Anton Pfitzer

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Anton Pfitzer

Anton Pfitzer (born August 16, 1818 in Schrezheim near Ellwangen , † March 11, 1892 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ) was a German Catholic clergyman and local researcher.

Life

Pfitzer studied theology and art history in Tübingen and was ordained a priest in 1844. From 1848 he worked in Schwäbisch Gmünd as a chaplain in the Franciscan Church and St. Leonhard . He was also pastor in the Gotteszell women's prison . In 1857 Pfitzer gave the impetus for the establishment of the local Catholic journeyman's association , today's Kolping Society . He was its president until 1860 . On May 16, 1876, Pfitzer was appointed Catholic parish priest. He has rendered special services to the restoration of the Gmünder churches (especially the minster and theJohanniskirche from 1869 to 1880).

In addition to his chairmanship in the journeyman's association, Pfitzer was President of the Pius Association and chairman of the Vincentius Association and the Association for Released Prisoners . He held other honorary positions, among others, in the commission for school building, in the board of trustees, local school board and the administrative board for the blind asylum.

Pfitzer's main local history work is a monograph published in 1888 on the Gmünder Johanniskirche. As a theologian, he mainly published a collection of sermons held in Schwäbisch Gmünd and a work on hospital pastoral care.

Grave slab on the cemetery wall at Leonhardsfriedhof (2020)

Because of his gout , Pfitzer was dependent on a wheelchair in the last years of his life. He was buried in the Leonhard cemetery in Schwäbisch Gmünd.

Honors

  • In 1890 Pfitzer was made an honorary citizen of Schwäbisch Gmünd.
  • The Pfitzerstraße in Schwäbisch Gmünd was named after him.
  • A plaque commemorates Anton Pfitzer in the second southern choir chapel of the Holy Cross Minster.

literature

  • Rems-Zeitung No. 61 of March 13, 1892 ( Internet Archive ).
  • Stephan Jakob Neher : Personal catalog of the clergy of the Diocese of Rottenburg who have been ordained and used in pastoral care since 1813 . Schwäbisch Gmünd 1894, p. 95 UB Freiburg .
  • Rudolf Weser in: Ellwanger Jahrbuch 1917/19, pp. 124–126 ( Commons ).
  • Richard Strobel: The restoration of the Johanniskirche in Schwäbisch Gmünd 1869-1880 . In: Gmünder Studien 4 (1993), pp. 143-228, here pp. 217-219.
  • Peter Spranger : A questionable message from the afterlife to the minster pastor . In: Einhorn-Jahrbuch Schwäbisch Gmünd 2002, pp. 111–116, here p. 114.
  • Manfred Brandl: The German Catholic Theologians of Modern Times , 3 (2006), p. 560 (not viewed).
  • Bernd Kuhn: Pastor Anton Pfitzer - founder of the Gmünd Kolping Family . In: Messages from the Kolping Family Schwäbisch Gmünd, issue 243, Schwäbisch Gmünd, 2007, p. 4.

Web links

Commons : Anton Pfitzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Anton Pfitzer  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Stütz: Heimatbuch für Gmünd and further surroundings. 1. Volume: Gmünd in words and pictures, at the same time a guide through the city , self-published, Schwäbisch Gmünd, 1926, p. 53
  2. ↑ Figure on Commons .
personal data
SURNAME Pfitzer, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic clergyman and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Schrezheim
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1892
Place of death Schwäbisch Gmünd