Anton Stonner

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Anton Stonner (born August 2, 1895 in Starkstadt (Bohemia) , † January 22, 1973 in Bonn ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman in the diocese of Berlin , theologian , folklorist and university professor of ethnic origin.

Life

Anton Stonner was a member of the Jesuit order from 1914 to 1928 and was ordained a priest in Innsbruck in 1922 . Since 1928 he was a diocese of Berlin as a secular priest. He received his PhD in 1930 in Education (Dr. phil.), 1932 in Theology (Dr. theol.), Habilitation in 1935. From 1935 to 1939 he took a Visiting Professor of Pedagogy and Catechetics at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich , at the same time from 1937 to 1939 the task of university preacher in St. Ludwig (Munich) and from 1940 to 1945 a substitute professor for Christian philosophy at the German University in Prague . In 1946 and 1947 he worked as a lecturer in Munich, from 1948 he first taught professorial chairs, then he was a full professor for pastoral theology in Bonn and retired in 1963 .

Nationalist attitude of Anton Stonners and their reception

In 1997 Georg Denzler drew attention to Stonner's efforts to create a connection between Germanic folkism and Christianity. For example, Stonner wrote in 1934: "The Germans of the present are pervaded by a longing for a right-wing becoming popular". Stonner saw in Germanness the "indissolubly intimate intertwining of Germanic and Christian nature"., Compatible with the anti-Semitism of National Socialism. “As is well known, this emphasis on racial history corresponds entirely to the views and intentions of the Führer,” said Stonner. Denzler quotes Friedrich Zoepfl's review of Stonner, Germanentum und Christianentum , 1933, in the Theologische Revue, Volume 33, 1934: “Originating from practice, the booklet aims to serve practical purposes, namely the reorganization of teaching in the sense of a strong one, as required by the national state Emphasis on Germanic-German essence ... As a joyful expression of Catholic commitment to the Germanic-German hereditary basis of our being, Stonner's little book is to be sincerely welcomed and we hope that it will be widely distributed. "

Fonts (selection)

  • Church and Community. Lectures, given at the Innsbruck Academic Conference 1925 , Oratoriums-Verlag (Verlag J. Kösel & F. Pustet) Munich 1927, (= The Catholic Thought, Volume 19).
  • Childhood before God. 9 sermons on the 200th anniversary of the canonization of St. Stanislaus Kostka , delivered in the church at the court , published by the "Fahne Mariens" publishing house, Vienna 1927.
  • Pedagogical understanding. A pedagogical-scientific study based on a survey , J. Klinkhardt, Leipzig 1931 (at the same time university publication: Munich, Phil. Diss.).
  • Religious contemplation. Lectures for the educated , Herder, Freiburg 1933.
  • Germanism and Christianity. Pictures from the early days of Germany for the knowledge of the German essence , Pustet, Regensburg 1933.
  • National education and religious instruction , Regensburg 1934.
  • The Thought of Light in Holy Scripture and the Liturgy of the Mass. A Bible Study Series , Schöningh Paderborn 1936.
  • Bible reading with Catholic youth. A religious pedagogy study on the Catholic Bible movement outside of school based on a survey , 3rd edition Schöningh, Paderborn, 1936.
  • Bible reading and interpretation. A practical guide to the evaluation of the Holy Scriptures (= School of Life of Holy Scripture, number 1), Kyrios-Verlag für Christian Geistesgut, Meitingen near Augsburg 1941.
  • The hl. Hedwig , Patroness of Silesia (= The Silesian Series, Volume 3), Pattloch, Aschaffenburg 1948.

Sources and literature on Anton Stonner

  • Schematism of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising for 1933 (as of January 15, 1933), Munich undated (1933), p. 65.
  • Heidrun Alzheimer-Haller / Wolfgang Brückner : Folk affinity. Anton Stonner and the Third Reich. In: Yearbook for Folklore NF 14 (1991) 115–120.
  • Georg Denzler : Anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism in the theology of our century: Karl Adam , Michael Schmaus and Anton Stonner . In: Facta Universitatis. Volume 1, 1997, pp. 11-20 ( PDF version ).
  • Stonner, Anton, in: Thomas Forstner, Priest in Times of Change. Identity and living environment of the Catholic parish clergy in Upper Bavaria 1918 to 1945, Göttingen 2014, p. 223, note 635.
  • Anton Stonner, in: Critical online edition of the diaries of Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber (1911–1952). Available at: http://www.faulhaber-edition.de/haben_bs.html?doctype=bio&idno=01536 . Last accessed on March 25, 2018. Online since: March 5, 2016. Last updated: December 11, 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Critical online edition of the diaries of Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber (1911-1952). Diary entry of December 28, 1945 EAM, NL Faulhaber 10023, p. 93.Available at: https://www.faulhaber-edition.de/dokument.html?idno=10023_1945-12-28_T01. Last accessed on April 9, 2019
  2. ↑ A. Stonner: National Education and Religious Education , Regensburg 1934, p. 11
  3. ↑ A. Stonner: National Education and Religious Education , p. 20
  4. ↑ A. Stonner: National Education and Religious Education , S. 69th
personal data
SURNAME Stonner, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Starkstadt (Bohemia)
DATE OF DEATH 22nd January 1973
Place of death Bonn