Gerhard Führer

Gerhard Führer SOCist (born August 12, 1745 in Erding as Sebastian Maximilian Führer , † April 4, 1820 in Fürstenfeldbruck ) was a Bavarian Cistercian and the last abbot of Fürstenfeld Abbey .

Life

Sebastian Maximilian Führer, born in Erding in 1745 as the son of a carpenter, attended the Fürstenfeld monastery seminar and the Munich Jesuit grammar school and joined the Cistercian Abbey of Fürstenfeld at the age of 20 . Ordained a priest in 1770, he was first provisional of Schöngeising , and after three years novice master , then professor of philosophy and theology, librarian and since 1783 prior . He carried out meteorological observations for the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , for which he was later appointed an extraordinary member, and made outstanding contributions to the reorganization of the monastery library.

He was elected abbot on July 18, 1796. His short term of office was marked by the Napoleonic Wars , in which the French troops occupied Bavaria demanded huge sums of contributions from the monastery - in 1801 alone 50,000 guilders - and finally the monastery was closed on March 18, 1803. The monastery treasury was confiscated as early as 1802, a little more than 3000 guilders, but this was offset by debts of almost 220,000 guilders.

After secularization in Bavaria , he continued to live in the monastery with a few monks. In 1817 he moved to Bruck, where he died and was buried in 1820. His gravestone has been preserved. In retirement he wrote a handwritten chronicle of the Fürstenfeld monastery, which is kept in the Bavarian State Library.

literature

• Alfons Maria Scheglmann : History of secularization in Bavaria on the right bank of the Rhine , Volume 3. Verlag J. Habbel, Regenburg 1908
• The last conventuals of Fürstenfeld. In: Cistercienser Chronik 2 (1890), pp. 2-4

Web links

• Gerhard Führer in the Biographia Cisterciensis