Bruno Harder

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Bruno Harder (born March 13, 1908 in Neuburg an der Kammel , † July 16, 1969 in Dießen am Ammersee ) was a German Roman Catholic prelate . He is one of the well-known priest personalities of the war and post-war period in Augsburg.

Life

Bruno Harder was one of two sons of the Augsburg doctor Hermann Harder and his wife Theresia; his mother died when he was 13 years old. He attended high school near St. Stephan in Augsburg. After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy , art history and music in Munich ; he was an avid organist . At the same time he attended lectures in theology and later moved into the diocesan seminary Herzogliche Georgianum in Munich. At the age of 23 he was ordained a priest in 1931 .

He worked as a chaplain in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm , a year later he moved to the parish of St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg as town chaplain and was in charge of youth work in Augsburg during the Nazi era. He was also president of the Kolping family journeyman's association . Again and again he and the diocesan youth pastor Alphons Satzger clashed with the National Socialist rulers who tried to integrate all youth associations. There were several arrests and interrogations by the Gestapo . After Alphons Satzger was expelled from Bavaria, Harder took over all youth work in the illegal underground. At the beginning of the war, Harder became the site pastor in Augsburg and was responsible for the military hospitals . In 1943 he was appointed cathedral vicar at the Cathedral of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Augsburg.

After the end of the war, Harder rebuilt youth work as a diocesan youth pastor in the diocese of Augsburg . In 1953 he was appointed pastor of St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg. In 1955, together with Bishop Josef Freundorfer , he organized the millennium of the battle on the Lechfeld .

In 1959 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested in Fulda Cathedral on September 26, 1959 by Archbishop Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the Order.

In 1967 he had to retire due to health problems. He died in the monastery of the Vincentine Sisters in Diessen .

honors and awards

Fonts

  • St. Ulrich and Afra Basilica in Augsburg , Rösler 1955

swell

  • Biography in: Yearbook 2005 of the Association for Augsburg Diocesan History e. V. , Volume 39, page 631

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ludwig Gschwind: Jugendseelsorger im Untergrund , Augsburger Allgemeine , February 26, 2010, accessed on January 14, 2015
  2. ↑ Beginnings of Catholic Action: 1.4 Significance of Youth Work , Diocese of Augsburg , accessed on January 14, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Harder, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic prelate
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuburg an der Kammel
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1969
Place of death Dießen am Ammersee