Johannes Herrenschneider

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Johannes Herrenschneider

Johannes Herrenschneider (* 1723 in Strasbourg ; † 1802 there ) was a Lutheran clergyman in Strasbourg and court preacher in the county of Gaugrehweiler .

Life

Herrenschneider was first director at the grammar school in Grünstadt and later "spiritual inspector" and court preacher at the court of Carl Magnus von Rheingrafenstein in Gaugrehweiler. As such, he was responsible for the entire clergy of the county and was the supreme body of the sovereign church regiment .

On February 15, 1773 he was seriously injured in an assassination attempt. His then ten-year-old daughter was killed in the attack. His subordinate pastor Valentin from Bad Munster had fired a load of chopped lead through the window of the dining room in which Herrenschneider was having dinner with his family. The girl died instantly. Herrenschneider himself, who was the target of the attack, was injured in the shoulder. Valentin initially escaped unnoticed and the initial suspicion fell on the Rhine Count Carl Magnus. Shortly before, Herrenschneider had seriously accused his employer of fraud. When the investigative commission found the real perpetrator, he took his own life. The background to the crime has not been fully clarified. Friedrich Christian Laukhard names a previous insult and Herrenschneider's authoritarian conduct as the motive for the crime.

As a result of this incident, Herrenschneider left the Palatinate with his family and became a pastor in Rappoltsweiler in Alsace . In 1777 he became a deacon in the St. Thomas Church appointed to Strasbourg and a few years later eventually becoming pastor of Aureliagemeinde . He held this office until his death.

During Robespierre's reign of terror , he was arrested in May 1794 together with Isaak Haffner (1751-1831), Johann Lorenz Blessig and other Strasbourg clergy as opponents of the Jacobins and held until the 9th Thermidor .

effect

His administration in Gaugrehweiler was controversial. Friedrich Christian Laukhard, whose father, as pastor of Wendelsheim, was subordinate to Herrenschneider, accuses him of having acted with papal authority and of having made a comfortable life for himself at the expense of the farmers and simple clergy. Johann Lahr resolutely opposes these statements in a public article.

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literature

  • Friedrich Christian Laukhard : FC Laukhards, formerly Magister of Philosophy and now musketeer under the Thaddenschen Regiment zu Halle, Leben und Fatesale, described by himself and published as a warning for parents and young students . tape 1 . Michaelis and Bispink, Halle 1792, p. 21st ff., 58 ff . ( Digitized and full text in the German text archive ).
  • Johann Ludwig Alexander Herrenschneider: Prof. Herrenschneider's in Strasburg defense of his father against a position in Laukhards's life and fate . In: General literary indicator . 1798, p. 660–661 ( full text in Google Book Search).
  • Friedrich Christian Laukhard: Life and deeds of the Rhine Count Carl Magnus, whom Joseph II sent to prison in Königstein for ten years in order to learn to respect the rights of subjects and other people. Halle 1798 ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Johann Lahr: Some things to correct FC Laukhard's literary character . In: Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung . No. 110 , 1804, pp. 885–888 ( full text in Google Book Search).
  • Biography of his eldest son Johann Ludwig Alexander Herrenschneider with information on Herrenschneider's life: Georg Friedrich August Schmidt et al .: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . Voigt Ilmenau 1845, p. 102 ff . ( Full text in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich August Schmidt et al .: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . 1845, p. 102 ff . ( Full text in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ a b c Friedrich Christian Laukhard: The life and deeds of the Rhine Count Carl Magnus, whom Joseph II sent to prison in Königstein for ten years to learn to respect the rights of subjects and other people. Halle 1798 ( full text in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ Johann Lahr: Some to correct FC Laukhard's literary character . In: Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung . No. 110 , 1804, pp. 885-888 .
personal data
SURNAME Men's tailor, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herrenschneider, J .; Men's tailor, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran clergyman in Strasbourg and court preacher in the county of Gaugrehweiler
DATE OF BIRTH 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH 1802
Place of death Strasbourg