Anton Rauscher

Anton Rauscher SJ (born August 8, 1928 in Munich ) is a German Jesuit and social ethicist .

Life

Shortly before the end of the Second World War , Anton Rauscher was still employed as a soldier in a pioneer unit and was only able to do his Abitur after the end of the war. He first studied from 1947 to 1948 at the Philosophical-Theological University of Freising and from 1948 philosophy , theology and Christian social studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome . As an alumne of the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum , he was ordained priestly on October 10, 1953 in Rome by Cardinal Clemente Micara , the Pro- Prefect of the Congregation for Rites . In 1956 he was with the work "principle of subsidiarity and occupational order in, Quadragesimo anno '" at Gustav Gundlach to the doctor of theology doctorate . Shortly thereafter, in 1956, he joined the religious order of the Society of Jesus and completed his novitiate in Ireland. After a lectureship for Social Ethics from 1957 to 1960 at the Sophia University in Tokyo , he graduated from 1960 to 1964 to study economics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster . 1968 habilitation he specialized in Christian Social Sciences.

Anton Rauscher was the 1971 Chair of Christian Social Ethics at the University of Augsburg appointed . In 1996 he retired . He has been visiting professor at Sogang University in Seoul since 1998 .

In 1963 he succeeded Gustav Gundlach SJ as director of the Catholic Social Science Center in Mönchengladbach . In 2010 he handed over his office to Peter Schallenberg .

Rauscher has published authoritative works on Catholic social teaching. Together with Jörg Althammer , Wolfgang Bergsdorf and Otto Depenheuer , he is the editor of the “Handbuch der Katholische Soziallehre”. He and his sister Katharina Rauscher founded the “Foundation for the Promotion of Catholic Social Teaching”.

honors and awards

• Lorenz Werthmann Medal from the German Caritas Association
• Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1989)
• Honorary membership of the Union of Scientific Catholic Student Associations Unitas (UV) (1990)
• Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class (1993)
• Honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Lublin (1999)
• Awarded the "Heinrich Pesch Prize" (2003)
• Awarded the city plaque of the city of Mönchengladbach (2003)
• Honorary doctorate from Sogang University in Seoul (2005)
• Augustin Bea Prize (2011)

Web links

• Literature by and about Anton Rauscher in the catalog of the German National Library
• The new order 6/2008: Dedicated to Anton Rauscher , accessed on December 12, 2012 (PDF; 582 kB)