Krämer, Michael

Catholic clergyman

born: 28.08.1762 in Bingen

Died: 30.06.1822 in Wiesbaden

After years as a chaplain in Hemsbach on the Bergstrasse, Krämer became parish administrator in Neudorf (now Martinsthal) in the Rheingau in 1798.

Count Philipp Wilderich von Walderdorff presented him as the first parish priest of Wiesbaden on 09.07.1801. He took up this office on 24.07.1801. The new parish of Wiesbaden was assigned to the district chapter of Eltville. It was not assigned to a diocese. Initially, Pastor Krämer received his instructions from Mainz, later from Regensburg. From 1827, the parish belonged to the newly founded diocese of Limburg. Krämer retired in 1818 for health reasons and took over an early benefice in Eltville, which had already been awarded to him previously.

His work in Wiesbaden was determined by sovereign regulations, which on the one hand were benevolent, but on the other were perceived as restrictive and restrictive. On the occasion of his death, his successor noted in the Wiesbaden church register that Krämer had rendered many services to the Catholic parish and had always worked to promote the Catholic church in Wiesbaden.