Father Johannes Maria Haw, committed pastor, founder of the religious orders of the Sisters of St. John of Mary Queen and the Missionaries of St. John the Baptist.

Johannes Haw was born on May 26, 1871 in Schweich on the Moselle. The ancestors on the paternal side came from Bekond, where today's "Brunnenhof" still keeps the memory of the former "Gasthof Haw" alive. His mother was born Hoff from Schweich. Johannes, the second of eight children, was not made to be a farmer and winemaker like his parents and many of the Schweicher, but chose to study theology because he felt called by God to priestly from an early age. On March 30, 1895, he was ordained a priest in Trier Cathedral by Bishop Michael Felix Korum.

After a short activity as chaplain in the parish of Liebfrauen in Koblenz, Father Johannes Maria Haw was active as parish vicar in Holz / Saar and then as pastor in Wintersdorf an der Sauer. In Wintersdorf, the parish church he built and now renovated provides visible evidence of his commitment to the parish. Among the miners in Holz, Pastor Haw learned about the misery of families that the dependence on alcohol brought with it. These impressions and experiences determined his further life.