Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager

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Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager

Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager (born October 4, 1949 in Altenahr ) is a German lawyer . He is Honorary and Devotion Grand Cross Bailli in Obedienz and from 1989 to 2014 was Grand Hospitalier of the Sovereign Order of Malta . He has been the Order's Grand Chancellor since 2014 .

family

Von Boeselager is one of four children of Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager and Rosa Maria, née. Countess von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg. He is married to Praxedis, b. Freiin von und zu Guttenberg, a sister of Enoch Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg . He is the father of five children.

The banker Georg Freiherr von Boeselager is his younger brother.

Life

After graduating from the Jesuit Aloisius College in Bad Godesberg , von Boeselager did his military service from 1968 to 1970 and left the reserve as a lieutenant . Then he studied from 1970 to 1974 law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn , the University of Geneva and the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg . Since 1970 he has been a member of the Corps Palatia Bonn . From 1976 to 1990 he worked as a lawyer and in 1987 took over his father's farm and forestry business . He is the owner of Kreuzberg Castle on the Ahr. As a local forest owner , he succeeds his father as the chairman of the forestry association in his home district of Ahrweiler .

Order of Malta

Von Boeselager was accepted into the Order of Malta in 1976 and became a knight of obedience in 1985 . From 1982 to 2015 he was Chancellor of the German Association of the Order. From January 1, 1982 to March 31, 1985 he was managing director and from January 14, 1985 to April 30, 1990 honorary director of the Malteser Aid Service in the Archdiocese of Cologne . In addition to his work in the presidium of the Malteser Hilfsdienst eV, he has been a member of the Order's government in Rome since 1989 , initially as a major hospitalier and since 2014 as the grand chancellor (head of the government / prime minister). After his election in 1989 he was re-elected for five years by the General Chapter in 1994, 1999, 2004 and on June 8, 2009. In addition, Albrecht von Boeselager has been a member of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care in Health Services since 1990 and a member of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum" since 1994 .

On May 31, 2014, he was elected Grand Chancellor of the Order by the General Chapter in Rome .

At the turn of the year 2016/2017 Albrecht von Boeselager was at the center of a constitutional crisis of the Order of Malta, which was triggered by his legally controversial dismissal by the incumbent Grand Master Matthew Festing .

Festing and the Cardinal Patron of the Order of Malta , Raymond Leo Burke , demanded Boeselager's resignation in December 2016, which the latter refused, whereupon Festing declared him deposed and temporarily excluded from the Order of Malta; one reason was the distribution of condoms by Maltese in Myanmar . After von Boeselager appealed to the Pope against his dismissal, which he considered unlawful and invalid , there was a partially public dispute between the Order's leadership and the Vatican about the admissibility of the five-person Vatican investigative commission, which informed the Pope about the background should. On January 25, 2017, the Vatican announced that Grand Master Festing had submitted his resignation at an audience with Pope Francis. Albrecht von Boeselager had meanwhile sued a religious order against his dismissal. In its meeting on January 28, 2017, the Sovereign Council of the Order of Malta then accepted the resignation of the Grand Master and the rehabilitation of Boeselagers, ordered by the Pope, who had to be reinstated in his previous offices and took part in the deliberations of the Council. The leadership of the German Association of the Order of Malta praised the role of the Vatican in the dispute over the Order of Malta. The Chancellor of the German branch, Stephan Freiherr Spies von Büllesheim , thanked the Pope for “helping the Order so quickly and safely in this constitutional crisis”.

The General Chapter, which met in Rome, confirmed him as Grand Chancellor for another five years in 2019.

honors and awards

See also

Web links

Commons : Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arne Storn: Georg von Boeselager: The banker of the Pope . In: The time . No. 20/2017 , May 14, 2017 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Burg Kreuzberg: Last inhabited castle in the Ahr valley. Blog post from October 29, 2015, accessed on January 28, 2017.
  3. ↑ Between forest and game. In: General-Anzeiger , October 30, 2013, accessed on January 28, 2017.
  4. ↑ General Chapter 2009
  5. ↑ The General Chapter of the Sovereign Order of Malta convened in Rome, May 31, 2014 ( Memento of August 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Order of Malta: Kulturkampf with Pope Franziskus , Der Tagesspiegel of December 16, 2016, accessed on January 11, 2017
  7. ↑ Knights of Malta row with Vatican over condom program , BBC January 11, 2017, accessed January 11, 2017
  8. ↑ Boeselager continues to see himself as Grand Chancellor of the Order of Malta , Domradio from December 20, 2016, accessed on January 12, 2017
  9. ↑ Vatican commission responds to Order of Malta's refusal to cooperate with investigation , The Tablet, January 11, 2017, accessed January 12, 2017
  10. ↑ Comunicato della Sala Stampa, January 25, 2017 (B0057)
  11. ↑ Jörg Bremer : Power struggle in the Order of Malta. In: FAZ.net , January 25, 2017, accessed on January 26, 2017.
  12. ↑ Conflict in the Order of Malta: Boeselager sued an internal court. In: Vatican Radio , January 13, 2017, accessed on January 28, 2017.
  13. ^ Andrea Tornielli : Malta, Boeselager torna Cancelliere. Accolta la rinuncia di Festing. In: La Stampa , January 28, 2017, accessed on the same day.
  14. ↑ Maltese Chancellor thanks Pope for intervention. In: Die Tagespost , January 27, 2017, accessed on January 28, 2017.
  15. ↑ Boeselager: A large majority is now for reforms. In: kathisch.de , May 21, 2019, accessed on May 2, 2020.
  16. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Boeselager, Albrecht Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Grand Hospitaller of the Order of Malta
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenahr