Alban Schachleiter

Alban ( Alban ) chess ladder OSB ( born January 20, 1861 in Mainz when Jacob chess ladder, † June 20, 1937 in filing Bach) was a German Benedictine abbot and supporters of National Socialism.

Life

1886 chess ladder was ordained a priest and entered 1881 in the Benedictine Abbey of Emmaus in Prague, whose abbot, he was elected in 1908. In 1920 he fled, after harassment by the Czech government agency, from Czechoslovakia and became head of the Schola Gregoriana of Catholic Church Music in Munich.

Already in 1923 he met at the home of historian Karl Alexander von Müller Adolf Hitler. The church leadership took chess conductor militant nationalist attitude and his commitment to National Socialism from 1926 to refer to a ban on public political utterances and the transfer, a monastic house. Both he ignored. When he finally greeted by February 1, 1933 Hitler came to power in the People's Observer, he was suspended in March 1933 and excluded from all diocesan Ehrenämten. The NSDAP supported him then with a monthly pension; Hitler himself visited him on 13 May 1933. According chess conductor apparent subjugation of the Vatican lifted the suspension in September 1933. Nevertheless, he was 1934 and 1935 Guest of honor at the Nuremberg party rallies - despite Roman protests against his political opinion.

After his death, honored him with a state NSDAP on the forest cemetery in Munich, where chess conductor is buried. His grave was in 1987 - after a controversy - leveled.