Benedictine high school Ettal

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Benedictine high school Ettal
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type of school high school
School number 0078
founding 1905
address

Kaiser-Ludwig-Platz 1

place Ettal
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 47 ° 34 '9 "  N , 11 ° 5' 37"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 34 '9 "  N , 11 ° 5' 37"  E
student 233 (as of 2019)
Teachers 28
management Hubert Hering
Website www.ettal-gymnasium.de

The Benedictine high school Ettal is a monastery school with an attached boarding school of the Ettal Abbey , which has existed since 1905.

history

In 1905 the monastery school was founded as a royal Bavarian Latin school.

From 1938 the Nazi regime forbade the school to form new entrance classes, so it was gradually dismantled. On September 1, 1941, it was closed as a monastic institution and converted into a German school home. In 1945 the Benedictine high school and boarding school reopened.

In 1955 the Alt-Ettaler Ring was founded, a charitable association that supports current or former students and employees of the Ettaler Gymnasium in emergencies.

At first it was still a boarding school for boys, but external students and girls are now also accepted. In 2005, the grammar school had 335 external students from the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district and 125 boarding students .

Focus

The school is a humanistic grammar school with a modern language branch. This means that in the fifth grade you start with Latin and as a pick-up course English, in the sixth you then add English and in the eighth grade you can choose between Greek and French. Because of its ecclesiastical character, the subject of religion has a special significance.

Boarding school

After the systematic and ongoing violence and abuse scandal was uncovered in 2010, registrations for the boarding school fell significantly. In 2009, 13 fifth graders had entered the boarding school, since then the numbers have been falling every year until no more children were registered in the 2014/15 school year. While the abbot Barnabas Bögle denies a connection with the abuse scandal, the director of the boarding school Frater Gregor Beilhack clearly names the cause and describes the boarding school's existence as endangered.

Within the boarding school , which is only open to boys, there is a group of the spiritual movement Community of Christian Life .

Violence and abuse cases

In connection with cases of abuse that became public in 2010, u. a. In Catholic institutions , the Benedictine high school in Ettal and the monastery boarding school came into the public eye.

Church reactions

At the end of February 2010 Abbot Barnabas Bögle and Father Maurus Kraß, prior of the abbey and head of the school, resigned at short notice. The Roman Curia has appointed Old Abbot Pius Engelbert von Gerleve as Apostolic Visitator . After completing the visit, Cardinal Franc Rodé stated in July 2010 that the Abbot and Prior could not be accused of any misconduct in connection with the abuse cases. Both could return to their offices. This happened on July 11, 2010.

The external special investigator, lawyer Thomas Pfister, appointed by the Archbishop of Munich and Freising , Reinhard Marx , on February 24, 2010, submitted a ten-page final report with a 173-page appendix with victim reports to the Ettal Abbey and the Archbishop's Ordinariate in Munich on April 12, 2010 submitted to the allegations made against the monastery. Pfister confirmed that up to around 1990 hundreds of children had been mistreated, tortured and, in some cases, sexually abused over a period of several decades. At the same time he emphasized that the educational concept of school and boarding school had improved fundamentally in the meantime.

Immediately after he had sent the final report to the monastery, the special investigator was released from his duties by the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising. On the one hand, this brought the educational work to a standstill, on the other hand there was an internal church dispute between the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and the Ettal monastery. "Above all, the monastery and the archbishopric are arguing about whether the diocese leadership was informed about the termination of the mandate of special investigator Thomas Pfister and the appointment of a new lawyer." The dispute between the archdiocese and the monastery continued in February 2011 because of another suspected case.

The new special investigator Hans-Joachim Jentsch essentially confirmed his predecessor's report on February 17, 2011. According to his announcement, Ettal Abbey will set up a compensation fund of at least 500,000 euros for the victims of sexual crimes from its own assets.

Consequences under civil law

Since, according to the Munich lawyer Stephan Lang, several abuse victims represented by him have the impression that the monastery wants to "sit out" the scandal and do nothing to make amends, he and his clients are now taking legal action against the monastery. For this purpose, the association “Ettaler Abrauchs- und Misshandlungsopfer e. V. “founded.

The press spokesman for the monastery, Michael Müller, said: “[...] We are in close contact with the White Ring and have an extensive concept of sacrifice. The monastery stands by its responsibility. ” Lawyer Stephan Lang had also quoted the White Ring , among other things with the words:“ ... my law firm is working with the victim support organization Weißer Ring to develop a concept for a round table. ”With the support of the law firm, its content was established coordinated between the White Ring and members of the association.

The nationwide press spokesman for the organization, Helmut K. Rüster, denied this. According to him, there was “no concrete contact with the law firm.” Rather, the cooperation with the Ettal Abbey is “good and productive”. A representative of the law firm contradicted this and referred to a cooperation with the Ettaler Abuse Victims Association, which began in May 2010.

Criminal law processing

On March 2, 2010, a local police investigation was carried out in the presence of the public prosecutor's office .

In May 2010 the condemned District Court Garmisch-Partenkirchen a priest of the monastery legally to a five-month suspended sentence for possession of child and youth pornography .

In 2014, the Munich Higher Regional Court prepared a trial against a father against whom abuse allegations were made. The criminal proceedings on 21 cases between 2001 and 2005 lasted until March 11, 2015 and ended with the sentencing of the then boarding school prefect to a suspended sentence of 22 months, suspended for four years. The District Court of Munich II prohibited the priest from dealing professionally with children and adolescents and imposed outpatient sex therapy on him. On August 4, 2016, another case against the father for the sexual abuse of children was opened at the Munich II Regional Court in another case. The defense announced a full confession . On 10 August 2016, the priest in the first instance was to imprisonment convicted of seven years. The judgment from 2015 was included.

