Augustin Olbert

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Augustin Olbert

Augustin Olbert SVD (born November 16, 1895 in Dossenheim , † November 18, 1964 in Heidelberg ) was a German bishop .

Life

Olbert was born on November 16, 1895 in the Bergstrasse community of Dossenheim. In the mission house St. Wendel of the Divine Word Missionaries Augustin Olbert received his secondary education attended. From there he was drafted into military service when the First World War broke out . After the end of the war he entered the novitiate of the Society of the Divine Word in the Mission House St. Gabriel near Vienna, where he made his first vows in 1920 and his perpetual vows in 1924 and completed his philosophical and theological studies. He was ordained a priest on May 13, 1926 in St. Gabriel. As a member of the Roman Catholic religious order Society of the Divine Word , he went to China as a missionary in the same year. In September 1926 he arrived in Shanghai. The 31-year-old first learned the Chinese language in the Steyler Society House in Taikiachwang. Then the Apostolic Prefect of Tsingtao ( Qingdao ), Georg Weig SVD, called him to be a chaplain in Tsingtao. In 1928 the Apostolic Prefecture of Qingdao was elevated to the position of Apostolic Vicariate and entrusted to Georg Weig. After the death of Bishop Weig in 1941, the Chinese Thomas Tien Ken-sin SVD was appointed Vicar Apostolic. In 1946, the Holy See established the official hierarchy in China and the vicariates became ordinary dioceses. Bishop Thomas Tien Ken-sin was named Archbishop of Beijing and was the first Asian and Chinese to receive cardinal dignity . In this regard, Pope Pius XII appointed Olbert on July 8, 1948 as Bishop of the Diocese of Tsingtao . He was ordained a bishop by Tien Ken-sin on October 3 of the same year. Cocoon screechers were the Bishop of Zhoucun Henry Ambrose Pinger and the Bishop of Caozhou Franz Hoowaarts . The Chinese government arrested Olbert in 1951 and expelled him from the country in 1953 after 22 months in prison. He returned to Germany and was then active in the Archdiocese of Freiburg . In 1964 he died and was buried in Dossenheim.

As early as 1948, his home community Dossenheim had named Olbert its first honorary citizen . The then Federal President Theodor Heuss awarded him the Great Federal Cross of Merit in 1954 .

literature

  • Matthew Swift: The Last Bishop of Tsingtao. A short account of the missionary life of Bishop Augustine Olbert. In: Word in the World 1966, Techny, Illinois, USA 1966, 91-96.
  • Johannes Fleckner: Augustin Olbert. Bishop of Tsingtao 1895–1964. In: Steyler Missionschronik 1966 , 97-100. Likewise in: J. Fleckner: So they were. Divine Word Missionaries from 18 countries. St. Augustin 1991, 149-157.
  • Chronicle of the Good Shepherd and St. Michael. Mannheim 1987.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dossenheim community ( Memento from August 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Olbert, Augustin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bishop
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Dossenheim
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1964
Place of death Heidelberg