Bonaventure Josef Schweizer

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Bonaventure Josef Schweizer SDS (* July 5, 1893 as Josef Schweizer in Ebnet near Freiburg im Breisgau ; † June 2, 1968 in Meran ) was a Roman Catholic priest , from 1953 to 1965 he was superior general of the order of the Salvatorians and in this capacity voting member of the Second Vatican Council .

Origin and education

Josef Schweizer was born in Ebnet in 1893 as the son of a large family. At the age of 18 he joined the order society Societas Divini Salvatoris (Society of the Divine Savior) in the Salvatorkloster Hamberg in Upper Austria . At Christmas 1912 he made the first religious professorship. He then completed a degree in philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome . During the First World War , he was captured as a soldier in France and interned in Switzerland. After the war he studied theology in Freiburg (Switzerland) and Passau .

Act as a priest

Memorial plaque on the Church of St. Hilarius in Freiburg-Ebnet

On June 26, 1921, he was ordained a priest in Passau Cathedral .

From 1921 to 1927 he worked as an educator and administrator at the Salvatorkolleg Klausheide near Paderborn , until 1931 he was a teacher and superior in the Hermann-Josef-Kolleg in Steinfeld (Eifel) , then for ten years as a novice master and superior in the Salvatorkolleg Heinzendorf in what is now Polish Bagno, Oborniki Śląskie municipality in Lower Silesia . From 1940 to 1947 he headed the North German Order Province from Berlin , which also included Silesia , and subsequently the Swiss Province as the first provincial superior until 1951 . Until 1953 he was also director of the Drognens educational center in the Swiss canton of Friborg . In 1953 Josef Schweizer was elected fourth general superior of the Society of the Divine Savior. He held the office for twelve years. At the Second Vatican Council he participated as a synodal from 1962 to 1964.

In the last years of his life he worked as a clergyman in the monastery of the Salvatorians in Merano Bozen . He died on June 2, 1968 while the service celebrated . He was buried in Meran-Untermais .

Honors

  • Honorary citizenship of his home parish
  • Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Obituary of the Generalate of the Society of the Divine Savior, Rome, Whitsun 1968, quoted in Ebnet im Dreisamtal by Adolf J. Schmid , Schillinger Verlag 1999, ISBN 978-3-89155-246-9 .
  2. ↑ a b Karl Leisner and Father Franziskus Maria vom Kreuz Jordan. Internationaler Karl Leisner Circle (IKLK), accessed on February 29, 2020 .
  3. ^ A b Father Bonaventura Josef Schweizer, SDS In: catholic-hierarchy.org . Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Swiss, Bonaventure Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Swiss, Josef (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic priest and superior
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Level
DATE OF DEATH 2nd June 1968
Place of death Meran