Felix zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg

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Family coat of arms of the princes of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg

Felix Joseph Friedrich zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (born April 6, 1907 in Kleinheubach , Löwenstein Castle ; † October 21, 1986 in Munich ) was a prince from the noble house of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, a Jesuit priest and theological author and publicist.

origin

The noble family Löwenstein-Wertheim goes back to the Wittelsbacher Friedrich I, the victorious , Elector of the Palatinate (1425–1476) and his son Ludwig . Prince Felix was born as one of the 9 children of Aloys Fürst zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1871–1952) and his wife Josephine Countess Kinsky von Wchinitz and Tettau (1874–1946). His brother Franz was also a Jesuit, while his brother Karl was president of the Central Committee of German Catholics from 1948 to 1967 .

Life

Felix zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg entered the Jesuit order. He had a personal friendship with his brother Alfred Delp (executed in 1945). After he was ordained a priest, he was sent to the Indian mission in 1938. There Felix zu Löwenstein worked as the rector of the Jesuit college Poona , which was then headed by the southern German province of the order. When the Second World War broke out , Father Löwenstein was interned as a German citizen. He was first taken to the Ahmednagar camp , from there to Dehra Dun until the end of the war . Among other things, the future BASF CFO Rolf Magener was his fellow prisoner here. Magener fled to Japan in 1944 under adventurous circumstances and published the book "Die Chance Was Null" (The Chance Was Zero) . Father Felix zu Löwenstein was released from prison in 1946 and returned home with serious health problems.

From 1956 Felix zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg worked as director of the new Heinrich-Pesch-Haus in Mannheim (since 1973 based in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ). It was an educational institution of the Jesuits and served primarily the political adult education of employees. In 1960 he appeared as a speaker at the Bad Dürkheim Talks at the Neustadt an der Weinstrasse industrial associations . From 1970 to 1984 the clergyman taught as a consultant for society and politics at the Catholic Academy in Stuttgart-Hohenheim , and in 1979 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg .

Father zu Löwenstein last lived in Munich and was buried in the Jesuit cemetery in Pullach .

Activity as an author

As a clergyman, he was always active as a writer and wrote a large number of articles, often published in the magazine “ Voices of the Time ” . As a result of his stay in India, he wrote the book “Christian Pictures in Old Indian Painting” in 1958 , and in 1962 he wrote a commentary on the newly published social encyclical “ Mater et magistra ” in Mannheim . In 1983 Pater zu Löwenstein published a booklet about the Jesuit Philipp Jeningen (1642–1704) in Schwabenverlag Ellwangen, and in 1985 a biography of the Odenwald Jesuit Otto Canisius Farrenkopf (1888–1967), who had been imprisoned in communist Romania for decades, in Johannesverlag Leutesdorf .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roman lead stone : Alfred Delp: story of a witness. Knecht Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-7820-0598-8 , p. 129 (detail scan)
  2. ^ History of the Jesuits in Poona
  3. ^ Memories of fellow prisoner Rolf Benkert, with mention of Father zu Löwenstein
  4. ↑ Memories of fellow prisoner Paul von Tucher, with multiple mentions of Father zu Löwenstein (English)
  5. ^ Heinz Budde: Handbook of the Christian Social Movement. Paulus Verlag, Recklinghausen 1967, p. 125 (detail scan)
  6. ^ Website on the history of the Heinrich Pesch House with mention of Father zu Löwenstein
  7. ^ Website on the speakers at the Bad Dürkheim Talks
  8. ↑ Website on the former teaching staff
  9. ↑ PDF document on the awards ceremony
  10. ↑ Article on the Jesuit cemetery in Pullach ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weissblau.de
  11. ↑ Website as the author in “Voices of the Time” ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stimmen-der-zeit.de
  12. ^ Reference in the catalog of the German National Library
  13. ^ Reference in the catalog of the German National Library
  14. ↑ Data page for the book, on World Cat
  15. ^ Website of Father Farrenkopf
  16. ^ Reference in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Felix zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Felix Joseph Friedrich Karl Aloysius Stanislaus Antonius Augustinus Expeditus Anna Maria Prinz zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious, Jesuit, theologian and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinheubach
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1986
Place of death Munich