Ernst Laws

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Ernst Laws (born August 7, 1903 in Braunsberg , Warmia ; † March 22, 1981 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Catholic clergyman, non-fiction author and editor.

Life

Youth and education

Ernst Laws was a son of the bookbinder Michael Bruno Laws and his wife Anna Katharina, née Brem. He graduated from the local high school in 1924 and studied law at the University of Freiburg in the winter semester of 1924/25 . He joined the Bund New Germany and the student corporation Germania Hohentwiel -Freiburg (Breisgau) . He then studied theology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU) and then at the Lyceum Hosianum in Braunsberg. He was ordained a priest in 1929 from the Bishop of Warmia Augustinus Bludau in the Frauenburg Cathedral .

Clergyman in East Prussia

After 1929 he was as a young chaplain the parishes in the forest Reimer, New Klocke village , Tilsit and Olsztyn assigned. In 1931 he worked as a religion teacher in Guttstadt , then arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 , interrogated and held in custody for months. After his release he was employed as a chaplain in Marienburg and was then arrested again together with provost Franz Pingel and chaplain Bruno Weichsel and imprisoned in the Gestapo prisons in Königsberg , Breslau and Berlin. After 1937 Ernst Laws worked as a pastor at the Provost Church in Königsberg. From 1939 to 1942, after his imprisonment and because of rheumatoid arthritis and an eye problem, he was in Arosa, Switzerland for health rehabilitation and at the same time a chaplain there . After recovering, he worked as a pastor in Mohrungen in 1942 and in Marienwerder from 1944 .

After the end of the war

After fleeing from East Prussia before the front was approaching, Ernst Laws briefly became a pastor in Groß Mechau near Putzig and in 1946 became a curate in Kaufbeuren . From 1956 he worked as a consistorial councilor at the Warmia consistory . After 1958, he worked as a teacher in Dillingen , post-1960 studies professor and high school teacher in Donauwörth and after 1964 as a religion teacher in Ulm- Gögglingen hired. In 1960 he received the title of Monsignor and in 1979 he was appointed Papal Honorary Prelate and Deputy Dean .

From 1950 to 1964 he published the Warmia House Calendar and from 1966 to 1978 Our Warmia Book for the Warmia Diaspora . In 1969 he moved from Ulm to Darfeld and then to an old people's home in Borghorst .

Ernst Laws died on March 22, 1981 in Frankfurt am Main after a stay in the Sankt Katharinen Hospital . The burial took place a few days later in Borghorst.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Arthur Kather : Our way into God's heart. A spiritual yearbook . Bishop Maximilian Kaller Foundation, Münster 1963.
  • The Waaler Marienspiel . Neumeyer, Landsberg am Lech 1963.
  • with Otto Miller : Where do you get laughter from now? Recommendations of a free mind . Glock and Lutz publishing house, Nuremberg 1966.
  • Praise to God in East Prussia. The year in the Warmian hymn. Sung by the Kaufbeurer Martinsfinken under the direction of Ludwig Hahn . Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 1968. ( Speech plate )
  • Lamentation for a church. A Requiem for St. Katharina, Braunsberg . Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg, Leer 1976, ISBN 978-3792101650 .
  • Confession of the rosary. Thoughts . Verlag Gott und Werk, Sankt Augustin 1977, ISBN 3-8050-0083-9 .
  • Küng and the Church's Creed. Information about Küng's “Being a Christian Complex”, “20 Theses on Being a Christian”, “What Must Stay in the Church”, “ Does God Exist? "And Jens " For nothing but the truth " . Verlag Gott und Werk, Sankt Augustin 1978, ISBN 978-3-8050-0072-7 .
  • with Otto Miller: When the thirst for God torments us. Prayed lyrics . Verlag Gott und Werk, Sankt Augustin 1979, ISBN 3-8050-0087-1 .

literature

  • Laws, Ernst in; Ernst Federau: The high school graduates of the Braunsberg high school from 1818 to 1945 . In: Magazine for History and Archeology of Warmia (ZGAE). Supplement 8/1990, p. 24.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Warmia House Calendar / Our Warmia Book. Ernst Laws, 1978, accessed October 19, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Laws, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic clergyman, non-fiction author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunsberg , Warmia
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1981
Place of death Frankfurt am Main