Jakob Knauber

Jakob Knauber, around 1930

Jakob Knauber as papal house prelate, (center)

Book cover of the biography about the papal officer Joseph Alois Bach

Jakob Knauber (born June 5, 1869 in Eisenberg , † November 5, 1950 in Godramstein ) was a priest of the Speyer diocese , prelate, professor and local writer.

Life

Jakob Knauber was born in Eisenberg in the north of the Palatinate in 1869. He came from a working-class family and served as a one-year volunteer in the Kgl. Bavarian Infantry Leibregiment München , an elite regiment in which only soldiers of impeccable repute and a handsome body size were accepted. He then studied theology and was ordained a priest on August 13, 1893 in Speyer . Knauber officiated as chaplain in Frankenthal (Palatinate) , Ludwigshafen- Mundenheim , Schifferstadt and Zweibrücken , was parish administrator in Ramstein and Heltersberg . On October 3, 1907 he became pastor of Bann , on August 2, 1913 of St. Sebastian in Mundenheim. From July 9, 1921, Jakob Knauber taught as a professor at the Ludwigshafen secondary school , in 1934 he retired and moved to the Augustinusheim Godramstein as an emeritus , where he taught and looked after the learning disabled children until his death. He received the honorary title of " Papal House Prelate ". He donated the high altar in his home church in Eisenberg (Palatinate) . As pastor of Bann he strongly encouraged the building of the branch church in Queidersbach , in Ludwigshafen am Rhein he suggested the creation of the communal municipal church gazette.

Historical and literary work

Prelate Knauber was very interested in local history and researched the history of his home parish Eisenberg (Palatinate) . He was also very active in this regard in his community in Ramstein and was therefore posthumously honored by Bernhard Paque in 1951, in Ramsteiner Heimatbrief No. 1 , with the article “Ramstein's first home researcher” . During his activity as a teacher Knauber wrote numerous essays and published several books on local church history, including a. 1927 a biography of the Palatinate donor prelate Jakob Friedrich Bussereau , which is his main work. Also known are his monographs on the papal Zouave officer Joseph Alois Bach , the 1st director of the Palatinate Railways, Albert von Jäger , sister Anna Maria Dudenhöffer (1850–1908), the co-founder and first head of the St. Paulus Foundation Landau-Queichheim, and about the local saint Philipp von Zell . A picture of the life of the important pastor Joseph Anton Krebs from Mundenheim was only published in 1991. He donated the royalties from his works to charity. An obituary and an obituary notice of Prelate Jakob Knauber are printed in Pilger , (diocese newspaper of the Diocese of Speyer) No. 46 of November 12, 1950. In the following edition No. 47 of November 19, 1950 there is a report on the burial on November 6th 1950 in Godramstein, which the Speyer Bishop Joseph Wendel (later Cardinal - Archbishop of Munich) performed personally in the presence of over 100 priests and a large mourning community.

Works

• " Albert von Jäger , Director of the Palatinate Railways (1814–1887)" , publishing house of the Catholic parish offices in Ludwigshafen, 1925
• "Valentin Knoll, senior teacher in Ludwigshafen (1854–1921)" , publishing house of the Catholic parish offices in Ludwigshafen, 1925
• "Prelate Jakob Friedrich Bussereau and his foundation" , Verlag St. Paulusstift Herxheim bei Landau, 1927
• "Sister Anna Maria Dudenhöffer (1850–1908), the co-founder and first head of the St. Paulusstiftes in Herxheim" , Verlag St. Paulusstift Herxheim bei Landau, 1928
• "The Papal Officer Joseph Alois Bach " , St. Joseph Verlag, Landau-Queichheim, 1932
• "Albert von Jäger, the 1st director of the Palatinate Railways" , St. Joseph Verlag, Landau-Queichheim, 1935
• "The hermit Philipp von Zell , a saint of the Palatinate" , Pilger Verlag, Speyer, 1938
• “Joseph Anton Krebs, pastor, dean and clergyman. Rat in Mundenheim (1839–1882) a life picture ” , published as part of the commemorative publication Die St. Josefspflege in Ludwigshafen-Mundenheim , by Karl Theodor Bergmann, Ludwigshafen, 1991

literature

• “Obituary and report on the burial” , Pilger , Speyer, no. 46 a. 47 from 1950
• "Ramstein's first homeland researcher" , by Bernhard Paque, in Ramsteiner Heimatbrief No. 1, 1951
• "Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities" (pages 364 and 365), Victor Carl, Henning Verlag, Edenkoben, 1998