Josef Nischbach

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Josef Nischbach (born March 17, 1889 in Újbesenyő ( German  Neubeschenowa ), Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † June 20, 1970 in Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany ) was a professor of theology , canon and papal house prelate .

Life

Josef Nischbach was the ninth child of the small housekeeper Josef Nischbach and Margarethe geb. Feth. From 1900 to 1908 he attended the Piaristengymnasium in Temesvár (German: Timisoara , Romanian: Timişoara ) and put there in June 1908, the High School from 1913 he was selected by Bishop Julius von Glattfelder after studying theology at the seminary in Temesvár for priests ordained from 1913 to 1914 he was chaplain in Oravica (German Orawitz ) and Glogovácz (German Glogowatz ). After a sick leave at the Notre-Dame Convent in Temesvár-Fabrikstadt, he was chaplain in Rezsőháza (German Rudolfsgnad ) in 1915/16 and military chaplain from 1916 to 1918 . In 1918 he became a chaplain and catechist in Zsombolya (German: Hatzfeld ), in 1919 a catechist at the German Realgymnasium and head of studies at the boys' boarding school there. At the same time he was spiritual of the Jesuleum nunnery and was appointed professor of theology. In October 1920 he became a catechist and deputy director at the Catholic-German teacher training institute in Fabric , a district of Timișoara ; Boarding school director. In 1923 he succeeded Franz Kräuter as its director. Between 1926 and 1941 he headed the Banatia student home and from 1926 to 1942 the German Teachers' Training Institute in Timișoara. In 1924 he was a prosynodial judge, and in 1930 deputy chairman of the Banat German Cultural Association . On October 16, 1931, he was granted the honor of dome. In 1933 he was a prosynodial examiner and distinguished himself through his services to the expansion of the German Catholic schools in the Romanian Banat; he was head of the Bonifatiuswerk there and organized a. a. School service in the diaspora communities; organized educational courses for the further training of German teachers in the Banatia. For several years he founded and headed the Federation of German Catholic Youth Associations in the Romanian Banat. In 1941 he handed over the management of the German teacher training institute of the Banatia student home to Johann Eckim on the orders of the ethnic group leadership and was canon of the Timișoara diocese from 1941 to 1970 . 1942 to 1944 he gave lessons as a religion teacher at the girls' school in Timișoara; and lived in the canon house on Piața Unirii . From 1945 to 1946, Nischbach collected for children of parents abducted to Russia , received returnees, and campaigned for interned Germans.

On March 10, 1951, he was arrested and sentenced to 20 years in prison for espionage , high treason , connection to Western states, letting Nazi and fascist activity in the Banatia educational institution and in the youth organizations of the Timișoara diocese, in the Timișoara penitentiaries , Bucharest , Jilava , Aiud , Ocnele Mari , Piteşti . On June 1, 1959, the Sisters Prioress Hildegardis Wulff and Sr. Patricia Zimmermann and Franz Kräuter exchanged for two Romanian spies in West Berlin . In 1960 Pope John XXIII appointed him . to the papal house prelate . Nischbach became chairman of the Southeast German Priestly Work and pastor of the expellees. He lived in the guest house of the St. Lioba monastery in Freiburg im Breisgau , where he resumed his relief efforts and country team work.

He died on June 20, 1970 and was buried in the St. Lioba monastery cemetery in Freiburg ( Breisgau ) - Günterstal . On November 6, 1999, the Josef Nischbach senior citizen center named after him was opened in Ingolstadt . 2000 prompted Bishop Martin Roos the reburial to Nischbachs 30th anniversary in a crypt in the cathedral of Timisoara .

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SURNAME Nischbach, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Theology professor, canon and papal house prelate
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Újbesenyő , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1970
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau