Johann Baptist Sigl
Johann Baptist Sigl (born March 27, 1839 in Ascholtshausen ; † January 9, 1902 in Munich ) was a Bavarian journalist and editor as well as a politician.
Life
After attending school in Landshut, he first studied philosophy and theology at the University of Munich from 1860 . In 1862/63 he entered the Benedictine monastery of St. Boniface in Munich, but left the monastery after four months and studied law. Through the mediation of Daniel Bonifaz von Haneberg OSB, Abbot of St. Bonifaz, he got in touch with the publicist and politician Josef Edmund Jörg . In 1865 he became editor of the Volksbote for the citizen and farmer and the Straubinger Tagblatt ; he reported in 1866 as a war correspondent from Bohemia.
In 1871 he founded the Catholic People's Party , which was dissolved three years later. In 1892 he got involved with Georg Ratzinger in founding the Bavarian Farmers' Union ; his newspaper the Bavarian Fatherland became the official organ of the farmers' union. From 1893 to 1899 Sigl was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Niederbayern 6 (Kelheim). The independent particularist did not join any parliamentary group in the Reichstag. From 1897 to 1899 he was also a member of the state parliament of the farmers' union.
The Bavarian Fatherland
On April 1, 1869, he founded the Catholic, Bavarian newspaper Das bayerische Vaterland . The Bavarian fatherland soon became known and popular throughout Bavaria because of its open criticism of the German Chancellor and German imperial politics. Anti-Prussian reporting was also an essential feature of his newspaper. Together with the Bavarian Patriot Party , Sigl warned against Prussian militarism and a black-white-red empire . In view of the high losses during the war with France in 1870, Sigl only called the new German imperial crown the enlarged Prussian Pickelhaube . When the Reich was founded in 1870, Sigl wrote in the 'Bavarian Fatherland': "More wars, more cripples, more death lists and more tax slips ...".
The expression Saupreuss is ascribed to him. Sigl described the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck as the Prussian robber captain . His anti-Prussian reporting and insulting the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck earned him a ten-month prison sentence in 1875.
He was a member of the Catholic Bavarian student association KBSt.V. Rhaetia Munich .
Individual evidence
- ^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1003-1005.
- ^ Hubensteiner: Bayerische Geschichte , Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, 17th edition 2009, p. 431
literature
- Rupert Sigl: Dr. Sigl. A life for the Bavarian fatherland. Rosenheim 1977, ISBN 3-475-52201-2 .
- Benno Hubensteiner: Bavarian history, state and people, art and culture. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7991-5684-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Baptist Sigl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry about Johann Baptist Sigl on landtag-bayern.de
- The Bavarian Fatherland
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sigl, Johann Baptist |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist, editor and politician, MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ascholtshausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1902 |
| Place of death | Munich |