Edwin Carnival

Edwin Fasching (born April 10, 1909 in Hittisau , † July 11, 1957 in Cologne ) was an Austrian theologian . He was head of the pastoral office of the diocese of Feldkirch and founder of the work of the Good News of Batschuns .

Life

Fasching's father Alois Fasching came from Innichen in South Tyrol, the mother, née Maria Nenning, from Hittisau. In 1920 the von Hittisau family moved to Dornbirn, where Edwin Fasching graduated from the Dornbirn secondary school in 1927 . Fasching studied at the same time as the later Bishops Paulus Rusch and Bruno Wechner at the international seminary Canisianum of the Jesuits in Innsbruck and completed his studies at the University of Innsbruck with a doctorate in scholastic philosophy.

As a student, Fasching was part of a founding initiative to build an emergency church in the Schererhof settlement in Neu-Arzl near Innsbruck. On March 18, 1934, Mardi Gras was ordained a priest in Innsbruck Cathedral by Bishop Sigismund Waitz . He held his primacy in his native Hittisau. First a cooperator in Matrei am Brenner , he became a chaplain in Hard in October 1935 . In 1939, Bishop Paulus Rusch appointed him head of the pastoral office in Feldkirch .

During the Nazi era, carnival ventured into retreats and Bible courses for laypeople, but had to hold these courses for Vorarlbergers in the so-called Altreich because this was forbidden in the more strictly run Tyrol-Vorarlberg district . After the war, Fasching succeeded in bringing the holiday home of the women's union of Batschuns, which was expropriated by the annexation of Austria to Hitler's Germany, into church property with women who were committed to the church. This gave rise to the lay group of women of the Good News from Batschuns , today the work of the Good News . Originally three branches were planned, also a male lay group and a priest group, which did not come about due to the early death of Mardi Gras.

Numerous initiatives of a religious nature for the diocese and of a social nature for the state of Vorarlberg go back to carnival. He founded the Hackwald children's sanatorium in Ebnit for tuberculous children . For young guest workers from the eastern federal states of Austria, he and Chaplain Emil Bonetti founded the young workers 'house in Dornbirn and the young workers' dormitory in Rankweil . With the work of the Frohbotschaft he founded the Quelle publishing house, the Kristallfilm traveling cinema and the Feldkircher Pilgerfahrten travel service . For families he thought about a vacation and founded the Marienruh house in Innerlaterns , and the family helper school in Bregenz also dates back to carnival.

Carnival was buried in Batschuns.

literature

• Norman Buschauer:  FASCHING, Edwin. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8 , Sp. 434-437.
• Norman Buschauer: The church belongs in the world like salt in soup. Edwin Fasching 1909 - 1957. Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-88309-497-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kath-Kirche-Vorarlberg Norman Buschauer: Energetic presence of mind - on the 100th birthday of Msgr. Edwin Fasching, Vorarlberger Kirchenblatt 14/2009
2. ↑ Bautz ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Table of contents for: Norman Buschauer: The church belongs in the world like salt in soup. Edwin Fasching 1909-1957.