Philipp von Berg
Philipp von Berg (born March 12, 1816 in Düsseldorf , † 1866 in Mönchengladbach ) was a German Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Prussian National Assembly and the Prussian House of Representatives .
Life
Youth and years of study
On March 12, 1816 Philipp von Berg was born in Düsseldorf as the son of the Prussian captain Karl Wilhelm von Berg and the née Countess Henriette Philippine Sophie von Bentheim. Philipp von Berg spent his youth in Cologne; after graduating from high school, he studied law, philosophy and history in Bonn and later in Berlin. After being involved in a duel and a subsequent prison sentence, which he served at the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress near Koblenz, von Berg began studying theology in Bonn.
Priest and deputy
In 1843 he was ordained a priest in Cologne. After he first worked as a chaplain in Vilich near Bonn, he was appointed first chaplain at the parish of St. Mary's Assumption in Jülich in 1847 . Here he found his new field of activity in politics. He is said to have given a fiery speech on the Jülich market square and otherwise campaigned for the revolution of 1848 .
On May 8, 1848, he was elected to the Prussian National Assembly, where he stood out with his speeches, which were also echoed in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung published by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx . With the dissolution of the Prussian National Assembly, von Berg also faced persecution from the authorities. In 1850 he was tried for alleged rioting, but the trial ended in an acquittal.
After the trial he was appointed spiritual rector in Bergheim in 1850 and a few years later also vicar at the main parish church of St. Kolumba in Cologne . In 1859 he was re-elected to the Prussian House of Representatives. The already tense relationship with his superiors deteriorated noticeably, so that Archbishop Johannes von Geissel sent him to Gustorf near Grevenbroich as pastor in 1862.
Pastor in Gustorf
In Gustorf he was instrumental in founding the community rifle club of the Gustorf parish, to which he donated 15 Reichstalers as share capital. Right from the start, the new shooting club was in competition with the Catholic Brotherhood of St. Sebastianus , which had existed for several centuries, and which lost more and more support and subsequently had to limit its activities to Gindorf.
In 1864, Philipp von Berg fell ill with a brain disease, from which he died in 1866 in the Alexianer Kloster in Mönchengladbach.
Individual evidence
- ↑ see Schmitz 2004, p. 153
literature
- Ferdinand Frensdorff: Berg, Philipp von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 364 f.
- Friedrich Schmitz: Famous Grevenbroich . In: Festschrift for the shooting festival from September 4th - September 7th, 2004. Published by the Bürgererschützenverein 1849 Grevenbroich e. V. Grevenbroich 2004, pp. 146-161
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berg, Philipp von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Member of the Prussian National Assembly |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1866 |
| Place of death | Mönchengladbach |