Curt M. Genewein

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Curt Maria Genewein (born July 25, 1921 in Munich ; † March 1, 1991 ) was a German Roman Catholic prelate .

Life

Curt M. Genewein came from a well-known family of doctors in Munich. He was the son of the medical professor and surgeon Friedrich August (Fritz) Genewein (1878–1951) and the surgeon Agnes Genewein born. Müser (1888–1974). His siblings Agnes Antonia (* 1917) and Robert Ignaz (* 1927) were also physicians.

Genewein first studied natural sciences. He broke off a dissertation in progress on the flight of seagulls because the National Socialists wanted to use the research findings. He studied then human medicine and in 1947 with the work Des Walafrid Strabo from the Reichenau "Hortulus" and its plant in Munich to Dr med. PhD. After the war he studied in Switzerland philosophy and Catholic theology and received 1952 in Freising the priesthood .

The Archbishop of Munich, Joseph Cardinal Wendel, appointed Curt M. Genewein as the first diocesan pastor for free Catholic nurses in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and as hospital pastor . In addition, he was in charge of further training for nursing professions in Bavaria. In addition, he became managing director of the Catholic Social Aid Organization in Munich and rector of the Maria Regina house in Munich, a nursing school for free Catholic sisters with an attached dormitory. In the Association of Catholic Sisters' Associations of the World, he was the pastor of the German section.

In 1976, Genewein was the initiator of the establishment of the Catholic Academy for Nursing Professions in Bavaria (today: Catholic Academy for Professions in Health and Social Services in Bavaria eV) and the German Academy for Medical Training in Bad Nauheim. He was a co-founder of the Bavarian Catholic Hospital Association. He founded the Working Group for Nursing in Germany and was its clergyman adviser for two decades. He was the founder of the Munich Ecumenical Working Group for the Service of Old and Sick People and of the International Congress for Nursing Professions in Salzburg, which has been taking place annually since 1977 .

Genewein introduced professional ethics lessons for the first time at six Munich schools for nursing . Together with Paul Sporken , a Dutch professor of ethics, he was the first to create a professional ethics for the nursing professions; Maintain the jointly written human text . Basic principles of professional ethics for nursing professions is a standard work in the education and training of nursing professions.

In 1979 he was appointed to the Munich Metropolitan Chapter. He took on the tasks of public relations and press officer as well as personnel officer for the laity in the Munich Archbishop's Ordinariate . He also became the representative of the Freising Bishops' Conference for the State Committee of Catholics in Bavaria .

In 1981 he was elected and appointed cathedral chapter .

Curt M. Genewein was involved in numerous social projects in the Holy Land . In 1973 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Maximilien Cardinal de Fuerstenberg and invested in the order on May 12, 1973 in Augsburg Cathedral by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

Honors

Fonts

  • Des Walafrid Strabo von der Reichenau "Hortulus" and his plants , Munich 1947 (Diss. Med.)
  • Human care. Basic principles of professional ethics for care professions , Patmos-Verlag Düsseldorf 1975, together with Paul Sporken
  • Jesus, human for other people , Patmos-Verlag Düsseldorf 1978, ISBN 3-491-77464-0 , together with Paul Sporken
  • Being human, remaining human in the hospital , Patmos-Verlag Düsseldorf 1979, ISBN 3-491-77375-X , together with Paul Sporken

items

  • Humanitas in the hospital - from the perspective of the pastor , Langenb. Arch. 332 (1972)
  • The shape of the Christian hospital today in: Doctor and Christ 23 (1977), pp. 196-210

swell

  • Annuario pontificio , 1991 edition, page 2036
  • Horst-Peter Wolff: Biographical Lexicon for Nursing History , 2004, page 110

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d The new Maria Regina house: the first three decades , vocational school for nursing Maria Regina, 2008
  2. ↑ a b Doctors in the Empire: Genewein, Agnes (née Müser) , Free University of Berlin , May 25, 2013
  3. ↑ a b Died: Dr. med. lic. theol. Curt M. Genewein , Dt. Doctor bl. 88, issue 12, March 21, 1991
  4. ↑ a b c Alexander Weiß: Archdiocese of Munich: 50 Years of Groundbreaking Impetus for Nursing Professions , May 10, 2007
  5. ↑ Steffen H. Elsner: Crystallization core of political education: on the history of the academy 1957 to 2007 , Olzog 2009, page 342
  6. ↑ Bayerisches Jahrbuch , C. Gerber 1980, page 265
personal data
SURNAME Genewein, Curt M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Genewein, Curt Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic prelate
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1991