Franz Groner
Franz Maria Groner (born June 29, 1913 in Cologne - Sülz ; † September 21, 1991 in Bonn ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian .
Groner attended grammar school in Brühl and graduated from high school there in 1931. From 1931 to 1935 he studied theology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and began his training as a priest at the Collegium Leoninum . From 1935 to 1937 he received further training at the Bensberg seminary . 1937, by Cardinal Karl Joseph Schulte , the ordination .
In the same year, Groner took up his first priesthood as a chaplain in knowledge , where he also became president of the deanery of the Catholic youth workers and president of the Catholic workers' association . In 1940 he moved to the Hildegardis Hospital in Cologne-Lindenthal as a hospital chaplain . He then went back to Bonn University for his doctorate and in 1943 supported the placement of a Jewish mother of a fellow student in the theologian convict as a repetiteur at the Collegium Leoninum . In June 1944 he received his doctorate theologiae in Bonn .
From 1956 to 1978 Groner was Professor of Christian Social Studies at the Bonn Catholic Theological Faculty . From 1968 until his death he was co-editor of the Yearbook for Christian Social Sciences .
From 1950 to 1978 he was director of the Central Office for Church Statistics in Catholic Germany and thus editor of the Church Handbook for Catholic Germany .
From 1952 to 1961, in addition to his other duties, Groner was the founding pastor of the parish of St. Ursula in Kalscheuren. There he initiated and shaped the construction of the now profane Church of St. Ursula , which the Cologne architect and Pritzker Prize winner Gottfried Böhm built based on drafts by his father Dominikus Böhm .
Fonts (selection)
- Church and Society Today. Paderborn, Munich, Vienna, Zurich; Schöningh , 1979, ISBN 978-3-506-74451-7 .
- The Church through the ages. Bachem , Cologne 1971, ISBN 978-3-7616-0157-0 .
- Morality between claim and responsibility. Patmos , Düsseldorf 1964.
literature
- Franz Böckle , Franz Josef Stegmann (ed.): Church and society today. Franz Groner on his 65th birthday. Schöningh, Paderborn 1979.
- Stephan Raabe: Professor Franz Maria Groner. In: Bonner Universitätsnachrichten No. 185, January 1992, 45.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Brommer: The Trier Diocese in National Socialism from the View of the Party and State Self-published by the Society for Middle Rhine Church History, 2009, p. 459 (online on Google Books).
- ↑ Local Church and Universal Church before and after the Second Vatican Council, Böhlau Verlag , Cologne, 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20801-1 , p. 349 [1]
- ↑ Local Church and Universal Church before and after the Second Vatican Council, Böhlau Verlag , Cologne, 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20801-1 , p. 350 [2]
- ^ Lothar Roos: Faith and Churchliness in the late liberal society. In: Yearbook for Christian Social Sciences 34 (1993), pp. 267–270 [3]
- ^ Church handbook: official statistical yearbook of the Catholic Church in Germany worldcat.org
- ^ Albert Gerhards: St. Ursula in Hürth Kalscheuren - parish church-profanation-conversion, facts and questions , documentation with the help of Julia Niemann, LIT Verlag , Münster 2009 ISBN 978-3-8258-1911-8 , pp. 58-59 Google Books, excerpt online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Groner, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Groner, Franz Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Roman Catholic theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1991 |
| Place of death | Bonn |