Ernst Moog (clergyman)

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Ernst Moog (born December 12, 1891 in Dortmund , † September 25, 1930 in Bonn ) was a German old Catholic clergyman and theologian.

Life

Ernst Moog was the son of the old Catholic clergyman and later Bishop Georg Moog (1863–1934) and his wife Gertrud geb. Baum (1865-1931). He grew up with a sister and a brother in Dortmund and Krefeld, where his father was a pastor, and studied Old Catholic theology at the University of Bonn . In 1914 he was at the University of Bern for Doctor of theology doctorate . He was ordained a priest on October 4, 1914 by his father, who had been bishop of the German Old Catholics since 1912 .

Then he was vicar in Cologne, where his father had also been vicar, and later parish administrator in Stühlingen and in Witten. In 1918 he was appointed to the Regens of the Episcopal Seminary. This led to those who had spoken out against Georg Moog in the 1912 bishopric election, the accusation of nepotism was raised. After the seminar was closed in 1922, Ernst Moog moved to the pastor's office in Krefeld. However, he was increasingly dissatisfied with the situation of the Old Catholic Church in Germany. His father writes in his memoirs:

"What made Ernst internally displeased early on was the increasing awareness of the unsuccessfulness of our church in spite of its great historical importance in the struggle against the Roman supremacy."

Ernst Moog joined right-wing extremist circles, wrote for the völkisch magazine Flammenzeichen and for the anti-Semitic association for the German Church founded by Friedrich Andersen and Joachim Kurd Niedlich . Matthias Ring describes Moog's provocative demeanor : “At the Rhenish District Synod in Düsseldorf on March 9, 1930, a scandal broke out when Pastor Ernst Moog, the bishop's son, struck a political note. Demmel reports that Ernst Moog boasted that he was the only pastor of Kr [e] feld who had declared himself in favor of the referendum [against the Young Plan ]; He also demonstrated that our church had always stood up for the emperor, the empire and the army, and called to our leftists, who then left the hall, to leave the church. ' Bishop Georg Moog couldn't find a word to alleviate this derailment of his son. "

During a visit to his father in the bishop's house in Bonn, Ernst Moog suffered a stroke on September 24, 1930 and died around midnight the following day in the Herz-Jesu Hospital in Bonn. Since his funeral was only held in a small group, rumors soon arose about a suicide, the cause of which should have been a dispute between father and son. Only through research by Matthias Ring could these speculations be refuted in 2007.

Publications

  • Antoine Arnauld's position on the ecclesiastical constitutional issues in the fight with the Jesuits. Diss. Bern 1914, 74 pp.
  • Johann Hugo von Orsbeck , Elector of Trier, and the "Jansentum" in Germany. [O. O.], 1919.
  • Jesuit acquisition of a monastery today and then. Säemann-Verlag, Berlin 1925.
  • Article in Religion in Past and Present (RGG), concise dictionary for theology and religious studies. Edited by Hermann Gunkel and Leopold Zscharnack. 2., completely reworked. Ed. Mohr, Tübingen 1927–1931.
  • The old Catholic parish of Krefeld. Willibrord bookstore, Freiburg i. Br. 1931 (published posthumously).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Matthias Ring : Suicide in the bishop's house? Pastor Ernst Moog (1891–1930). In: Christians Today (2007), online
  2. ↑ Georg Moog: My Legacy. Willibrord bookstore, Freiburg im Breisgau 1935
  3. ↑ a b Matthias Ring: "Catholic and German" - The Old Catholic Church in Germany and National Socialism. Old Catholic diocese publisher, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-934610-35-4 , p. 164
personal data
SURNAME Moog, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German old Catholic clergyman and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1930
Place of death Bonn