Franz Hoffmeister

Franz Hoffmeister ( born March 22, 1898 in Ramsbeck, † March 27, 1943 in Schmallenberg- Holthausen ) was a Roman Catholic priest and together with Theodor Pröpper the founder of the Sauerland home state and the Festival Balver cave.

Career

Franz Hoffmeister was the son of the carpenter Franz Hoffmeister and Franziska Hoffmeister born bump. He attended elementary school in Ramsbeck and was recorded with 15 years of a high school in Paderborn. 1917, the high school student was called up as a replacement recruit for military service in the replacement battalion of Guards Foot Artillery Regiment in Jiiterbog, for which he took part in the battle in Flanders. 1918 was followed by continued participation in the campaign in the west, on which he suffered various injuries that led to the dismissal from the military service in the same year.

In 1919, Franz Hoffmeister interrupted by the outbreak of war the school back on and founded in February of the same year with some friends the "unification students Sauerland ", its first chairman, he is provisionally. Released in March under his direction, the first issue of the magazine he founded Trutznachtigall. In the same month he receives the maturity for the university studies and is enrolled at the episcopal and philosophical- theological academy Paderborn. He is a member of the Catholic Fraternity "Highland ". At age 23, Franz Hoffmeister threatens to go blind.

In conjunction with the 4th Annual General Meeting of the "Association of students Sauerland " the foundation of the Sauerland home state is decided in Meschede; 2nd - September 4, 1922 held its first major conference in Balve.

1923 Hoffmeister sets the line of " Trutznachtigall " down. In the autumn of 1923 he entered the seminary and was ordained on January 8, 1924 Deacon and on 10 August 1924 the Bishop Heinrich Lanz Haehling Auer priest. Hoffmeister takes over in 1924, the Pfarrvikariestelle Antfeld and in the same year first Chairman of the Sauerland home state, first established its office in Bestwig, but later moved to Antfeld.

The deposited editorship of " Trutznachtigall " takes Hoffmeister again in 1929. The magazine is now called Home Guard ( predecessor of today's monthly magazine Sauerland). It follows the establishment of the Sauerland artists circuit which is connected to the Sauerland Heimatbund.

From August 2 to 4, 1930, the eighth Sauerland home meeting took place in Balve. She stood under the motto " religion and homeland" and has won the 500 - and connected 1000th anniversary of the city Balve. In the same year Franz Hoffmeister was appointed district president of the Catholic Young Men's Clubs for the deanery Bigge. In August, the ninth Sauerland home conference will take place in Eslohe, the last of Hoffmeister's leadership. On it especially the poet Josef Sauerland Pape is thought.

1932 Hoffmeister was given the Vikariestelle in Bochum- Wimmelhausen. From there, he continues to work on the " Home Guard ", the last number appears as number 8 of the vintage 1932 in February 1933. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Hoffmeister shall resign as chairman of the Sauerland home state and shall be appointed in June 1933 to the District Church President of the Catholic Young Men's Association Bochum.

On 26 June 1937, the old Sauerland Heimatbund is deleted with the district court Bigge. With 40 years of Hoffmeister suffered a stroke during a temporary stay in Hamm. On October 9, 1940, entrusting him with the Pfarrvikariestelle in Holthausen at Fredeburg, upper parish churches. Subsequently, his health deteriorated. Franz Hoffmeister died on 27 March 1943 in Holthausen. The funeral takes place in the cemetery of his birthplace.

Honors

• In Bestwig was the Franz Hoffmeister school center and in Ramsbeck and in Olsberg the Franz Hoffmeister street was named after him.
• In 1956 they built the Hoffmeister Pröpper Fountain in Balve and 1996 the Franz Hoffmeister Memorial in Antfeld.

Works

• Sauerland Heimatbund: Journal Trutznachtigall Volume 1 (PDF)