Alois Brem

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Alois Brem (2001)

Alois Brem (born March 15, 1930 in Nuremberg ; † March 15, 2016 in Erding ) was a German Catholic clergyman who was pastor in St. Quirin (Aubing) from 1964 to 2001 .

Life

Alois Brem was born in 1930 in the Theresienkrankenhaus in Nuremberg as the first child of the married couple Wolfgang and Emilie Brem. Since both parents were employed, he came to live with his mother's parents at the age of five, who also lived in Nuremberg.

In 1933 he went to the kindergarten of the St. Annaheimes of the Niederbronn Sisters and from 1936 he attended the Martin Luther elementary school. (At that time Nuremberg was a predominantly Protestant city: 75% Protestants, 22% Catholics). In 1938/39 he became an altar boy in the Franciscan parish of St. Ludwig in Nuremberg-Gibitzenhof. On April 16, 1939, he celebrated first communion in St. Ludwig. 14 days later he moved to Munich- Waldperlach with his grandparents . He was in the 4th grade of the elementary school in Neubiberg and became an altar boy and prayer leader in the parish Rosary Queen in Neubiberg. Albert Sickinger was parish curate there, a pastor who thought far ahead for the time.

After the 6th grade, Brem took the entrance examination in the New Gymnasium Bamberg in September 1942 and stayed there until the Abitur in 1951. From 1942 until the end of the war he lived with a widow on Michelsberg with several classmates , and from 1946 to 1951 in the Franziskanerseminar Antonianum on Jakobsberg.

His home pastor registered him in the fall of 1951 to study philosophy and theology for the Munich seminary . From 1951 to 1957 he studied Catholic theology at the Philosophical-Theological University of Freising . One of his teachers was the young dogmatics lecturer Josef Ratzinger , who impressed him with his open-mindedness.

Brem received the minor ordination in 1954 and became a subdeacon and deacon in December 1956 . At Peter and Paul in 1957 was ordained a priest by Cardinal Wendel in Freising Cathedral . On July 7, 1957, he celebrated in the parish church in Neubiberg his first Mass .

As a chaplain in the parish of Wartenberg (Upper Bavaria) he was the dean's youth pastor. In December 1959 he was transferred to the parish of Namen Jesu in Munich-Neufriedenheim. Here he took on tasks at the World Eucharistic Congress in Munich in 1960, was appointed youth pastor in the Munich-Southwest district and in 1961 as diocesan youth pastor for women’s youth.

In 1964 Brem was appointed pastor to Aubing . There he led the parish of St. Quirin for 37 years.

On September 1, 2001, he moved to Zorneding as a retired priest in the parish of St. Martin .

From 2002 the well-founded wine connoisseur was also a member of the Palatinate Wine Brotherhood .

Brem died on March 15, 2016 on his 86th birthday. He was buried on March 19, 2016 in the priest's grave at the parish church of St. Quirin (Aubing) .

Act

In September 1964, at the age of 34, he was installed as pastor of the St. Quirin parish in Munich- Aubing . For the time being he took over the office of a deanery youth pastor for the deaneries Pasing and Aubing. The 37 years from 1964 to 2001 as pastor of St. Quirin became his real life work. During his time as pastor of Aubing, the establishment of the rectory, kindergarten and parish center in 1965/66, the restoration and conversion of the old parish church, the formation of the parish council and its committees in the post-conciliar period, the establishment of the Amnesty - and Pax-Christi groups, the restructuring of first communion and confirmation preparation in the parish, the formation of various types of community to build a lively community, such as youth and senior work, celebration of the various festivals, but above all the trips to Rome, Lourdes, Santiago di Compostela and from 1984 to 2000 twelve times to the Holy Land.

Cardinal Döpfner appointed him in 1969 as mission officer of the diocese. For 31 years up to the year 2000 he looked after women and men who were active in the mission areas. In 1970 he was appointed a member of the Würzburg Synod by Cardinal Döpfner .

In 1977 ZDF broadcast its first television services live from St. Quirin. In 1980 the 500th anniversary of the consecration of the parish church came and in 1997 the church tower received three new bells on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the “Aubinger church tower”. All events can be read in the writings in the archives of the parish of St. Quirin, Aubing.

Brem was particularly concerned with ecumenism. There was not only cooperation with the Protestant Advent Church in the social field and in the preparation of the Children's Bible Week, but also two ecumenical services every year, alternating in St. Quirin and in the Advent Church, where the guest preached. The three ecumenical pilgrimages to the Holy Land were a highlight of the ecumenical movement.

His special talent for taking up the concerns of the time and the Church is reflected in 100 sermon booklets.

Honors

Publications

  • with Klaus Bichlmayer, Gerd Dehm, Parish Church Foundation St. Quirin (ed.): Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the consecration of the parish church of St. Quirin, Aubing: 1480–1980; 500 years of the Aubinger Kirchweih , Munich, St. Quirin Parish Church Foundation, 1980.
  • with Parish Church Foundation St. Quirin (ed.), ways of a community, Aubing and St. Quirin , St. Ottilien, EOS, 1982.
  • The earth is filled with your goodness. Words of the Bible - Words for Life (= Herder Library, Volume 1695), Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna, Herder-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1990, ISBN 3-451-08695-6 .
  • with Wolfgang Beinert : Our concern is man: our faith is life; Jesus' Gospel among us , Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder, 1993, ISBN 3-451-23035-6 .
  • with Parish Church Foundation St. Quirin (ed.), 700 years of Aubingen church tower, consecration of bells: Festschrift on the occasion of the consecration of the three new bells of St. Quirin on October 5, 1997 by Abbot Odilo Lechner of St. Bonifaz in Munich , Munich-Aubing, parish church foundation St. Quirin, 1997.
  • 100 sermon books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President
  2. ↑ Prayer - a potential for outcry. Diary 2013 / II available online
personal data
SURNAME Brem, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH 15th March 2016
Place of death Erding