Clemens Hofbauer Aid Organization
The Clemens Hofbauer relief organization for late priest professions eV Bad Driburg was founded on February 1, 1920 by Pastor Bernhard Zimmermann in Warstein- Belecke , entered in the register of associations of the Warstein district court on February 10, 1925 and moved to Bad Driburg in 1948 ( Brakel district court , register of associations No. 7). It is the purpose of the association to this day to support young men with vocational training who want to take up a church profession ( priest , deacon , religion teacher, socially charitable profession) but do not have a high school diploma .
The aid organization is therefore still the sponsor of a late career seminar , the “Studienheims St. Klemens”, founded in 1922 in Belecke, 1928 to Bad Driburg and moved to Paderborn in 1997 (Clementinum Paderborn). Since 1922 an in-house school has been attached to the student home and also sponsored by the aid organization, which existed with full state approval from 1946 to 1966 under the name "Gymnasium Clementinum" and from 1966 to 1997 under the name " Clemens-Hofbauer-Kolleg " .
These institutions, founded by Zimmermann, were trend-setting in terms of educational policy and had model character. Because it was the first school in the entire German-speaking area that was specially geared towards adults with vocational training. This completely new type of school began to gain general acceptance in the 1960s under the name of Second Education . Zimmermann's foundation was four decades ahead of this trend. In recognition of his services, Theodor Heuss awarded him the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, in 1954 .
The board of directors of the relief organization is formed today by the respective vicars general of the Archdiocese of Paderborn and the Diocese of Münster as well as the respective rector of the St. Klemens student home, the boarding school attached to the school in which the "Clementines" live (today "Clementinum Paderborn").
In cooperation with the Aschaffenburg dean Ferdinand Hufgard, Zimmermann founded a Clemens-Hofbauer-Hilfswerk eV in 1926, including a student home in Aschaffenburg. The study home had to be closed in 1935, however, the Aschaffenburg aid organization still exists today.
literature
- Bernhard Zimmermann: Klemens Hofbauer relief organization. In: Josef Höfer, Karl Rahner (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church (2nd edition) . Volume 6. Freiburg 1961, Col. 333.
- Peter Möhring: Prelate Bernhard Zimmermann (1880–1969). Personality and work. In: Yearbook District Höxter 2000. Höxter 1999, pp. 93-104.
- Rainer Hohmann, Ulrich Schulz (eds.): The St. Klemens study home for late professors Bad Driburg, Belecke, Aschaffenburg and Paderborn (1922-2010). On the history of the first school of the second educational path to the Abitur in the German-speaking area. Paderborn. Bonifatius-Verlag 2012.