Christianity became an irreversible fact. One point of criticism of the Reformation was the inadequate training of the clergy. The Benedictine Congregation wanted to counteract this criticism. Together with the abbots of the prince pin Kempten , Weingarten Abbey , Abbey Ottobeuren , elchingen abbey , monastery Zwiefalten , Wiblingen Monastery , Monastery Irsee and Donauwörth planned Abt Georg 1542 in the kemptischen spots Legau a study house for the young religious youth. Abbot Leonhard Wiedemann from the Ottobeuren monastery made the premises in Ottobeuren available for three years until the required buildings were erected. The building was never built and the project fizzled out after three years.

Baltringen

Seal of the Baltringer Heap 1525; Shown is a ploughshare and the initials DWGBIE - The Word of God Remains In Eternity (Isaiah 40: 8b)

In the nearby free imperial city of Biberach, from which six abbots of the convent have so far emerged, the Reformation with its justified criticism of the social grievances of Catholicism with its indulgences and relics trade had gained a foothold. In the magistrate of the imperial city of evangelical councils had the majority. In 1542 the magistrate decreed that Pastor Konrad Knecht from Baltringen should be deprived of his priestly functions. Baltringen was a restless place. Less than twenty years earlier, the farmers in Baltringen formed the Baltringer Haufen . Abbot Georg opposed this decision and asked the umbrella bailiwick of the imperial city of Ulm for help in the legal dispute. The protective power, the most important city in the Swabian Reichskreis and seat of the Reichskreistag, had meanwhile also mostly become Protestant. But on October 16, 1542 she made the following decision:

  1. Pastor Konrad Knecht is allowed to stay in the Baltringen rectory with full payments until Georgi , April 23, 1543. Any papal cult is prohibited, as is the celebration of Holy Mass.
  2. After St. George's Day, the rectory falls to his brother-in-law and his sister. The compensation to Pastor Knecht is 150 guilders.
  3. The patronage right of Baltringen falls to Biberach, which can also determine the pastor of Baltringen.
  4. Claims of the pastor of Laupheim and the Messner zu Sulmingen, as well as the pound of Heller to the Bishop of Konstanz, must pay pastor Konrad Knecht until Georgi, then the imperial city of Biberach.
  5. This provision can be overridden by the emperor.

The imperial city of Ulm moved two companies of soldiers to the monastery to generally restore peace and enforce its verdict . The monastic chancellor Johann von Thierberg then abdicated in 1546. Georg Greck was his successor. He appointed a Protestant preacher for the salvation of the ulm soldiers' souls and decreed that the Rom cult worship should cease in the collegiate church.

resignation

In 1547 Abbot Georg fled to Augsburg . Emperor Charles V stayed in Augsburg for the Reichstag in Augsburg and listened to the abbot's request. Abbot Gerwig Blarer from Weingarten Monastery, a close confidante of the emperor, was also in Augsburg. The emperor recommended Abbot Georg to resign and to propose the dignity of the abbot to the imperial secret council and apostolic legate Gerwig Blarer, who had already been abbot of Weingarten. Gerwig Blarer, the leader of the Catholics of Upper Swabia, stood for election to the Ochsenhausen convent and was elected in 1547. As soon as the news spread from Augsburg about the resignation of Abbot Georg and his successor in Ochsenhausen, the Ulm troops evacuated the spiritual area of ​​the imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen without a fight.

Abbot Georg withdrew into the monastic silence and died on October 11, 1556 in Ochsenhausen.

literature

  • Georg Geisenhof : Brief history of the former Reichsstift Ochsenhausen in Swabia. Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829 ( digitized version ).
  • Volker Himmelein (ed.): Old monasteries, new masters. The secularization in the German southwest 1803. Large state exhibition Baden-Württemberg 2003. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 3-7995-0212-2 (exhibition catalog and essay volume).
  • Volker Himmelein, Franz Quarthal (Ed.): Vorderösterreich, Only the tail feather of the imperial eagle? The Habsburgs in the German southwest. Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Ulm 1999, ISBN 3-88294-277-0 (catalog of the state exhibition).
  • Elmar Kuhn (Ed.): The Peasants' War in Oberschwaben. Tübingen.
  • Heribert Smolinsky : Church history of the modern age. Part 1. 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Geisenhof : Brief history of the former imperial monastery Ochsenhausen in Swabia . Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829 ( digitized , p. 80)
predecessor Office successor
Andreas I. Kindscher OSB Abbot of Ochsenhausen
1541–1547 		Gerwig Blarer OSB
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ninth abbot of the imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Tettnang
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1556
Place of death Ochsenhausen