Johann Friedrich Hobbahn

Johann Friedrich Hobbahn (born September 30, 1693 in Söhnstetten ; † March 27, 1767 in Kitzingen ) was dean in Bietigheim from 1733 to 1737 . Due to his closeness to Duke Karl Alexander and Suss Oppenheimer , he lost his church offices in 1737, due to further contacts with Karl Alexander's widow Marie Auguste he was expelled from Württemberg in 1739.

Life

He was the son of the Söhnstetten pastor Johann Wilhelm Hobbahn. After studying theology and completing his master's degree in 1713, he was a repetiteur at the Tübingen Abbey , before he became court master of the Augsburg citizen von Rauner in 1718 . In 1724 he was a deacon in Marbach am Neckar . In 1725 he married Friederika Dorothea Hieffer, Maulbronn's daughter. Since he was considered highly gifted, the Prussian Consistory offered him a professorship in Frankfurt an der Oder in 1725 , which he was not allowed to take on at Duke Eberhard Ludwig's orders , as the latter had already reserved him for a professorship in Tübingen. In 1728 he succeeded his father as dean of Knittlingen, and in 1733 he became dean in Bietigheim.

Due to his proximity to the Ludwigsburg court around Duke Karl Alexander , who promoted him to dean of Schorndorf ten days before his death , and the Jew Suss Oppenheimer , to whom he had promised money for the title or the office of prelate , he came to the Death of the Duke in 1737 criticized. Just nine days after the death of Karl Alexander, the consortium was negotiating against Hobbahn, who was accused of being “too familiar with unbelievers and falsehoods”, as well as being “addicted to trading and restless beings, as well as the love for drinks, games and amusing companionships, which is quite evident in actis” and finally discharged him from church service.

In 1738, after a period of good behavior, he was partially rehabilitated and hired as a librarian at the Princely Library in Stuttgart with the title of professor . There, in his work Pro Memoria, he set out two possibilities for Duchess Marie Auguste , Karl Alexander's widow, how she could obtain the co- rulership denied her by Karl Alexander's successor, the regent Carl Rudolf . After his Pro Memoria was found in 1739, Hobbahn was expelled from the country.

Then Prince-Bishop Friedrich Karl von Schönborn-Buchheim gave him an office in the parish in Kitzingen, where he became pastor after the death of his predecessor. Hobbahn also came under fire in Kitzingen because he privately claimed the fourth instead of the usual tenth from a collection for the new church. He was ailing in the last seven years of his life.

literature

• Erwin Mickler: Magister Johann Friedrich Hobbahn, Dean in Bietigheim 1733–1737 , in: Blätter zur Stadtgeschichte, Issue 10, Bietigheim-Bissingen 1992