Albert Ohlmeyer

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Albert Ohlmeyer OSB (born October 31, 1905 in Münster as Heribert Theodor Ohlmeyer ; † December 5, 1998 ) was a German Benedictine and abbot of the Neuburg Abbey near Heidelberg .

Life

Heribert Ohlmeyer, eldest of two sons of the post office clerk Heinrich Ohlmeyer and his wife Anna born. Golze, graduated from high school in 1924 at the Catholic high school Paulinum in Münster , the oldest high school in North Rhine-Westphalia and one of the oldest schools in the German-speaking area . His brother Paul Ohlmeyer (1908–1977) was Professor of Physiological Chemistry at the University of Tübingen and Director of the Leibniz College.

1924 first began to study Catholic theology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , but resigned shortly after the religious order of the Benedictines in the Abbey Gerleve at. He took the religious name Albert and made his profession on December 27, 1925 . He studied philosophy at the Philosophical School in Gerleve and theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo in Rome. On July 25, 1930, he was ordained a priest by Bishop Johannes Poggenburg in Gerleve Abbey . On February 19, 1932 he was promoted to Dr. theol. PhD . He was cellerar of the monastery, from 1938 subprior.

In 1941 the congregation was expelled from the abbey by the National Socialists as part of the “ monastery tower ” when they were banned from living in the provinces of Rhineland and Westphalia . He was parish vicar in Oesede and until the end of the war at Gut Waldhof near Voxtrup near Osnabrück . In March / April 1942 he was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo . He was only able to return to Gerleve in 1948 and took over the office of cellarer again. Ohlmeyer was appointed prior of the abbey on December 29, 1948 by Abbot Pius Buddenborg . Shortly thereafter, the convent election as abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Neuburg in Heidelberg, succeeding Adalbert von Neipperg . The abbot's benediction by Bishop Wendelin Rauch took place on January 15, 1949. He dedicated himself in particular to the modernization and expansion of the abbey building. At times he held the office of provisional abbot president and was involved as a retreat master and preacher, including on the radio. On January 1, 1977, he resigned from office.

In 1965 he was made an honorary citizen of Lorsch because of his commitment to the last still existing subsidiary in Neuburg of the Reichsabbey of Lorsch . In 1989 he received the Friedrich Behn Prize for services to the historical research of the Lorsch Monastery. Albert Ohlmeyer was an honorary member of the Scientific Catholic Student Association Unitas Ruperto Carola zu Heidelberg in the UV .

In 1956 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested in the Papal Lay Order in the Neuburg Abbey Church on April 29, 1956 by Franz zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck , governor of the German Lieutenancy . Albert Ohlmeyer was a major officer of the order and prior of the south-west German province for over thirty years.

Fonts

  • The Creation of the World , Biblical Work Letters 1937
  • The first person as God's image , Biblical letters 1937
  • The first person as God's image , Schöningh, Paderborn 1937
  • Noe and the Flood , Bible Study Letters 1937
  • Holy Bride Journey , Biblical Letters 1938
  • Christ King Son of God (Ps. 2) , Biblical letters 1938
  • The birth of our Lord Jesus Christ , Badenia Verlag, Karlsruhe 1950
  • Seven gifted worries - The Lord's Prayer as a word in the day , Herder, Freiburg 1957
  • Moses in the splendor of the Redeemer , Herder, Freiburg 1957
  • Experienced Bible: Diary of a pilgrim in Jerusalem , Fredebeul & Koenen Verlag, Essen 1962
  • Elias - Prince of the Prophets , Herder, Freiburg 1962
  • Wealth of Psalms (Volume 2). Developed by saints of all Christian Times , Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1965
  • Strength in weakness - Gregor der Grosse , Benziger Verlag, Zurich 1982
  • Series Classics of Meditation Strength in Weakness. Meditations , Benziger Verlag, Zurich 1982
  • with Gundolf Keil : 'Lorsch Pharmacopoeia'. In: Author's Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Volume 11, 2004, Col. 926-930.
  • with Gundolf Keil (ed.): The Lorsch Pharmacopoeia. (Manuscript Msc. Med. 1 of the Bamberg State Library); Volume 2: Translation by Ulrich Stoll and Gundolf Keil with the assistance of former abbot Albert Ohlmeyer. Scientific publishing company, Stuttgart 1989
  • Put by the hand of the Lord - Part 1: the time before 1905-1949 - The memorial sheets of my life , Badenia Verlag, Karlsruhe 1990
  • Servant in the growth of Christ's kingdom. Abbot Albert Ohlmeyer. Memorial sheets of my life. 2nd episode. From the abbot's years 1949–1990 , Badenia Verlag, Karlsruhe 1991

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry: Albert Ohlmeyer , Biographia Benedictina (Benedictine Biography), version from November 20, 2018, accessed on March 8, 2019
  2. ↑ Honorary Citizen: Albert Ohlmeyer ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Lorsch , accessed on May 13, 2013
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (Ed.): Unitas Handbuch I, 1995, p. 75.

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predecessor Office successor
Adalbert from Neipperg OSB Abbot of Neuburg
1948–1977 		Maurus Berve
personal data
SURNAME Ohlmeyer, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ohlmeyer, Heribert Theodor (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Benedictine and abbot of Neuburg Abbey near Heidelberg
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1998