Martin Stricker

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Martin Stricker (* around 1577 in Lübeck ; † February 14, 1649 in Hamburg ) was a German priest.

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Stricker's ancestors are unknown. From July 15, 1597 he studied philosophy at the papal seminary in Braunsberg . He had previously entered the Congregation for Mary, for which he worked as a consultor from 1603 to 1604. In 1604 he briefly visited the Jesuit novitiate, which he had to leave for health reasons. He then went to the Roman Collegium Germanicum , where he studied theology.

After completing his studies, Stricker returned to Germany. The papal nuncio in Cologne, Antonio Albergati , appointed him his substitute for the Nordic mission. Stricker then lived as a spiritual in the Oldenkloster of the Benedictine nuns in Buxtehude . He was supposed to examine the conditions in the north of Germany and the Catholics there, give them spiritual help and, if possible, enable them to practice their religion freely.

In 1612 Stricker went to the Church of the Holy Cross in Hildesheim as a canon . He visited the Catholics expelled from Altona in the same year for pastoral care. He campaigned for the public practice of the Catholic religion in Altona and Hamburg, which was possible again from 1622.

In 1623 the Jesuits had to leave Hamburg. Stricker then continued to work there, but in 1624 assigned the task to a missionary intended for Hamburg. Then he moved to Magdeburg . In 1627 he became apostolic missionary for the dioceses of Bremen and Lübeck and received the necessary powers. His residence obligation in Hildesheim was repeatedly suspended.

Stricker was very committed to the preservation and spread of the Catholic faith in the dioceses of Magdeburg and Halberstadt. Wallenstein offered him the diocese of Schwerin in 1629, which Stricker did not take over. In 1635 he stayed in Vienna, where Emperor Ferdinand II gave him the power to ask the Hamburg Senate to allow the Catholics living there to practice their religion freely, which they were entitled to under the Peace of Prague .

Stricker traveled tirelessly throughout Lower Saxony and Denmark. In 1640 he first visited the mission in Friedrichstadt . In 1645 he traveled with an imperial proxy to Copenhagen, where his powers were extended to Denmark. During the Thirty Years War he did not stop his efforts to preserve the few remnants of Catholicism. Swedish soldiers attacked him on a trip from Bremen to Hamburg in 1646 and robbed him completely. Then Stricker lived in Magdeburg, later in Lübeck. He traveled repeatedly to Hamburg, where the Jesuit Heinrich Schacht worked.

Stricker was considered one of the best missionaries of the time. He had such extensive powers that they almost came close to an apostolic vicar . By 1626 at the latest, he had a doctorate in theology and was a Knight of the Holy Sepulcher. He was buried in the Oldenkloster in Buxtehude.

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SURNAME Stricker, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German priest
DATE OF BIRTH around 1577
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1649
Place of death Hamburg