Michael Huber (5 July 1841 – 14 March 1911) was a Bavarian Catholic priest and politician of the Centre Party. As priest, he worked as military chaplain, father of confession, parish priest and member of the Cathedral Chapter of Regensburg. As politician, he served one electoral period in the Reichstag and two electoral periods in the of Bavaria.

Life and church career

Huber was born on 5 July 1841 in

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. After graduating from the gymnasium in Amberg, he studied Catholic theology at the

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. He was further educated at the

seminary A seminary, school of theology, theological college, or divinity school is an educational institution for educating students (sometimes called seminarians) in scripture and theology, generally to prepare them for ordination to serve as cle ...

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and was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration in Christianity, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominationa ...

as a

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on 26 June 1864. He worked as a priest in Asenkofen near Neufahrn in Niederbayern and as

military chaplain A military chaplain ministers to military personnel and, in most cases, their families and civilians working for the military. In some cases, they will also work with local civilians within a military area of operations. Although the term ''cha ...

in Amberg and during the 1866

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. Huber also worked as father of

confession A confession is a statement – made by a person or by a group of people – acknowledging some personal fact that the person (or the group) would ostensibly prefer to keep hidden. The term presumes that the speaker is providing information that ...

for nuns, as institutional inspector in Niederviehbach, and from 1871 as parish priest in Rothenstadt. He became a member of the

Cathedral chapter According to both Catholic and Anglican canon law, a cathedral chapter is a college of clerics ( chapter) formed to advise a bishop and, in the case of a vacancy of the episcopal see in some countries, to govern the diocese during the vacancy. In ...

in Regensburg and received the title of (Spiritual Councillor) from the bishop and the title of Domestic Prelate from the pope. He died on 14 March 1911 in Regensburg.

Political career

For the Catholic Centre Party, Huber was a member of the Reichstag from 1874 to 1877. He was elected as representative of the Oberpfalz 5 electoral district (

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) with 80.98% of the vote in the

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. From 1887 to 1899, Huber was a member of the Bavarian , where he served on the committee for finance. In his first electoral period, he represented the electoral district of

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, in the second period that of Stadtamhof.

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* * *{{Cite web , last=ParlamentarierPortal , title=BIORAB Kaiserreich , url=https://www.bioparl.de/datenbanken/biorabkr/biorabkr-db/ , access-date=2023-06-23 , language=de-DE 1841 births 1911 deaths People from Amberg 19th-century German Roman Catholic priests Members of the 2nd Reichstag of the German Empire Centre Party (Germany) politicians Members of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies