Josef Scheicher

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Josef Scheicher

Josef Scheicher (born February 18, 1842 in Lichtenhof near St. Stefan ob Stainz , † March 28, 1924 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Catholic priest and politician.

Life

Josef Scheicher was the son of a farming family on the farm vlg. "Geidl" in the village of Lichtenhof in western Styria . At the age of 13 he passed the entrance examination at the Academic Gymnasium in Graz and was accepted there. In the second year he switched to the episcopal boys' seminar and joined a German - nationally minded schoolboy association . He ended his seminar training prematurely, he wanted to catch up on the Matura in the Jesuit monastery St. Andrä in Lavanttal . The novitiate in this monastery was also terminated prematurely, at the gymnasium of theFranziskaner in Rudolfswerth in what was then Carniola , he was able to catch up on the Matura. He then entered the St. Pölten seminary and was ordained a priest in 1869 .

From 1872 he studied Catholic theology at the University of Vienna , 1875 he became the doctor of theology doctorate .

Josef Scheicher was buried on March 31, 1924 at the Vienna Central Cemetery. This grave was renovated in 2012 by representatives of his home community St. Stefan ob Stainz.

activity

After ordination in 1869, he worked as a chaplain ( cooperator ) in Waidhofen an der Ybbs , where his political career began. In 1875 he headed the editorial department of the magazine “St. Pöltner Bote ”, from 1879 Josef Scheicher was professor for moral theology in the seminary in St. Pölten. He was a prelate and apostolic pronotary .

From 1891 to 1898 he was a member of the St. Pölten community committee, from 1890 to 1919 he was a member of the state parliament , from 1897 to 1909 also of the Lower Austrian provincial committee and most recently a member of the provisional provincial assembly in Lower Austria . From 1894 to 1918 Josef Scheicher was a member of the Austrian Reichsrat , after which he was a member of the provisional national assembly from October 21, 1918 to February 16, 1919 . His areas of work were primarily the community, health care and road construction. He founded a number of popular education associations and published publications on social topics. His autobiography "Experiences and Memories" comprises six volumes.

A neo-Gothic church window in the parish church of St. Stefan ob Stainz from 1879 mentions Josef Scheicher as the founder.

Josef Scheicher is named one of the most important fighters for the Christian social movement . The fact that Lower Austria became the heartland of the Christian Social Party is said to be largely due to his work. He supported the social reformatory development of Karl von Vogelsang and the democratic self-government of the communities. Josef Scheicher is as significant promoters of anti-Semitism described in Lower Austria, in his speeches were anti-Semitic attacks before.

In 1911 Scheicher published the science fiction from the year 1920 - A dream in which Andrée , who had returned from his failed North Pole voyage for 23 years , found out that Austria, as "Ostmark", is now the core of the confederation of the "Unite Eastern States" - a bulwark against Pan-Germanism educative - now at the forefront of the European states. This development goes back to the idea of ​​a St. Pölten representative - with which Scheicher refers to himself - and is mainly a consequence of the exodus of the Jews, after which a Christian sentiment returned to the country. According to Nessun Saprà, Scheicher's "strongly anti-Semitic utopia" is "completely insignificant as literature [...], as a testimony to the intellectual constitution of the educated class of this era an almost unique document."

Works

Some of Josef Scheicher's works are also listed in libraries under the name variant Joseph Scheicher .

  • Interesting priestly life. 1923.
  • Poor brothers. A piece of time and church history. 1913.
  • Experiences and memories: 1. From youth. 2. From my studies. 3. From the priestly life. 4th-6th From political life. 1907-1912.
  • The Austrian Clergy Day. 1903.
  • From 1920. A dream. St. Pölten, Verlag Gregora 1900.
  • At the bay window. Novella wreath in two volumes, 1879.
  • Ostmark stories. Collected stories, novellas and humoresques 1898.
  • Practical Guide to Catholic Marriage Law. Freiburg im Breisgau, Verlag Herder, 4th edition 1891.
  • Compendium repetitorium theologieae moralis. Editio III. revisa. Vienna, Fromme publishing house 1890.
  • General moral theology. 1885.
  • Duchovenstvo a socialnl otazka. (Czech translation of: The clergy and the social question .) Brno: Benedictine printing house. 1884
  • The clergy and the social question Innsbruck, Verlag Rauch 1884. 2nd edition translated into five languages ​​in 1896.
  • The Lichtenhofer. A picture of life from the Styrian Alps. Vienna, Kirsch Publishing House, 1882.
  • Do not vote liberally! A call to his compatriots. Vienna 1877.
  • Yearbook of the constitutional people's association for the district of Ober-Wiener-Wald. St. Pölten 1877 ff.

literature

  • Hedwig David: Josef Scheicher as a social politician. Dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty Vienna, 1946.
  • Manfred Eder :  Scheicher, Josef. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 630 ( digitized version ).
  • Josef Kendl: Josef Scheicher, priest and politician on the threshold of a new era. Dissertation at the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Salzburg. St. Pölten 1967.
  • Alois Prinz von und zu Liechtenstein: Report on the celebration of the flag consecration and 25-year jubilee of the Catholic Workers' Association for Lower Austria on May 31, 1896 and reproduction of the speech given by… Prince Alois Lichtenstein and… Josef Scheicher. Ambrosius Opitz publishing house, Vienna 1896.
  • Anton Szanya: The dream of Josef Scheicher: State models in Austria 1880-1900. Studien-Verlag Vienna 2009. ISBN 978-3-7065-4424-5
  • Werner Tscherne: Josef Scheicher - fighter, priest and politician. A Styrian co-founder of the Christian Social Party. For his 155th birthday. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Styria. Graz, 1997. p. 215 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matricula Online - St. Stefan ob Stainz, Taufbuch 3, 1826–1847, page 313, entry no. 29, 1st line
  2. ↑ Friedhöfe Wien, Group 34. Extension B. Row 3. Grave No. 15. The grave was made available by his party friend, member of the National Council, Franz Oelzelt (supplement to the examination of the dead, Vienna City and State Archives, Describing Office A1: JA7399 / 1924). The right to use the grave is for the duration of the cemetery.
  3. ↑ a b c St. Stefan / Stainz: The Seppi von Lichtenhof. In memory of a great Stefan. Weekly newspaper Weststeirische Rundschau. Volume 85, No. 11 of March 9, 2012. Page 15.
  4. ↑ Die Presse .com (print edition March 12, 2008): From the tolerance patent to 1938: Jews in Lower Austria. .
  5. ↑ Josef Scheicher. In: oecv.at. December 17, 2017, accessed July 1, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Nessun SAPRA: Encyclopedia of German Science Fiction & Fantasy 1870-1918. Utopica, Oberhaid 2005, ISBN 3-938083-01-8 , p. 231 f.
personal data
SURNAME Sheikh, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian clergyman and politician (CS), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Lichtenhof near St. Stefan ob Stainz
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1924
Place of death Vienna