Hermann Sickenberger

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Hermann Sickenberger, 1906

Hermann Sickenberger (born May 11, 1851 in Weiherhammer , Upper Palatinate, † June 2, 1923 in Weilheim i.OB ) was a teacher and member of the Bavarian Center Party in the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies , from 1912 a Catholic priest .

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Hermann Sickenberger was born as the son of mountain councilor Franz Sickenberger (1819–1893) and his wife Anna, b. Eckart was born in Weiherhammer , Upper Palatinate . Together with his siblings, including the later educator and writer Therese Tesdorpf-Sickenberger and the priest, anti-celibacy and philosopher Otto Sickenberger , he grew up in Berchtesgaden and Munich.

After studying at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Würzburg, he entered the secondary school service and taught first in Freising and from 1895 at the Luitpold-Kreisoberrealschule in Munich. From 1899 he was a center deputy for the constituency of Munich I. of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies on. On March 29, 1903, Sickenberger renounced his mandate in the state parliament as a result of the promotion to high school professor.

Hermann Sickenberger was a conservative Catholic, very committed to the church and, as an activist, also belonged to the Marian sodality . He took part in numerous pilgrimages and often appeared as a speaker. At the General German Sodal Day in 1907 in Linz , he gave a celebratory address with the title “Our Lady of Victory”, printed in the event's commemorative publication. He represented positions of Catholicism and belonged to the ultramontane camp of Catholics, that is, loyal to Rome. In terms of party politics, he tried to mediate between the left and right wing of the Bavarian Center Party, but at the turn of the century he already represented völkisch-anti-Semitic positions.

After he had not been able to prevail within the party for a renewed candidacy for the state parliament in 1907, there was a break with the center. After the death of his wife in 1909, he largely withdrew from politics and the public and initially tried his hand at writing ("Werner, der Schire" and "Barbarossa"). At the age of 61, he was finally ordained a priest on August 4, 1912 by the Archbishop of Munich, Franziskus von Bettinger , and for the following years, until his retirement in 1914, also taught as a religion teacher at the Luitpold secondary school in Munich.

Shortly after retiring, heart problems solidified, which Sickenberger had been with for years. He spent the last years of his life as a commorant (assistant priest) in Weilheim i. OB., Where he died childless on June 2, 1923.

Works

Hermann Sickenberger published several historical and Catholic books, as well as two prose works:

  • Atom or substance, 1st part of an introduction to the history of mankind , 1885
  • Creation and its charter, part 2 of an introduction to human history , 1886
  • Man and his history, Part 3 of an introduction to the history of mankind , 1887
  • Principles of Historiography, Part 4 of an Introduction to Human History , 1888
  • Guide to History for Middle Schools , 1892 ( digitized part 1 ).
  • German History for School and Home , 1895
  • Restoration of the Catholic faith in Germany , 1904
  • Werner, the Schire , 1910
  • Barbarossa , 1910

literature

  • Marc Rothballer: “Hermann Sickenberger (1851–1923). Politician - educator - priest - anti-Semite. ” In: Oberpfälzer Heimat, Volume 62 (2018), pp. 153–172
  • Otto Weiss: “Modernism in Germany: a contribution to the history of theology” , page 252, Pustet Verlag, Regensburg, 1995, ISBN 3791714783 ; Text excerpt from Hermann Sickenberger
  • Horst Peter Schamari: “Church and State in the Bavarian Parliament at the time of Prince Regent Luitpold” , Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, 1978, page 360; Text excerpt
  • Adalbert Knapp: “The Center in Bavaria 1893–1912” , 1973, page 127; Text excerpt

Web links

Commons : Hermann Sickenberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marc Rothballer: Hermann Sickenberger (1851-1923). Politician - educator - priest - anti-Semite. In: Oberpfälzer Heimat , Volume 62 (2018), pp. 160ff.
  2. ↑ See, inter alia, Münchner Zeitung, 32nd vol., No. 152 of June 5, 1923, p. 5. The date of his death is often incorrectly given as June 4, 1923.
personal data
SURNAME Sickenberger, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian priest and politician (Center Party)
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Weiherhammer
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1923
Place of death Weilheim in Upper Bavaria