Alexander Menningen

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Father Alexander Menningen ISch (born October 20, 1900 in Hillscheid ; † May 19, 1994 in Schoenstatt ) was a German Pallottine and Schoenstatt Father and theologian . He was a loyal companion of Father Kentenich , the founder of the Schoenstatt Movement , and after his death assumed the central inspirational function in the Schoenstatt family.

Life

From the age of 13, Alexander Menningen attended the Pallottine Study Home in Schoenstatt, where he came into contact with Father Kentenich, who was active as a spiritual director at the time, and was a classmate of Josef Engling . He studied theology and was ordained a priest in the Pallottine Community in 1926 . After his ordination he was a lecturer in philosophy in the novitiate of the Pallottines in Olpe , in whose second year the quota of the first year of philosophy studies was taught. From 1928 he worked in Schoenstatt as Father Kentenich's collaborator in the pastoral care of young people and as a spiritual director. During this time he published several writings and mainly dealt with Josef Engling.

During the Second World War he was general secretary of the Rafael Association and active in parish pastoral care. After the war he helped to build up the community of the Marienbrüder founded in 1942 in the Dachau concentration camp .

From 1947 to 1951 he was involved in the development of the Philosophical-Theological College Vallendar and held the professorship for pastoral care and education.

From 1952 he prepared the process of beatification of Josef Engling as vice-postulator , which was completed in 1964 at the diocesan level .

During Kentenich's stay in exile in the United States from 1951 to 1965 as a result of the papal visitation, Menningen was loyal to the founder and also had to leave Schoenstatt. From 1954 to 1965 he was hospital chaplain in Sinzig and Wiesbaden .

After Kentenich's papal rehabilitation in 1965, Menningen returned to Schoenstatt. As a result of the separation of the Schoenstatt Movement from the Pallottines, the Institute of the Schoenstatt Fathers was founded, and he worked with Kentenich to build it up.

After the founder's death on September 15, 1968, he assumed the central inspirational personality in the Schoenstatt family and, as a postulator, prepared its beatification process until 1976.

Fonts

  • Schoenstatt's doctrine of education, depicted in the portrait of Josef Engling . In: Schoenstatt Studies . 2nd issue. Limburg 1936.
  • Hero in the working day . Limburg 1938.
    • New edition: Maria is entirely her own. Josef Engling co-founder of Schoenstatt . Vallendar 1977.
  • Ways to educate people in pastoral care today . In: Heinrich M. Köster (ed.): New creation . Limburg 1948, p. 501, 591 .
  • The consecration of Mary. A Theological Ascetic Study . Limburg 1955.
  • Christian in world existence . Vallendar 1968.

literature

  • Rudolf Ammann, Karl Bausenhart, Josef Maria Klein (ed.): The companion. First memories of P. Dr. Alexander Menningen ISch . With an escort by Michael Joh. Marmann. Vallendar 1994, ISBN 3-87620-173-X .
  • R. Birkenmaier: After the death of the "favorite disciple" . In: Regnum 28 . 1994, p. 97 f .
  • Joachim Schmiedl: Alexander Menningen (1900-1994). His life and work . Patris Verlag, Vallendar 2000, ISBN 3-87620-229-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joachim Schmiedl: Menningen, Alexander . In: Hubertus Brantzen (Ed.): Schoenstatt Lexicon: Facts - Ideas - Life . 2nd unchanged edition. Patris-Verlag, Vallendar 2002, ISBN 3-87620-195-0 , p. 256 f . ( moriah.de [accessed on October 16, 2012]).
personal data
SURNAME Menningen, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Father Menningen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German father and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th October 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hillscheid
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1994
Place of death Schoenstatt (Vallendar)