Joachim Haspinger
Joachim Haspinger OFM Cap ( born October 28, 1776 in St. Martin in Gsies in South Tyrol; † January 12, 1858 in Salzburg ) was a Capuchin priest and Tyrolean freedom fighter.
Life
Joachim Haspinger studied in Bolzano and Innsbruck and fought during their studies in 1796, 1797 and 1799-1801 in the Austrian army against the French. In 1802 he entered the Capuchin Order. In 1805 he was ordained a priest and the ministry as a preacher in the convent to Schlanders Venosta.
Here he worked mainly political. Haspinger called for religious reasons for resistance to the conditions imposed by the Bavarian administrative smallpox vaccination. He joined the secret society of the Tyrolean patriot and participated in 1809 in the Tyrolean popular uprising. Haspinger took part in the two battles of May 29 and August 13, where Tyrolean Protect Hofer defeated the French and Bavarian troops on the Bergisel. Of the comrades he gained the nickname " Father Redbeard ".
In the same year Haspinger also prepared the uprising in the country of Salzburg, which was thrown down to 3 November 1809 by French troops. After another revolt of the Tyrolese under Andreas Hofer he had to leave the Tyrol. At first he hid for nine months in Val Venosta on the Tschenglburg, after he fled on October 31, 1810 in Vienna, where he was pastor from 1810 to 1812 in Maria- Loretto Church in Jedlesee.
In 1812 he received the secret mission to prepare a popular uprising. Since 1815 he was a minister in Traun field in the wine district and served as chaplain to St. Lampert at the Holy Mountain until his retirement in 1836. Thereafter he lived in Hietzing in Vienna.
In 1848 he accompanied again as a military chaplain a company Tyrolean Military Police to Italy and settled in 1854 in Salzburg Mirabell Palace, Imperial, where he died in 1858. His body was taken to the Hofkirche in Innsbruck and there buried next to Andreas Hofer.
Recognitions
- In 1898 in Vienna Floridsdorf ( 21st district ) of Haspingerplatz was named after him.
- On the 75th anniversary of his death, a memorial plaque at the parish church Maria Loretto was installed in 1933 Jedlesee in Vienna
Filmography
In the film, Andreas Hofer - The freedom of the eagle by Xaver Schwarzenberger on the book by Felix Mitterer stands next to Andreas Hofer also Joachim Haspinger, played by Franz Xaver Kroetz, at the center. He is depicted therein as bloodthirsty, religious fundamentalist. In Overworked is it a particularly vile and dastardly murder - but historically not used - at a Tyrolean boy who was forcibly conscripted into the Bavarian army. Its in contrast to the end Hofer excepted immersion is drawn as opportunism.