Eberhard Hoffmann (Abbot)
Eberhard Hoffmann (born January 21, 1878 in Nauroth ; † April 11, 1940 in Ilanz ) was a German Cistercian and abbot of Marienstatt Abbey .
Life
Hoffmann attended the Collegium Bernardi in Bregenz and entered the Marienstatt Abbey after graduating from high school. Ordained a priest in 1901 and sent to Freiburg in Switzerland for further studies, he received his doctorate in theology there in 1904. In Marienstatt he was the cantor and taught dogmatics at the home school . After Abbot Konrad Kolb opened the Oblate School in 1910, he took over its leadership until he was elected abbot on May 31, 1918.
Abbot Hoffmann tried very hard to consolidate the monastery economically, especially by expanding agriculture, which he had turned into a model estate. In 1922 he repopulated the Himmerod Abbey in the Eifel and in 1927 the Hardehausen Monastery in Warburg. He had the youth home built in Marienstatt and was able to obtain public rights for the Oblate School, today's Abbey High School .
In 1936 he had to flee from the National Socialist persecution to Switzerland, where he worked again as a dogmatics professor in the Benedictine monastery in Disentis .
Works
- The Conversation Institute of the Cistercian Order in its origin and organization. Friborg (Switzerland): University bookstore (O. Gschwend), 1905
literature
- 100 years of resettlement of Marienstatt. Marienstatt, Buch- und Kunstverlag, 1988, pp. 125-133
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Eberhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Abbot of Marienstatt (1918 to 1936) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nauroth |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1940 |
| Place of death | Ilanz |