Ansgar Höckelmann

Ansgar Höckelmann OSB (* December 17, 1862 in Freckenhorst as Theodor Friedrich Höckelmann ; † November 27, 1943 in Liebenau ) was a Benedictine and from 1899 to 1929 abbot of the Erdington and Weingarten monasteries .

Life

Höckelmann entered the Benedictine Abbey of Beuron in 1880 and was ordained a priest in the Seckau Abbey in 1886 . In 1891 he went to Erdington Priory near Birmingham for four years, and in 1895 as prior to the Cucujães Monastery in Portugal (near Oliveira de Azeméis ). Elected abbot in Erdington in 1899, he returned to England. Suspended and interned during the First World War , he had to leave the United Kingdom with the expelled German monks after the end of the war and came to Weingarten in Württemberg in 1922 , where the monks took over the buildings of the 1803 secularized Reichsabbey Weingarten.

In Weingarten, Höckelmann's task was primarily to consolidate the abbey’s financial basis and to convert the buildings that had been used for a century into a monastery. To attract young people, he founded an oblate school. In 1924 he celebrated the 200th church consecration and his 25th abbot anniversary. In 1929 he resigned from office for reasons of age and then lived partly in Weingarten and partly in Beuron. After Weingarten was abolished by the authorities in 1940, he moved to Liebenau, where he died in 1943.

literature

• Rolf Hartmann: P. Ansgar Höckelmann (1862–1943), Benedictine abbot from Freckenhorst. In: Series of publications by the Freckenhorster Heimatverein, Heft 10, 1994, pp. 17ff.
• Höckelmann, Ansgar in Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de), version of October 15, 2016

Web links

• Entry on Ansgar Höckelmann on Orden online (April 11, 2009), accessed on March 8, 2017