Anton Tumbrägel

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Anton Tumbrägel (born March 7, 1925 in Krimpenfort near Lohne ; † April 13, 2000 in Cloppenburg ) was a German Catholic priest and researcher of house inscriptions , especially of the Oldenburger Münsterland .

Life

Anton Tumbrägel worked during his studies at the University of Freiburg as an employee of Johannes Vincke at the Institute for Religious Folklore. He was also friends with Joachim Widera , who later also worked at Johannes Vincke's chair and - like Tumbrägel - presented an important study on house inscription research.

Probably on the advice of Vincke, to whose circle of inscription researchers he belonged, Tumbrägel published two first folkloric essays on the “attitude to life” in house inscriptions as early as 1950 and 1957. In these he traces the question of whether or to what extent the trends of time (such as secularization ) are also reflected in house inscriptions. Much more important and fundamental for the subsequent research on house inscriptions, however, is the monograph "House inscriptions of the Oldenburger Münsterland" published in 1959 , in which Tumbrägel succeeds in embedding the house slogan and house inscription tradition thoroughly in cultural history and identifies him as a "pioneer of house inscription research in the Oldenburger Münsterland" .

Ordained a priest in 1951 in Münster by Bishop Keller, he first worked in Garrel, Bösel, Strücklingen and Dinklage before he was appointed pastor of the parish of St. Peter in Wildeshausen in 1965 . 1972–1978 he worked as a family chaplain in Damme before he formulated his basic pastoral concern as pastor in St. Marien zu Halen: “The family has priority and means a piece of the future”. Because, according to Tumbrägel's early and sober analysis of recent social developments, the future of society lies “in the small group”, the smallest social unit, the family. For Tumbrägel, family pastoral care always also meant: “As an advocate for people, giving answers to the serious questions of meaning of our day”. Even if he was often denied encouragement from the church authorities, the leitmotif of his pastoral work, which began with the individual, with direct contact (e.g. in regular family circles) and the motto “Everything by the laity, nothing without the priest ”as a clearly forward-looking approach. Nevertheless, his relationship with the official church in this very phase does not seem to have been free of tensions, possibly because he “thought further and deeper in his pastoral methods” “than others” whereupon the Viennese theology professor Paul Zulehner, who is friends with Tumbrägel, in his The festive sermon for the 40th anniversary of his priesthood was explicitly received with his advice to "learn to forego the expected thanks from the church authorities".

literature

  • Theodor Tebbe: The Vincke house inscription circle. Life and work of Johannes Vincke, Johannes Thomes, Anton Tumbrägel and Joachim Widera. Friesenheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049296-9 .
  • Anton Tumbrägel: Baroque attitude towards life in the house inscriptions of the Vechta district. in: Heimatblätter (Vechta) 1950 (January) p. 2f.
  • Anton Tumbrägel: Peasantry and Zeitgeist in new house inscriptions. in: Heimatkalender für das Oldenburger Münsterland, Vechta 1957, pp. 91–92.
  • Anton Tumbrägel: House inscriptions of the Oldenburger Münsterland. in: Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 1959, pp. 1–56 (special edition).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This reciprocal friendship between the house inscription researchers Antonm Tumbrägel and Joachim Widera is traced in the essay The House Inscription Research by Anton Tumbrägel and Joachim Widera. Good friends and eminent inscription researchers. In: Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 2015, pp. 152–172
  2. ↑ Tebbe 2015, pp. 73ff
  3. ↑ Tebbe 2015, pp. 68, 70
  4. ↑ Tebbe 2015, pp. 68, 70f
  5. ↑ cf. Tebbe 2015 p. 72f and Nordwestzeitung from October 3, 1991
personal data
SURNAME Tumbrägel, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic priest and researcher of house inscriptions
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Krimpenfort at Lohne
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 2000
Place of death Cloppenburg