Johann Hermann Joseph von Caspars zu Weiss

Johann Hermann Joseph Freiherr von Caspars zu Weiss (born March 5, 1744 in Cologne , † August 15, 1822 in Cologne) was Vicar General and Capitular Vicar of the Archdiocese of Cologne from 1801 to 1822 .

Life

Caspars belonged to a Cologne patrician family. He received spiritual training in Cologne and soon received various benefices from prestigious foundations in the city. In 1782 he was dean of St. Georg, thesaurar of St. Gereon and canon of St. Maria in the Capitol.

On July 27, 1801, after the death of Archbishop Maximilian Franz of Austria, he was unanimously elected vicar of the capitulars. As a result of the bull of November 29, 1801 issued on the basis of the French Concordat of July 15, 1801, the Archdiocese of Cologne on the left bank of the Rhine, which had been ceded to France, was repealed in favor of the newly founded Diocese of Aachen . However, the goods of the Archdiocese of Cologne on the preserved area of ​​the right bank of the Rhine were secularized , so that the cathedral chapter dispersed for lack of income. It seemed to Caspsers hardly possible any more to run an orderly ecclesiastical administration. In 1805 the vicariate was moved from Arnsberg to Deutz . Due to the low financial resources, Caspers carried out the official business from the back building of the small inn "Zumgrün Baum". Caspars managed to maintain the administration of the deanery and parish and to guarantee the legal continuation of the cathedral chapter on the right bank of the Rhine. He appointed his secretary, the Apostolic Protonotary Johann Wilhelm Schmitz, as his successor by virtue of papal authority .

literature

• Hermann Hüffer:  Caspars zu Weiß, Johannes, Hermann Joseph Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 56 f.