Thomas Bacher

Thomas Bacher (* December 21, 1863 in Traubing , † November 2, 1945 in Westerham ) was the Haberfeldmeister of the last great Haberfeldtreibens in Miesbach in 1893 and later a functionary of the Bavarian costume maintenance .

Bacher, who had been working as a farmhand in the Miesbach area since he was 12 , was elected Haberfeldmeister by the Habererbund in 1886 at the age of 23. He was arrested in 1896 for the bustle of Miesbach in 1893. Just like him, about 130 other farmers and farmer sons from the Oberland region fared . The previously arrested "Killi-Hausl" ( Balthasar Killi ) had testified against Bacher in prison (in Munich's Baaderstraße) against his illegal Haberereid. Bacher, on the other hand, refused to testify, thereby removing dozens of farmers from legal conviction by a legal court. He was sentenced to 5½ years in prison and released early in 1900 for good conduct. It was largely due to him that the last Haberfeld drives went off without major damage or even bloodshed.

According to his own account, he received a great reception at the Aibling train station after his release. The gratitude of the Haberer and their relatives, who were spared by his secrecy, was certain to him and should "last for a lifetime".

After the waves of arrests brought the Habererbund to its knees, Bacher vowed never to take part in a drive again. To this end, he became increasingly committed to maintaining tradition. In 1905 he joined the Westerhamer Trachtenverein , became its first chairman in the same year and in 1907 introduced the Haberer hat (stopper hat with a white cockle feather) as the traditional hat of the Westerhamers. From 1925 until his death was Bacher first board of the district federation I . He was Bavaria's top traditional costume maker for over 20 years.

In September 1945 he still succeeded in getting the occupying powers to give permission to re-establish traditional costume clubs that had been incorporated into the KDF program in the Third Reich. Two months later, Thomas Bacher died after a short, serious illness in Feldkirchen-Westerham, in the same apartment into which he had moved as a wood servant over 50 years earlier.

To this day, the traditional costume clubs pay the greatest respect to the "Bach father".

literature

• Konrad Adlmaier: The Oberland Haber Federation. Heimatbuchverlag Müller & Königer, Munich 1926.
• Georg Queri : Farmer's eroticism and peasant company in Upper Bavaria. Allitera-Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-86520-059-1 .
• Ferdinand Kopp (Ed.): Traubinger Heimatbuch. Self-published, 1981.
• Alexander Langheiter: Thomas Bacher. In: Miesbach - a cultural guide. Maurus, Miesbach 2006.

Web links

Thomas Bacher is mentioned in the following articles:

• Mangfalltaler traditional costume association
• Interesting facts from Gauverband 1
• General information about the traditional costume movement