Adalbert Ludwig Balling

Adalbert Ludwig Balling (born March 2, 1933 in Gaurettersheim , Bütthard ) is a German Roman Catholic clergyman, missionary and author.

life and work

From 1946 to 1952 Balling was a boarding school student in Miltenberg and Würzburg ( Kilianeum , there Abitur). In 1952 he entered the order of the Mariannhiller Missionaries (novitiate in Mönchsdeggingen ) and studied philosophy, psychology and theology at the University of Würzburg from 1953 to 1958 . After his ordination he was a missionary in Rhodesia (today: Zimbabwe ) from 1958 to 1965 and worked primarily in the Embakwe mission at Plumtree in the Archdiocese of Bulawayo, which has been supervised by the Marianhill missionaries since 1930 .

From 1965 to 1998 he edited in Reimlingen the missionary magazine "Maria Hill. MMM ”, as well as yearbooks and calendars. In addition, he has so far written six major biographical works and published around 100 volumes of meditations on Bible words, picture meditations, travel diaries, aphorisms, collections of fairy tales, sayings and help in life in a total circulation of around four million.

Works (selection)

• The drummer of God . Franz Pfanner , founder of the order and rebel. Herder, Freiburg 1981.
• Tie your cart to a star . Bernhard Huss (1876–1948), social reformer out of love for the Black Vorw. By Georg Moser Tie your cart to a star. Missionsverlag Mariannhill, Würzburg 1981 (preface by Georg Moser ).
• Leaving a trail of love . Father Engelmar (Hubert) Untimely , Mariannhill missionary “Martyrs of Charity” in the Dachau concentration camp. Missionsverlag Mariannhill, Reimlingen and Würzburg 1984.
• No gods who eat bread, but bridge builders between black and white . Missionsverlag Mariannhill, Würzburg 2001 (about a bishop, two priests, four brothers, two women religious and the missionary doctor Johanna Decker , who were murdered in Rhodesia / Zimbabwe during the civil war unrest).
• Thandabantu - the wandering monk from Triashill . Aegidius Franz Xaver Pfister (1876–1932) and the Zambezi Mission in present-day Zimbabwe. Missionsverlag Mariannhill, Reimlingen 2002, 2005.
• The brown abbot of Mariannhill . Nivard Georg Streicher (1854–1927), architect at the Cape of Good Hope. Trace search. A genius in a monk's habit. Missionsverlag Mariannhill, Würzburg 2003.

Fonts

• Decker, (Jo) Hanna Maria Katharina. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 174-175.

Web links

• Short biography on the homepage of Father Barnabas Stephan CMM