Joseph Weigert

Pastor Joseph Weigert

Mockersdorf parish church

Joseph Weigert (born July 14, 1870 in Kelheim , † September 9, 1946 in Großenpinning ) was a German Roman Catholic pastor , writer and farmer in Mockersdorf .

Live and act

Joseph Weigert was the son of a glazier and later attended the humanistic grammar school in Metten . After graduating from high school with the Benedictines in Metten, Weigert moved to the Regensburg seminary . After completion of studies at the philosophical-theological college he was on 16 June 1895 Regensburg Cathedral for ordained priests .

He then worked as a cooperator in Schwarzach near Nabburg , Lindkirchen in der Hallertau , Burglengenfeld and Tirschenreuth .

From October 1900 to October 1931 he worked as a pastor in the parish of St. Michael (Mockersdorf) , cultivated most of the meadows and fields of the parish plots with three servants and also wrote 13 books during this time.

Ludwig III. (Bavaria) awarded him the King Ludwig Cross in June 1917 for services during the war. In 1925 the communities of Mockersdorf and Plössen granted him honorary citizenship . In 1931 the municipality of Ramlesreuth also granted him honorary citizenship.

From October 29, 1931 to 1939 pastor in Sarching near Donaustauf. In 1939, at the age of almost 70, he retired and spent this until his death in the small Gäubodendorf Grossenpinning in the middle of the Bavarian granary.

Works

• German Volksschwänke of the 16th century (1st edition 1909)
• Along the village - A book on German peasantry (1st edition 1915)
• Faithful to your clod - faithful to your God (1st edition 1920)
• Farmer, it's time! A warning to the farmers (1st edition 1920)
• Popular education in the countryside (1st edition 1922)
• At the Kienspanlicht (1st edition 1922)
• Religious Folklore (1st edition 1924)
• Peasant sermons in drafts (1st edition 1924)
• The people's thoughts and speeches (1st edition 1925)
• Homeland and folk culture (1st edition 1925)
• Fall of Village Culture (1st edition 1929)
• The female youth in the country (1st edition 1931)
• About work and life in the country (1st edition 1931)
• From the village sermon (1st edition 1932)
• The harvest (1st edition 1934)

literature

• Alois J. Weichslgartner: Joseph Weigert - A life for the village . Bayerischer Landwirtschaftsverlag GmbH, Munich 1966.

swell

• Weichslgartner: Joseph Weigert - A life for the village.

Web links

• Literature by and about Joseph Weigert in the catalog of the German National Library