Joseph Kolkmann

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Joseph Kolkmann (born April 4, 1839 in Verl / Westphalia; † December 8, 1880 in Berlin ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Wilhelm Joseph Konrad Kolkmann was the eldest son of the farmer and landowner Christoph Kolkmann and his wife Carolina, nee. van Dyk. His father was a co-founder and chairman of the democratic association in Verl during the revolution of 1848/49 . Joseph Kolkmann attended schools in Rietberg , Münster and Warendorf .

In the winter semester of 1861/62 he began studying law at the University of Göttingen and became a member of the Brunsviga fraternity . He then studied in Bonn and Berlin, where he passed the state examination in law. In 1867 he was appointed trainee lawyer at the Paderborn Court of Appeal, was promoted to court assessor and also received his doctorate in Göttingen in 1870. In November 1871 he was appointed district judge in Löbau in West Prussia. He remained in this position until his dismissal from civil service in 1877.

Even before the founding of his own congregations, Kolkmann appeared in Paderborn as a supporter of Old Catholicism , which reflected his marriage in June 1871 to Emma Franzisca, née Emmerich made it difficult because they were refused a church wedding. Only after a public protest was the couple finally given their certificate of marriage.

From 1868 to 1876, in the midst of the Kulturkampf , Kolkmann came into conflict as the author of pamphlets and newspaper articles against the ultra-montanists loyal to Rome , against monastic orders, and against the infallibility (infallibility) of the Pope with the Catholic Church. The slogan “First the French, then the Jesuits!” Uttered during the Franco-Prussian War goes back to him . In particular, however, his name is linked to the Rebbert-Kolkmann controversy, in which he positioned himself against the anti-Jewish writings of the priest Joseph Rebbert and the Paderborn bishop Konrad Martin :

“That is my firm conviction that hostility towards Jews is incompatible with a solid education of our time. I say that without any arrogance, since it is obvious that the person who sees through the unfounded antipathy against the Jews has not yet legitimized himself as a great spirit. But I must be absolutely certain that true intellectual education, which is up to date with our time, and hostility towards Jews are two completely incompatible things. The following sheets are intended to provide evidence for my assertions, insofar as the bottomlessness of the views on which the hostility to Jews is based is demonstrated. "

- Joseph Kolkmann: The social position of the Jews, p. 5f.

The historian Olaf Blaschke counts Kolkmann's book from 1876 and, with reference to the German Empire, under "the meager half dozen Catholic writings that showed solidarity with the Jews and exposed the absurdity of anti-Semitism." Under the pseudonym Nicolaus Planenberg, he also published polemical writings critical of the judiciary with his publisher Richard Skrzeczek in Löbau. Skrzeczek, with whom Kolkmann lived, was then given testimony in order to find out the true authorship. This ultimately led to Kolkmann's dismissal from Prussian civil service in 1878.

The pseudonym "J. Perinhart" can also be assigned to Kolkmann. The editors of the Israelitische Wochenschrift assumed that the author of the text "Die Deutschen Juden und Wilhelm Marr", which was also published by Skrzeczek in Löbau in 1879, was the district judge Kolkmann, "the author of the excellent brochure: The social position of the Jews." Perinhart's, presumably Kolkmann's polemic, was directed against Wilhelm Marr's racial anti-Semitism.

After his release, Kolkmann sought to be admitted to the bar, although he was already ill. He died on December 8, 1880 in the Kaiserin Augusta Hospital in Berlin. His widow can still be verified as the owner of a tapestry shop in Warendorf in 1888, as can his daughters Charlotte, born in 1873 and Käthe, born in 1875.

Works

  • The Diocesan Synod of October 8, 9 and 10, 1867: to illuminate the church regiment in the Diocese of Paderborn under the bishop Dr. Conrad Martin , EC Brunn's Verlag, Münster 1866 ( digitized edition )
  • The Christian burial. A contribution to the reform of the funeral system, dedicated to the representatives of the German people , Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg 1874
  • The social position of the Jews , R. Skrzeczek, Löbau 1876 (3rd edition, Verlag der Buchdruckerei der Volks-Zeitung, Berlin 1881, with a foreword by Adolph Phillips ; reprint of the first edition by the Union of Austrian Jews, Vienna 1932, with a Preliminary remark by Chajim Bloch ) ( digitized edition )
  • The royal Prussian public prosecutor's office and free speech , Löbau, undated (1876) ( digitized edition )
  • The right of the German tavern and the Schanknovelle , R. Skrzeczek, Löbau 1878
  • The lack of character in Germany , R. Skrzeczek, Löbau 1878
  • Away with the Prussian school compulsory! , R. Skrzeczek, Löbau 1880

Under the pseudonym "Nicolaus Planenberg":

  • The dark side of the Prussian judge , R. Skrzeczek, Löbau 1877 (until 1878 four editions, digitized edition )
  • The libelous majesty and the Prussian justice , R. Skrzeczek, Löbau 1878
  • The civil court reform and the restriction of legal requirements, R. Skrzeczek, Berlin 1907 (published posthumously under the name "Nicolaus Planenberg Redivivus ")

Under the pseudonym "J. Perinhart "(attributed):

  • The German Jews and Mr. W. Marr , printed and published by Richard Skrzeczek, Löbau 1879 ( digitized edition )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilfried Reininghaus (Ed.): The Revolution 1848/49 in Westphalia and Lippe , Münster 1999, p. 189
  2. ^ First in the Allgemeine Kirchen-Zeitung of August 3, mostly quoted from the Göttinger Zeitung of August 5, 1870
  3. ↑ Olaf Blaschke: Catholicism and anti-Semitism in the German Empire , Göttingen 1997, p. 166
  4. ↑ Ibid., P. 96f
  5. ↑ Uwe Wilhelm: The German Empire and its Justice , Berlin 2010, p. 207; 214f
  6. ↑ Israelitische Wochenschrift for the religious and social interests of Judaism , 1879, p. 170, cf. P. 255
personal data
SURNAME Kolkmann, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolkmann, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Loss
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1880
Place of death Berlin