Adolf Eberle (theologian)

Adolf Eberle (born September 8, 1886 in Pforzen ; † March 6, 1976 in Dillingen adDonau ) was a German moral theologian .

Life

Eberle studied Catholic theology in Munich and Rome and graduated with doctorates in philosophy and theology. From 1912 he worked in pastoral care. In 1913 he came to Dillingen / Danube as prefect. He became a religion teacher at the grammar school, in 1923 associate professor and in 1930 full professor for moral theology at the Philosophical-Theological University in Dillingen , of which he was rector from 1931 to 1947. On November 11, 1933, he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . In 1953 he retired .

Since 1906 Eberle was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Rheno-Franconia Munich.

Honors

• 1955: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1964: Bavarian Order of Merit

Fonts

• The Mariology of St. Cyrillus of Alexandria , Freiburg Theological Studies , Issue 27, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1921
• together with Josef Schneider: The foundations of morality in a philosophical and theological perspective, small general writings on philosophy, theology and history., Theological series;, volume 3. , Meisenbach, Bamberg, 1947
• Psychoanalysis in the service of education, knowledge and work , No. 6. Cassianeum, Donauwörth / Bavaria, 1949
• Is the Dillingen moral professor Christoph Rassler (1654–1723) the founder of equiprobabilism? Herder, Freiburg, 1951

literature

• Wilhelm Kosch: The Catholic Germany: biographical-bibliographical lexicon. Augsburg: Haas & Grabherr, 1933–1938.
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who ?: the German Who's Who. Berlin: Arani, 1955.
• Yearbook of the Association for the History of the Augsburg Diocese 40, 2006, p. 532.