Alfred Läpple

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Alfred Läpple (born June 19, 1915 in Tutzing ; † July 21, 2013 in Gilching ) was a German Catholic religious educator .

Life

Alfred Läpple, son of a Protestant father and a Catholic mother, experienced his childhood in Partenkirchen . After the early death of his father, he attended the Catholic boarding school of the Barmherzigen Brüder in Algasing, east of Munich. After graduating from high school in Freising in 1936, he studied philosophy , education , theology and art history in the episcopal cities of Freising , Würzburg , Münster and Munich . In 1938, when he was called up for the Reich Labor Service in Western Pomerania, he had to drop out of his studies. He was called up to serve in the Air Force in 1939 , was shot down twice as a gunner over Russia and was eventually taken prisoner by the Americans .

On his return he entered the Freising seminary and was ordained a priest by Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber on June 29, 1947 in Freising Cathedral ; The ceremony at his home prime on July 6, 1947 in Partenkirchen was the young philosophy student Joseph Ratzinger .

In 1948 he began his doctoral studies with Theodor Steinbüchel at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he wrote his dissertation The Individual in the Church in 1952 . Characteristics of a theology of the individual after John Henry Cardinal Newman received his doctorate. Joseph Ratzinger, his student in the seminary, read the theses of the dissertation, which were written in Latin, and learned about Newman's theological meaning through Läpple. From that time on there had been a lifelong friendship between the two theologians.

From 1948 to 1952 he was a lecturer in practical theology of the sacraments at the Freising seminary. In 1952 he switched to the Max Planck Gymnasium in Munich as a religion teacher ; Joseph Ratzinger succeeded him as a lecturer in practical sacramental theology at the Freising Seminary. In 1970 he was offered a position at the University of Education in Landau (Palatinate) . In November 1972 he was appointed professor of catechesis and religious education at the theological faculty of the Paris-Lodron University in Salzburg ; he was their dean from 1978 to 1980. In 1981 Läpple retired.

Act

Alfred Läpple is a co-founder of the magazine Religionsunterricht an Höhereschulen (Patmos, Düsseldorf) and was editor of this magazine for 18 years. The numerous publications of his academic work, translated into more than eight languages, include not only many specialist and textbooks, but also comprehensive academic treatises on the subject of church history, exegesis and biblical catechesis. In addition, he wrote numerous guides for Catholic Christians as well as on Christian customs .

Läpple also deals with contemporary history topics. After a book about Adolf Hitler, he also published a biography about Paula Hitler , Hitler's sister. On the occasion of the publication of the book, he also gave an interview to the National-Zeitung and explained how the contractual relationship with publisher Gert Sudholt came about. After twenty years of research on the subject, Läpple said, it was Sudholt who was able to hand him documents for the first time. In the June 2005 edition of the “German History” series, published by Sudholt, he is listed in the imprint as a member of this edition. In March 2005, Läpple gave an interview to the right-wing extremist weekly newspaper from DVU boss Gerhard Frey . In 2004 he also had the opportunity to advertise his “psychogram” about Adolf Hitler in an article in the Austrian magazine Die Aula .

Alfred Läpple has contributed to more than 150 books as an author or editor.

honors and awards

Fonts

  • Church history in documents . Collection of church history sources for schools and studies, Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1958.
  • From exegesis to catechesis , 4 vols., Don-Bosco-Verlag, Munich 1975/77,
  • (Ed.): The Qumran Scrolls . Translation and commentary. With previously unpublished texts. Pattloch-Verlag, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-629-00817-8 .
  • The wonders of Lourdes . Pattloch Verlag, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-629-00645-0 .
  • Small encyclopedia of Christian customs , Pattloch-Verlag, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-629-00679-5 .
  • Adolf Hitler. Psychogram of a Catholic Childhood . Christiana-Verlag, Stein am Rhein 2001, ISBN 3-717-11094-2 .
  • Paula Hitler. The unknown sister . Biography, Druffel & Vowinckel, Stegen am Ammersee 2003, ISBN 978-3-8061-1152-1 .
  • Benedict XVI. and its roots. What shaped his life and his faith . Sankt Ulrich Verlag, Augsburg 2006, ISBN 3-936484-79-1 .
  • The secret scriptures on the Bible . Bassermann-Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-8094-2091-3
  • The core truths of belief . A short catechism for today's Christian, Don Bosco Verlag, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-7698-0190-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Just: "Like an anchor in the future" , order magazine Misericordia, issue 3/08
  2. ↑ Barbara Just: "Alfred Läpple dead - Benedict XVI. was once his acolyte ” , KNA / Kath.net, July 22, 2013
  3. ^ "Paula Hitler - the example of Napoleon's mother helped her", National-Zeitung 45/03, October 31, 2003
  4. ↑ German History, No. 77, 2005
  5. ↑ Is the Pope “immoral”? ( Memento of November 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), National-Zeitung, 2005
  6. ↑ “Psychogram of a Catholic Childhood. Memories and insights of a contemporary witness ”, Die Aula, 10/2004, p. 34f
  7. ↑ Barbara Just: The Bavarian theologian Alfred Läpple died at the age of 98 , KNA from July 23, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Läpple, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious educator, professor for religious education
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Tutzing
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2013
Place of death Gilching