Johannes Maria Assmann

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Johannes Baptist Maria Assmann (born August 26, 1833 in Branitz ; † May 27, 1903 in Ahrweiler ) was a Catholic clergyman and field provost ( military bishop ) of the Prussian army .

Life

Johannes Baptist Maria Assmann was the son of the innkeeper Franz Assmann from Branitz (Upper Silesia), in the Prussian part of the Archdiocese of Olomouc, and attended the Leobschütz high school . He studied philosophy , from 1855 theology at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau , received on 15 July 1860 Olomouc the priesthood and worked 1861-1864 in the office of Kooperators to Katscher (today Kietrz ). From January 1865 to July 1868 the priest served as missionary and military chaplain in Kolberg , from 1868 to 1882 as divisional pastor in Neisse and from 1882 to 1888 as provost at St. Hedwig in Berlin. Here the prelate was also the prince-bishop's delegate for Brandenburg and Pomerania , thus representing the responsible, but distant, prince-bishop of Breslau and the highest-ranking Catholic clergyman residing in Berlin. In the German-German War of 1866 and in the German-French campaign of 1870/71 Assmann held the office of Prussian field chaplain.

Provost Assmann tried successfully to alleviate the tensions between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Catholic Church that had arisen as a result of the Kulturkampf . When the Prussian government reintroduced the office of field provost (military bishop), Assmann was appointed Catholic field provost of the Prussian army and titular bishop of Philadelphia in Lydia on June 1, 1888 ; He received the episcopal ordination on October 15, 1888 in St. Hedwig zu Berlin, from the Breslau prince-bishop Georg von Kopp .

As a military bishop he was responsible for all Catholic army and marine soldiers with families until his death in 1903, not only in Prussia, but also in the small German states and in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine .

From 1856 Johannes Maria Assmann was a member of the Corps Lusatia Breslau , which produced many Catholic clergy. In 1882 he became an active member of the Catholic Student Union Burgundia (now KStV Askania-Burgundia ) in the KV in Berlin.

Assmann died unexpectedly during a spa stay in Bad Ahrweiler and was buried in his home town of Branitz.

literature

  • Erwin Gatz (ed.): The bishops of the German-speaking countries 1785/1803 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-428-05447-4 , 1983, p. 17.
  • Siegfried Koß: Johannes Maria Assmann. In: Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 4th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 5). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1996, ISBN 3-89498-032-X , pp. 11-12.
  • Leo Society : The Catholic Church in Our Time and its Servants in Word and Image , Volume 2; Pp. 231–232 (with photo), Leo Society, Vienna 1899.
  • Walther Killy (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . Assmann, Johann Baptist (Maria). 1st edition. tape 1 . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag; KG Sauer (paperback edition), Munich 2001, ISBN 3-423-59053-X , p. 207 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The prince-bishop's delegation for Brandenburg and Pomerania was the Catholic jurisdiction from which the diocese of Berlin emerged on August 13, 1930 .
  2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 30 , 169.
  3. ↑ Source on the circumstances of death
predecessor Office successor
Franz Adolf Namszanowski Prussian field
provost 1888–1903 		Heinrich Vollmar
Robert Herzog Prince-Bishop's delegate for Brandenburg and Pomerania
1882–1888 		Joseph Jahnel
personal data
SURNAME Assmann, Johannes Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Assmann, Johannes Baptist Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bishop
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Branitz
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1903
Place of death Ahrweiler