Christian Thomas Rachlé

Christian Thomas Rachlé (born November 1, 1965 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian Roman Catholic theologian and author.

biography

Rachlé grew up as the second of four children in Eferding in Upper Austria . His mother came from Upper Austria, his father from Graz , Styria , whereas the family name suggests roots in French-speaking Switzerland. After completing his school education, he studied in Horn and Salzburg and completed a doctorate in Graz. After Kaplan years in Wolfsberg and Treibach / Althofen he came as an academy chaplain at the Army NCO Academy by Enns in Upper Austria and on the weekends, he was a country parson in Preitenegg in Bürgerspitalskirche operates. He is said to have felt his vocation as a priest during a soldiers' pilgrimage to Lourdes in France .

As a priest in the military diocese of Austria, he stayed with the Austrian Armed Forces , started an officer career and was with the Styrian Military Command for 15 years . Rachlé completed missions abroad for the Austrian Armed Forces on the Golan , in Bosnia-Herzegovina , in Kosovo , in Chad and in Lebanon . On these trips he turned to writing in the 2000s.

Today he works for the armed forces command in the Belgian barracks in the dean's office in Graz for Styria, Lower Austria, Burgenland and Vienna.

The proceeds of his books should go to charitable purposes at St. Georgs Verein.

Publications (selection)

• About life, love, suffering and eternity. Aphorisms. Vehling, Graz 2011. ISBN 978-3-853-33202-3
• with Birgit Rünger: Stories that life writes. Vehling, Graz 2013. ISBN 978-3-853-33237-5
• Life, love, light. Vehling, Graz 2016. ISBN 978-3-853-33274-0
• 13 - thirteen. Vehling, Graz 2016. [m. Ill. By Werner Berg ] ISBN 978-3-853-33274-0
• What are we left with? Vehling, Graz 2017. ISBN 978-3-853-33294-8

Honors

• 2006: Silver medal for services to the Republic of Austria
• 2012: Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2018: Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Thomas Rachlé in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Christian Thomas Rachlé in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Christian Thomas Rachlé at www.mildioz.at
• Christian Thomas Rachlé at www.mein Bezirk.at
• Christian Thomas Rachlé at www.kleinezeitung.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ OG-Portrait: Dr. Mil.Superior Christian Thomas RACHLÉ. In: Journal of the Styrian Officers Society. 3–4, 2005, p. 33 (PDF; 1.9 MB)