Emmerich David

Emmerich David (born May 7, 1882 in Gillenfeld, † February 4, 1953 in Cologne ) was vicar general of two Cologne archbishops from 1931 to 1952 .

Life

Ordained a priest on June 17, 1905 in Cologne , he was then repetent at the Collegium Marianum in Neuss . From 1908 chaplain of the Church of Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome , he oversaw the priestly college of the same name. At the same time he did his doctorate at the Dominican University Angelikum . Rector of the German community in Genoa since 1910 , and from 1912 he was again active in Germany as a repetitionist at the Collegium Albertinum in Bonn . He accompanied Adolf Rücker and Andreas Evarist Mader, both orientalists from the Görres Institute (Jerusalem), on trips to the Orient.

At the beginning of the First World War he became chaplain of the imperial troops who fought together with the Turkish Ottomans . From 1916 he was also pastor for the German-speaking workers of the Baghdad Railway with parish office in Angora, today's Ankara . He had the secret mandate of the Vatican to assist the Catholic Armenians who had not yet been deported , since Pope Benedict XV. proceeded from the targeted extermination of the Armenian people . Pastoral care for the Catholic Armenians was largely forbidden by the police director and church services, which were banned in public from Pentecost 1916, were disrupted in his apartment. As a chaplain, he was the director of the Eskir Schehir soldiers' home , which he sold in 1918 as part of the withdrawal of the German troops in favor of an Armenian orphanage in Angora.

Expelled from Turkey in 1919, he was elected rector of the Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome and by the Cologne cathedral chapter to act as a middleman in the negotiations regarding the replacement of the archbishop's chair in Cologne. He also had to create a new financial basis for the Campo Santo Teutonia. Karl Joseph Cardinal Schulte brought him to Cologne in 1930 as cathedral chapter and appointed him vicar general on March 23, 1931. After Schulte's death, the cathedral chapter elected him vicar of the capitular . Schulte's successor, Joseph Cardinal Frings, confirmed him in the office of Vicar General. On March 4, 1952, he retired from this position due to illness.

Honors

• 1952: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

See also

• List of Cologne Canons

literature

• The Armenian Question and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey (1913–1919). Documents from the political archive of the German Foreign Office , compiled by Wardges Mikaeljan (Yerevan 2004)
• Eduard Hegel : The Archdiocese of Cologne between the Restoration of the 19th Century and the Restoration of the 20th Century (= History of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Vol. 5) , Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-7616-0873-X

Web links

• Survivors of the genocide in Armenia, lecture script by Prof. Dr. Ashot Hayruni
• Literature by and about Emmerich David in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Savior of Angora , Christ in the Present, Herder, No. 11/2016, pp. 121f
2. ↑ Dt. Documents on the genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire

predecessor	Office	successor
Joseph Heinrich Peter Vogt	Vicar General of Cologne 1931 - 1952	Joseph Teusch