Joseph Schelbert

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Joseph Schelbert (born August 30, 1834 in Sigishofen ; † March 1, 1887 in Maria Rain ) was a Catholic clergyman and a member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Schelbert was the offspring of a family from the Muotathal near Schwyz . His father Franz Joseph Schelbert built the first Swiss cheese dairy in Immenstadt in the Allgäu in 1817. After the death of his father, he came to the Upper Swabian Aulendorf as a shepherd boy at the age of ten . He graduated from Latin school and grammar school in Kempten (Allgäu) in 1858 . He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Munich from 1858 to 1862. On July 26, 1862, he was ordained a priest in the Georgianum in Munich. Then he was parish vicar or chaplain in Stein near Immenstadt, Aschering and Pöcking on Lake Starnberg, Altusried near Kempten, chaplain beneficiary in Fischen , chaplain in Schöllang near Oberstdorf , parish curate in Lengenwang and finally in 1880 pastor and farmer in Maria Rain. He was also involved in several associations and in publications for the rural population.

From 1884 to 1887 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the Schwaben 6 constituency ( Immenstadt , Sonthofen , Kempten , Lindau ) and the German Center Party .

literature

  • Aegidius Kolb / Ewald Kohler (eds.): The rural people of the Allgäu in their doings and activities by Joseph Schelbert (1834-1887). Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten ISBN 3-88006-088-6

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 217.

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personal data
SURNAME Schelbert, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic clergyman and politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Sigishofen
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1887
Place of death Maria Rain