Jakob Isbert (priest)

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Jakob Isbert (born August 15, 1846 in Kirchsahr , † December 27, 1888 in Trier ) was a Roman Catholic priest in the Kulturkampf of the Diocese of Trier .

Life

Jakob Isbert, son of a teacher of the same name and Katharina Liethert from Houverath , was chaplain of the former St. Gervasius church in Trier from August 24, 1869 , together with Georg Friedrich Dasbach , and was ordained a priest on August 29, 1869 .

In 1872 Isbert became sub-rector at the episcopal Konvikt . He participated in public protests against the Redemptorist mission ban and was charged with insulting the royal government. Matthias Eberhard , Bishop of Trier, disregarded the laws enacted as part of the Kulturkampf and called Isbert to the vacated pastor's position in Namborn without notifying the royal Prussian authorities beforehand as required, whereupon District Administrator Karl Hermann Rumschöttel publicly accused Isbert of an illegal act . On October 18, 1873, the mayor of Alsweiler , Wilhelm Woytt, forbade him to use the rectory and he could only visit Namborn secretly at night. During the day he stayed in the Principality of Birkenfeld . In his absence, Isbert was sentenced to a total of 3,100 thalers fine or two years and seven months imprisonment in eleven trials up to the summer of 1874 and had to flee to the Principality of Birkenfeld several times.

He was arrested on July 6, 1874, whereupon massive clashes broke out between the police and parishioners. The Namborn case was one of the most serious conflicts in the Diocese of Trier. On July 28, 1874, Isbert was expelled from the Trier administrative district and imprisoned in Saarbrücken . On January 22, 1877, he was released from custody with a chronic illness and expelled from Prussia. He was a chaplain in Edesheim until 1883 and then moved to the position of vicar in Linz am Rhein .

Isbert was pardoned on October 24, 1884 by the Upper President of the Rhine Province .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Fohrmann: Trier Kulturkampfpublizistik im Bismarckreich. Paulinus-Verlag, 1977, p. 18.
  2. ↑ Isbert, Jacob. In: Ulrich Fohrmann: Trier Kulturkampfpublizistik im Bismarckreich. Paulinus-Verlag, 1977, p. 365, footnote 101.
  3. ^ David Blackbourn : Marpingen - The German Lourdes in the Bismarckian Age , Historical Contributions of the Saarbrücken State Archives, Volume 6, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-9808556-8-6 , p. 133
personal data
SURNAME Isbert, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isbert, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic priest in the Trier Kulturkampf
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchsahr
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1888
Place of death trier