Autbert Stroick

Autbert Stroick OFM (* 1896 in Rhade as Bernhard Stroick ; † June 5, 1940 at St. Quentin ) was a German Franciscan (OFM) and church historian.

Life

Bernhard Stroick was born as a farmer's son in Rhade. He wanted to become a Franciscan early on and attended the St. Ludwig College of the Saxon Franciscan Province ( Saxonia ) in Vlodrop, the Netherlands . From there he was called up for military service on October 16, 1916 and took part in the First World War as an infantry soldier in France . He became an officer and received the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class and, after gas poisoning, the Wound Badge. The military chaplain P. Theophil Pfeifer ( Capuchin ) later attested to him: “Strict military attitude outside! Strict moral attitude inside! ”On January 11, 1919, Stroick was discharged from the military as a lieutenant and returned to St. Ludwig, where he passed his Abitur.

In 1919 he entered the Franciscan order in Warendorf and was given the name Autbert . He studied philosophy and theology in Dorsten and received on 9 August 1925 at the Paderborn Cathedral, the ordination . He completed his studies in Rome, Münster and Freiburg in 1928 with a doctorate under Heinrich Finke with a dissertation on the Collectio de scandalis Ecclesiae by Gilbert von Tournai , which had played a role at the Second Council of Lyon in 1274. Stroick's exemption for the Roman institute of the Görres Society , which Finke sought , did not materialize. From 1929 to 1940 Autbert Stroick worked as a lecturer for church history at the Philosophical-Theological School of the Saxon Order Province in Dorsten, from 1935 he also taught religious history. From 1936 he was also lecturer for church history at the religious studies of the Cologne Franciscan Province in Mönchengladbach , when the local church historian P. Ulrich Hüntemann OFM (1869-1936) died. In Dorsten he assumed the office of submagister of the clergy, to whom he tried to convey his German national attitude. In addition to various scientific publications in his specialist fields, P. Autbert also wrote edifying works on the topic of the Christmas crib . From 1935 to 1940 he was co-editor of the journal Franziskanische Studien and of the Christmas crib yearbook of the "Kartellverband der deutschen Krippenfreunde", here as the successor to the "crib father" Siegfried Schneider OFM, who died in 1935 . In Dorsten monastery he participated in the Beichtseelsorge , and he spent several years building pastor at the chapel of the count's family of Merfeldt in Lembeck .

At the outbreak of the Second World War , Autbert Stroick, on behalf of the provincial leadership of Saxonia, offered the church and state authorities some "tried and tested members of our religious order as divisional pastors"; that “at least one or the other can move out with the fighting troops as pastors is an honor duty for us in our vocation as well as in the fatherland” he wrote on September 17, 1939 to the Army High Command . He saw this as “the complete use of all available forces on the fighting front, in the medical service and in pastoral care in the service of duty for God, the leader and the fatherland”.

On September 26, 1939, Stroick became a soldier as a "war pastor in the army" and was initially deployed in the Palatinate , where, in addition to his pastoral work, he also gave lectures to officers and soldiers on the history of the Rhine Palatinate and guided tours of art monuments. He was convinced that he would not return from the war himself. In the early summer of 1940 he was one of the units that undertook an offensive on the Somme in France, where Stroick was already a soldier in the Battle of the Somme in the First World War . At his own request, he was deployed to a troop first aid station directly at the front in order to be able to more easily fulfill his “pastoral duties to wounded and dying comrades”. There he was fatally wounded by a shrapnel on June 5, 1940 while the wounded were being recovered. His last entry in his diary on June 4th read: “The big offensive begins tomorrow. [...] The soldiers' attitude is excellent. How many of them will still be alive tomorrow? ”He was buried in the cemetery at the church of Vaux en Vermandois near St. Quentin in uniform with an official cross by the Protestant field chaplain.

Works

• Author and sources of the Collectio de scandalis Ecclesiae (reform writing by Br. Gilbert von Tournay, OFM, for the Second Council of Lyon 1274). In: Archivum franciscanum historicum 23 (1930), pp. 3–41, 273–299, 433–466 and: (Ad Claras Aquas, Florentiae, Collegium S. Bonaventurae) Franziskus-Druckerei Werl 1930 (102 pp.).
• Collectio de scandalis Ecclesiae. Nova editio. In: Archivum franciscanum historicum 24 (1931), pp. 33-62.
• On the ceremonial of Gregory X. In: Historisches Jahrbuch. Vol. 55 (1935), pp. 305-311.

literature

• P. Dr. Raymund Dreiling OFM: P. Dr. Autbert Stroick OFM. Slain as a division pastor on June 5, 1940. Verlag Butzon & Bercker, 2nd edition, Kevelaer 1940 (59 pages)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ By letter in 1939 to Provincial Elisäus Füller, quoted by: Raymund Dreiling OFM: P. Dr. Autbert Stroick OFM. As a division pastor, died on June 5, 1940. 2nd edition, Kevelaer 1940, p. 34.
2. ↑ Jürgen Werinhard Einhorn OFM: Education and training, science, school and pastoral care from the Kulturkampf to the present. In: Joachim Schmiedl (Ed.): From Kulturkampf to the beginning of the 21st century. Paderborn u. a. 2010, p. 633-786, here p. 689 f.
3. ↑ Raymund Dreiling OFM: P. Dr. Autbert Stroick OFM. As a division pastor, fell on June 5, 1940. 2nd edition, Kevelaer 1940, pp. 40–45.54.
4. ↑ Quoted in: P. Dr. Raymund Dreiling OFM: P. Dr. Autbert Stroick OFM. As a division pastor, died on June 5, 1940. 2nd edition, Kevelaer 1940, p. 13f.
5. ↑ P. Dr. Raymund Dreiling OFM: P. Dr. Autbert Stroick OFM. As a division pastor, died on June 5, 1940. 2nd edition, Kevelaer 1940, p. 14.44.
6. ↑ P. Dr. Raymund Dreiling OFM: P. Dr. Autbert Stroick OFM. As a division pastor, died on June 5, 1940. 2nd edition, Kevelaer 1940, pp. 21ff. 45