Joseph Probst (local history researcher)

Joseph Probst

Joseph Probst (born  May 30, 1852 in Nesselwang , †  May 16, 1899 in Würzburg ) was a German teacher and local researcher in the city of Germersheim . The standard work on the history of Germersheim, the "History of the City and Fortress of Germersheim " , comes from his pen.

Born as the son of master butcher Martin Probst, he attended high school in Kempten in his childhood and youth , and then studied philology at the University of Munich . After he had been prefect of the Landshut study seminar for a year , he became assistant grammar school teacher at the Hammelburg Progymnasium on December 1, 1879 , to be transferred to the Germersheim Latin School on April 27, 1888 , where he served as a "Study teacher" took up. He gave classes in German , Latin , arithmetic , history , geography and natural history . Just two years later he began to look for information about the history of Germersheim in printed literature, only to decide in 1892 to do archival source work. He completed the work in 1898. As a result, he was promoted to the Progymnasium in Würzburg on July 6, 1898, where he succumbed to an illness on May 16 of the following year. He was buried in the Hammelburg cemetery.

Joseph Probst was the father of the politician Alfons Probst (born March  25, 1886 in Hammelburg ; †  March 23, 1945 ), the husband of the later Bundestag Vice- President Maria Probst (born  July 1, 1902 in Munich ; †  May 1, 1967 ibid). His daughter Euphrosyna succumbed to a diphtheria epidemic in Germersheim at the age of six, his son Franz died on the day of his birth (* † July 12, 1888).

In the Germersheim city council, the question of whether he should be granted honorary citizenship was adjourned without result before he died and the question became irrelevant. The city's main artery, the former B 9 , was named after him.

literature

• Reinhold Klotz: Germersheim - my hometown . Germersheim, 1994. pp. 240ff.