Anton Hubert Fischer
Anthony Hubert Cardinal Fischer ( * May 30, 1840 in Jülich, † 30 July 1912 in Bad Neuenahr ) was from 1902 to 1912 Archbishop of Cologne.
Life
Anton Fischer was the son of the elementary school teacher Wilhelm Josef Fischer and the brother of the Jülich publisher Joseph Fischer. He first attended the church school of his native city, and from 1853 to 1857, the Friedrich- Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne. He then studied Catholic theology at the University of Münster and then at the University of Bonn. In Bonn he joined in 1860 in the scientific Catholic Student Association Unitas Salia one. After the practical training in Cologne seminary, he was ordained there on September 2, 1863 priests. Since 1864 worked as a teacher of religion in Essen, where he also convent of the Augustinian choir Commissioner women BMV was, he received his doctorate in 1886 in Tübingen Dr. theol. After his 1888 application submitted for a professorship in Bonn was unsuccessful, Archbishop Philip Krementz appointed him in the same year to the canon in Cologne.
Just one year later, on February 14, 1889, Fischer was appointed Titular Bishop of Iuliopolis and Auxiliary Bishop of Cologne. His episcopal ordination he received on May 1 of that year by Philipp Krementz.
After he was still elevated to dean in 1895, chose the cathedral chapter, the auxiliary bishop on 6 November 1902, 13 out of 15 votes Archbishop of Cologne, to which he was appointed on 26 November 1902. As bishop candidate he had already confessed in 1889 in Münster, 1891 in Paderborn and 1899 in Osnabrueck and Cologne on the lists of the respective cathedral chapter, but it was canceled by the Prussian government again and again. Pope Leo XIII. took him on 23 June 1903 as cardinal priest with the titular church of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo to the College of Cardinals.
The conservative Archbishop made the first steps of his predecessor in the priest education reversed and returned to the rigorous training line of Cardinal Krementz. In this context, it came also to a public bust-up with the Bonn church historian Heinrich Schrörs, which could only be resolved through the intervention of the Ministry of Education, which rejected the archbishop in his place. Convincing fishermen operated in union dispute, where he campaigned for interdenominational unions.
Fischer called the Cologne Rabbi Abraham Frank on to report him anti-Jewish statements within the clergy of the Archdiocese of Cologne, he will not have it, and would then proceed against it. According to Frank that was actually done well on two occasions so.
The person suffering from diabetes Fischer died on 30 July 1912 in Bad Neuenahr, where he stayed for a cure. His remains were transferred to Cologne and was buried there in the episcopal crypt of the Cologne Cathedral.
Cardinal Anthony Fischer was a friend of Bishop Emil August Allgeyer, Vicar Apostolic of Zanzibar in German East Africa. He was consecrated bishop also on 25 April 1897 Spiritan Mission House Knechtsteden Him. After the consecration of the Apostolic Vicar announced that his first newly established mission station he would call the consecrator gratitude " fishing town ", which he actually exported. She lay in German East Africa, in the district of Rombo, Kilimanjaro.