Liborius Gerstenberger

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liborius Gerstenberger in the Handbook of the Members of the Bavarian State Parliament, 1900

Liborius Gerstenberger (born April 19, 1864 in Rödelsee , † April 5, 1925 in Berlin ) was a German clergyman and politician ( Center , Bavarian People's Party ). Gerstenberger was, among other things, papal secret chamberlain and member of the German Reichstag.

Live and act

Spiritual career

Liborius Gerstenberger attended high school in Schweinfurt . He then studied Catholic theology at the University of Würzburg . In 1883 and 1884 he was a member of the 9th Bavarian Infantry Regiment in Würzburg . After he was ordained a priest in the cathedral of this city in 1887, Gerstenberger worked as a chaplain in various places in the Spessart until 1892 . From 1892 to 1903 he officiated as pastor in Laufach in the Spessart. From 1896 to 1908 he also worked as secretary of the Christian Farmers' Association for Lower Franconia. In addition, from 1895 he was editor of the newspaper Der Fränkische Bauer ; since 1903 chief editor and managing director of the Franconian Volksblatt and the corporate printing company in Würzburg. In 1905 he founded the "Schweinfurter Volksblatt". In addition, Gerstenberger acted as editor of the farmers' association for Lower Franconia and as district school inspector.

Political activity

From 1895 Liborius Gerstenberger belonged to the Bavarian State Parliament for the Catholic Center Party , in which he was represented without interruption until 1918. Also from 1895 to 1918 he also acted as a member of the center for the constituency of Aschaffenburg in the German Reichstag in Berlin. After the First World War, he joined the newly founded Bavarian People's Party , for which he sat in the Weimar National Assembly in 1919 and as a member of constituency 26 (Franconia) in the Reichstag from 1920 to 1925 . Gerstenberger summarized his political credo as an example on June 25, 1922: “May all parties recognize that they are not an end in themselves, but only a means to serve the people in all their professions, classes and classes , only means to preserve and save the unified German fatherland common to all of us. "

Work as a travel writer

In addition to his political activities, Gerstenberger also made a name for himself through a series of travel reports. In these he described his impressions of countries as diverse as Iceland , the United States of America and Norway . His travelogues, which were all written between the turn of the century and the First World War, prove to be extremely astute in their insight into the existing conditions and future developments: Gerstenberger recognized as the United States during a visit to New York in 1904 States of America in Europe were still often viewed as “some” secondary country overseas - the imminent world significance of the “remote” country (“Did Greek art and science the old world, Roman military power has conquered the Germanic peoples, American money power affect the whole world more visibly than the two aforementioned. ”) as well as the effectiveness of the uniform American type construction (“ The practical American makes only a few types in his factories and these in large quantities ”).

estate

The estate of Gerstenberger, who also had the title of Papal secret chamberlain and was an honorary citizen of Laufach, was kept in the Central State Archives in Potsdam at the end of the 1970s .

Fonts

  • From the Steinberg to the Felsengebirge. A trip to the New World in the year of the World Exhibition of Saint-Louis 1904 , Würzburg 1905.
  • Around half of Europe in 14 days , 1912.
  • Across Iceland to Spitzbergen , 1913.

literature

Web links

Commons : Liborius Gerstenberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1085-1088.
  2. ↑ Book excerpt with Gerstenberger quote, from: Heiko Bollmeyer: The stony path to democracy. Campus, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38445-0 , p. 396 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ↑ Thomas Trumpp, Jens Flemming: Archives for the Economic and Social History of the Weimar Republic , 1979, p. 144.
personal data
SURNAME Gerstenberger, Liborius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and politician (Center, Bavarian People's Party), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Rödelsee
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1925
Place of death Berlin