Carl Vath
Carl Hermann Vath (born October 12, 1909 in Niederlahnstein ; † August 18, 1974 in Much-Kranüchel ) was a German merchant and Roman Catholic prelate .
Life
After attending grammar school in Oberlahnstein and Koblenz , Vath completed a commercial apprenticeship in New York . From 1920 he worked as a wholesale merchant in China , especially in Shanghai .
At the age of 39 he entered a Catholic seminary , studied philosophy and theology, and was ordained a priest in 1952 . After his ordination he lived in Hong Kong and worked for the Catholic Center there. He was the editor of two church newspapers, Kung Kao Po and The Sunday Examiner . In 1959 he was the first pastor of the German-speaking Catholic community in Hong Kong. He founded Caritas Hong Kong and was its first director. He initiated the construction of schools, hospitals, kindergartens, old people's homes, refugee apartments and training workshops.
In 1971 he succeeded Jean Rodhain as President of Caritas Internationalis based in Rome.
honors and awards
- 1960 - Federal Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1961 - Monsignor , later papal house prelate by Pope John XXIII.
- 1965 - Investiture in the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem in Rome by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Tisserant
- 1967 - Appointment as Apostolic Protonotary by Pope Paul VI.
literature
- Georg Specht: Tai-Pan of the poor. Carl Vath, founder of Caritas Hong Kong . Lambertus-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1993, ISBN 978-3-7841-0656-4 .
Web links
- Entry on Carl Vath in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinz Gödde: Religion in Hong Kong . Ed .: Markus Porsche-Ludwig, Jürgen Bellers. Traugott Bautz ( online ( memento from July 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) [accessed February 7, 2017]). Religion in Hong Kong ( memento from July 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ German-speaking Catholic Church in Hong Kong. ( Memento from September 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Retrieved on February 7, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vath, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vath, Carl Hermann (full name); Vath, Carl H .; Vath, Karl H. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German merchant, Roman Catholic prelate |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niederlahnstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th August 1974 |
| Place of death | Much-Kranüchel |