2013 study

On March 7, 2013, the results of a 150-page study by the Munich Social Science Institute for Practical Research and Project Consulting (IPP) and the social psychologist Heiner Keupp were presented to the public. The study commissioned by the monastery itself bears the title Sexual Abuse, Psychological and Physical Violence in the Boarding School of the Benedictine Monastery Ettal: Individual Consequences and Organizational-Structural Backgrounds .

According to the study, abuse and sexual assault in the Ettal abbey boarding school were part of a “system of oppression” and violence until the 1990s. According to the study, the monks formed the students "through selection and painful punishment of the poor". Corporal punishment had been "specifically used as an educational tool". The intensity of the violence allows no other conclusion than that "forms of black pedagogy " had prevailed. The perpetrators had "either lost control of their affects or acted on the basis of sadistic motivation".

At the same time, the study misses the perpetrators' insight: “The perpetrators are not really remorseful.” For example, the former Ettal boarding school director Father Angelus Waldstein complains that everything is now lumped together, it is only about “Individual cases that may be remembered by this or that student”.

Headmaster since 1945

  • P. Stephan Schaller OSB (1945–1979)
  • P. Raphael Lang OSB (1979–1984)
  • P. Angelus Waldstein OSB (1984–1997)
  • P. Maurus Kraß OSB (1997-2010)
  • Wolf Rall (acting) (2010–2011)
  • P. Maurus Kraß OSB (2011–2012)
  • Hubert Hering (from 2012)

Boarding school director since 1945

  • P. Stephan Schaller OSB (1945–1950)
  • P. Athanasius Kalff OSB (1950–1964)
  • P. Bernhard Stoeckle OSB (1964–1969)
  • P. Godehard Ibscher OSB (1969–1977)
  • P. Gabriel Heuser OSB (1977–1981)
  • P. Angelus Waldstein OSB (1981–1984)
  • P. Rupert Sarach OSB (1984–1990)
  • P. Paulus Koci OSB (1990-2006)
  • Ms. Thomas Neumann OSB (2006–2013)
  • Ms. Gregor Beilhack OSB (from 2013)

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literature

  • Bastian Oberbayer, Rainer Stadler: Brother, what did you do? Ettal Abbey. The perpetrators, the victims, the system . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2011, ISBN 978-3-462-04340-2 .

Web links

Commons : Benediktinergymnasium Ettal  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian Ministry of Culture: Ettal Benedictine High School. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
  2. ↑ Contemporary witness report by Monsignore Klaus Mayer , p. 121. In: Mechtild Gilzmer (Hrsg.): Resistance and collaboration in Europe . 1st edition 2004, ISBN 978-3825866020 .
  3. ↑ a b Süddeutsche Zeitung: Not a single fifth grader , July 4, 2014
  4. ↑ Abbot of Ettal Monastery resigns , kath.net , February 24, 2010
  5. ↑ Article: Ettal Abbey: The visitor was already there on March 26, 2010 on medals, accessed online on March 26, 2010
  6. ↑ License for those responsible at Ettal Abbey , Südwest Presse , July 10, 2010
  7. ↑ Ettal Abbey: Abbot Barnabas Bögle re-elected. ORDEN online - obidos GmbH, July 13, 2010, accessed on December 28, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Investigation report Ettal Abbey. 180-page report of beatings, abuse, and sadism. In: Spiegel online April 12, 2010 ( online )
  9. ↑ gxb / apn: Abuse: "Many hundreds of students" were victims of "extremely brutal abuse". In: Focus Online . April 13, 2010, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Online editorial office of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation: "Tatters fly between the Archdiocese and Ettal" ( Memento from April 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) , BR-Online, April 14, 2010
  11. ↑ Welt Online : Ettal parents criticize the Archdiocese of Munich. KirchenVolksBewbewegung »We are Church«, February 11, 2011, accessed on December 28, 2012 .
  12. ^ Matthias Drobinski : A touch of reconciliation. Ettal: Final report on abuse. Süddeutsche.de , February 17, 2011, accessed on August 28, 2012 .
  13. ↑ Abuse scandal in Ettal: The victims have had enough. ( Memento from June 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Abendzeitung from June 24, 2010
  14. ↑ a b website of the association
  15. ↑ Münchner Merkur, June 28, 2010
  16. ^ After cases of abuse: Raid in Ettal Abbey ( memento of May 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), sueddeutsche.de on March 2, 2010
  17. ^ Child pornography, beatings and sexual abuse , Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 5, 2010
  18. ^ Monk sentenced to suspended sentence , Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 19, 2010
  19. ↑ Father convicted of sexual abuse . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from March 11, 2015
  20. ↑ Elmar Voltz and David Herting: Former father from Ettal announces confession. ( Memento from August 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Bayerischer Rundfunk , August 4, 2016
  21. ↑ Elmar Voltz, Joseph Röhmel: Former prefect has to go to prison for seven years. Bayerischer Rundfunk, August 10, 2016
  22. ↑ Child abuse in Ettal Abbey: Former monk sentenced to seven years in prison . Spiegel online from August 10, 2016
  23. ↑ IPP report ( Memento from March 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 1.5 MB)
  24. ↑ IPP report ( Memento of March 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.5 MB), p. 130
  25. ↑ http://sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de/texte/verbindungen/34142/2
  26. ↑ http://www.kinderothilfe.de/multimedia/KNH/Downloads/Medienpreis/Medienpreis+2011/Printbeitrag_+Hinter+Mauern.pdf