Jacob Reeb
Jakob Reeb (born May 24, 1842 in Schifferstadt ; † April 22, 1917 in Munich ) was a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Speyer and a member of the Bavarian State Parliament in Munich.
Live and act
Jakob Reeb came from Schifferstadt in the Bavarian Rhine District ; his parents were simple farmers. He attended elementary school in his home parish. The local pastor Ernst Freiherr von Gagern discovered his spiritual qualities, encouraged him and awakened in him the calling to become a clergyman. Reeb attended the Bischöfliche Konvikt and grammar school in nearby Speyer and completed his studies in Munich. On August 18, 1867, he was ordained a priest by the Speyer bishop Nikolaus von Weis . Initially a chaplain in Speyer and Landau (Palatinate) , Reeb became a religion teacher at the Humanistic Gymnasium in Zweibrücken on October 1, 1869 . In 1873 he also took over pastoral care at the prison there . Here he got to know in particular the plight of the juvenile offenders who were locked up with adult serious criminals.
From 1899 to 1911 the priest had a mandate as a center delegate in the Bavarian state parliament, elected for the constituency of St. Ingbert . In parliament he advocated the separation of juvenile and adult prisoners. He advocated the rehabilitation of young people and, in 1902, together with the Ministerial Advisor Dr. Ferdinand Englert, in Bavaria the so-called “compulsory education law” was launched, which for the first time focused less on punishment and more on education for young people; a revolutionary innovation at the time. Reeb became the state parliament clerk for the forced education law and in 1905 also founded the Catholic Youth Welfare Association of the Palatinate , of which he remained chairman until his death. Together with the later cathedral capitular Franz Joseph Gebhardt , who - like Reeb - had pastored prisoners for many years, he invited the founding of this association on September 20, 1905. He was supposed to create a welfare home to take in stranded young people and an umbrella organization to place young people in host families willing to take them. The initiators Jakob Reeb, Franz Joseph Gebhardt and the poet-priest Fritz Claus formed the board . Well-known personalities such as cathedral priest Franz Bettinger (later cardinal) and state parliament member Dr. Josef Siben from Deidesheim . For decades the association and the St. Joseph welfare home built in Landau- Queichheim in 1910 , under its long-time director, Prelate Nikolaus Moll , had a very beneficial effect. The Association of Catholic Youth Welfare , which is now nationwide, developed from the Palatinate association, and St. Josephsheim became the St. Joseph Youth Organization , Landau-Queichheim .
After his retirement, Jakob Reeb moved to Munich in 1910, where he was now also the first chairman of the Bavarian State Committee for Child Welfare . He died there in 1917. The Jakob Reeb School in Landau (Palatinate) is named after him.
In addition to his professional and political activities, Jakob Reeb was also very interested in history and was one of the founders of the Zweibrücken Historical Society in 1873 . The priest bore the honorary title of a royal Bavarian clergyman .
literature
- Diocese of Speyer: Obituary , in the Oberhirtlichen Ordinance Gazette for the Diocese of Speyer , No. 11, from May 9, 1917, pages 193 and 194 of the year
- Nikolaus Moll : St. Joseph's Landerziehungsheim zu Landau-Queichheim , St. Josefs Verlag, Landau-Queichheim, 1935
- Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities , 3rd edition, Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben, 2004, ISBN 3-9804668-5-X , page 694
Web links
- Jakob Reeb in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
- Website on the history of Catholic child welfare, with a short biography of Jakob Reeb
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the St. Joseph youth organization with an overview photo of the institute that can be enlarged
- ↑ Jakob Reeb School website
- ↑ Chronicle of the Historisches Verein Zweibrücken (about Jakob Reeb in the 2nd paragraph)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reeb, Jacob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German priest and politician (Center Party), member of the Bavarian state parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schifferstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1917 |
| Place of death | Munich |