Alois Hartl

Alois Hartl (born September 1, 1845 in Nassenhausen , Grunertshofen parish ; † July 22, 1923 in Teisendorf ) was auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

Life

Auxiliary Bishop Alois Hartl

Alois Hartl was born as the son of the carpenter Joseph Hartl and his wife Katharina Heigl in Nassenhausen, today the municipality of Adelshofen , district of Fürstenfeldbruck . After attending the Latin school in Scheyern and the humanistic grammar school in Freising , he passed the Abitur in August 1867 as the best in his class. After studying philosophy and theology at the University of Munich, he was ordained a priest on June 29, 1872.

Prince Regent Luitpold appointed Alois Hartl as cathedral chapter on March 18, 1906. The revolt took place on April 19, 1906. On January 31, 1911, Alois Hartl was appointed permanent commissioner for the grammar schools, upper secondary schools and other secondary schools in the area of ​​the archbishopric. From March 1907 he was also a councilor at the archbishopric consistory, from April 12, 1907, marriage bond defender .

Pope Benedict XV appointed Alois Hartl on June 16, 1921 titular bishop of Germaniciana and auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising; on September 4, 1921, the episcopal ordination took place. In the same year he received an honorary doctorate from the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Munich.

Alois Hartl initiated and financed, together with his brother, the cathedral dean Martin Hartl (* May 24, 1849 in Nassenhausen; † April 7, 1925), the construction of the church of St. Martin in his home town of Nassenhausen, which took place from 1914 to 1916 April 1920 was consecrated by Archbishop Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber .

Alois Hartl died on a confirmation trip as a result of a heart attack and was buried in the crypt of the church he had built in Nassenhausen.

The picture shows a detail of a portrait of the auxiliary bishop, which was made by his brother Martin Hartl and which is owned by the family.

Episcopal coat of arms

Coat of arms stamp with the official coat of arms of the auxiliary bishop Alois Hartl

An episcopal coat of arms of Alois Hartl was not verifiable until 2019, also with the help of the files in the archives of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. Pencil Steiner depicts an unheraldic coat of arms that has no real connection with the auxiliary bishop.

The fact that it was nevertheless possible to discover the coat of arms of auxiliary bishop Alois Hartl, hitherto unknown in the professional world, is due to the schematism of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.

This "who's who" of the archdiocese, published periodically, did not contain a picture of the coat of arms sought, but it recorded all episcopal ordinations. In addition to the numerous confirmations, there was only one altar consecration that Alois Hartl had undertaken: on October 22, 1922, he consecrated the altar in the lower church of the Heilig Blut pilgrimage church in Altenerding.

For this altar consecration, Auxiliary Bishop Hartl himself had written a certificate with a Latin text and authenticated it with his coat of arms stamp. Since Alois Hartl is named as the owner of the stamp in the Latin transcription and Alois Hartl has signed his signature next to it, the depicted coat of arms is with absolute certainty the previously unknown coat of arms of the auxiliary bishop.

Sources and literature

• Files in the archives of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
• Erwin Gatz (ed.): The bishops of the German-speaking countries 1785/1803 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-428-05447-4 , p. 286.
• Höglmüller, Eckhart: The prelate brothers Hartl and the new church in Nassenhausen. In: Bruck land and people. Local supplement of the Fürstenfeldbrucker Tagblatt, No. 97 of 11/12. November 1995
• Research work by Hans Hartl, Nassenhausen-Adelshofen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Files in the archives of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
2. ^ Pencil Steiner, Claus D .: Church heraldry in Bavaria. The coats of arms of the archbishops and bishops since 1817 , Verlag Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1986, p. 229
3. ↑ Linder, Dieter: Rediscovered after 100 years. The lost coat of arms of a Munich auxiliary bishop , in: Der Wappen-Löwe. 21. Volume with delivery to the roll of arms, self-published by Der Wappen-Löwe ​​e. V., Munich 2019, pp. 51–63