Josef Staab

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Josef Staab (born December 28, 1919 in Kiedrich ; † January 14, 2009 at Johannisberg Castle in Geisenheim ) was a qualified farmer and domain councilor at Johannisberg Castle, as well as a historian and publicist.

Life

Josef Staab came from one of the oldest wine-growing families in Kiedricher. He attended elementary school there until 1931 and then moved to the municipal high school in Eltville . From 1934 to 1937 he attended the humanistic Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Montabaur , where he passed the final examination.

He then studied Catholic theology in Frankfurt until 1939. Then he was with the Reich Labor Service and was then released from military service to work in his parents' company. After an agricultural and winemaking apprenticeship at Johannisberg Castle, he passed the winemaking assistant examination in 1942 .

In 1942 Staab began studying agriculture at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , which, interrupted by military service, he was only able to complete after the war - with great success.

The qualified farmer began his professional career in 1948 at the Geilweilerhof Institute for Vine Breeding in the Palatinate. On April 1, 1956, he moved to Schloss Johannisberg , where he headed the Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg'sche domain under Paul Alfons von Metternich-Winneburg from 1968 as a domain councilor . Even when the domain was transferred to Henkell & Söhnlein in 1980 , he remained there in a managerial position until the end of his professional life.

Act

Staab has written a lot, be it in the form of small contributions or large publications and scientific publications. Wine culture was his central theme.

He joined the Kiedricher Choir Foundation in 1928 as a “ choir boy” and was an active singer until 1986. He made a decisive contribution to finding and preserving the original forms of Gregorian chant in the Germanic choral dialect. For this purpose he also published on the Kiedricher Graduale .

A cultural-historical study of Kiedrich and his tenacity is attributed to the fact that the Gothic wine village was able to retain its independence in the course of the regional reform in Hesse . Staab also brokered Kiedrich's sisterhood with the Hautvillers .

Honors

The work of Josef Staab received a lot of recognition in the Rheingau and especially in his home town of Kiedrich:

Web links

  • Biography at the Society for the History of Wine

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rheingau Echo of January 29, 2009: Fixed place in history and in the heart. Dr. hc Josef Staab was buried after a solemn requiem ( memento from November 8, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ^ Rheingau Echo from January 3, 2013: Josef Staab - His work in the Rheingau. Förderkreis Kiedricher Geschichts- und Kulturzeugen presented its latest publication.
personal data
SURNAME Staab, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graduate farmer, domain councilor, historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiedrich
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2009
Place of death Geisenheim