Arnold Schulte

Arnold Schulte (born July 12, 1906 in Oberhausen ; † August 9, 1984 in Essen ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman and religious educator .

Training and first assignments

After school and university, Schulte worked as a teacher for eight years before he decided to embark on a spiritual career. After additional training in the seminary in Bensberg , now Cardinal Schulte-house , he received on February 4, 1937 at the Great Cathedral in Cologne by Archbishop Karl Joseph Cardinal Schulte , the ordination . His first assignment took him from March 15, 1937 as a chaplain to Hückelhoven in the diocese of Aachen . On April 12, 1938, Schulte was transferred to the parish of St. Antonius in Wuppertal - Barmen as a chaplain , and on May 15, 1941, he was appointed an exposed local chaplain for the Schönebeck district.

Confrontation with National Socialism

Soon after his ordination, Schulte got into first clashes with the National Socialist regime. A teaching permit issued in 1937 by the regional president of Aachen , Franz Vogelsang , was revoked after objection by the NSDAP and the Gestapo ; In the aftermath, Schulte was even warned by Vogelsang and has been monitored by the Gestapo ever since. In the same year he had to accept a warning because of a Christmas sermon. In Wuppertal Schulte was interrogated and warned by the Gestapo on January 8, 1940, because he had issued a circular without the necessary permission; he was forbidden to write any more. A complaint by the SD on December 7, 1941 for allegedly insidious statements in a sermon was followed by a renewed interrogation on January 13, 1942 and another warning on May 1, 1942.

Work after the Second World War

On October 3, 1947, Archbishop Joseph Cardinal Frings Schulte appointed religion teacher at the municipal modern-language grammar school and at the Carl Duisberg grammar school in Wuppertal, and on January 1, 1952, he was appointed to the faculty . In 1959 he was appointed professor for religion and the methodology of religious instruction by the North Rhine-Westphalian minister of education, Werner Schütz, at what was then the Pedagogical Academy in Essen, which was affiliated with the Essen University of Applied Sciences in 1972 . After Schulte had retired as professor in 1973, he was involved in the priestly service in the parish of St. Andreas in Essen- Rüttenscheid until his death .

Honors

• 1965: Papal secret chamberlain
• 1973: Papal Honorary Prelate

literature

• Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne, edited and published by the Archbishop's General Vicariate in Cologne, 24th edition, JP Bachem Cologne 1954, p. 991.
• Obituary in: Ecclesiastical Official Gazette for the Diocese of Essen from 23 August 1984, 27. JG, Item 11, pp. 73f
• Ulrich von Hehl (Ed.): Priest under Hitler's terror. A biographical and statistical survey. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh Paderborn 1996³, Vol. I, p. 790. ISBN 3-506-79839-1 .