Franz Huerth

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Franz Hürth (born October 5, 1880 in Aachen , † May 29, 1963 in Rome ) was a Catholic clergyman, Jesuit and moral theologian .

Life

Franz Hürth was born in Aachen as the son of the architect Hermann Joseph Hürth and his wife Wilhelmine (née Fleischhauer). His older brother was Theodor Hürth , who later became General Praeses of the International Kolping Society . Franz Hürth studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the Jesuit University in Valkenburg / Netherlands as well as jurisprudence in Berlin. From 1918 he was the successor to August Lehmkuhl professor of moral theology in Valkenburg. There was one Karl Rahner to his students. In the discussion about the sterilization of the mentally ill in the late 1920s, he took a contrary stance towards Joseph Mayer and advocated the fundamental incompatibility of Catholic moral theology and eugenics . In autumn 1934 Hürth was taken over by Pope Pius XI. commissioned to prepare a statement on National Socialist ideology for the Holy Office together with his friar Johannes Rabeneck . After half a year, the two Jesuits had "- mainly from Hitler's " Mein Kampf "- a list of the main errors of nationalism , racism and totalitarianism together." After the religious college in Valkenburg was dissolved by the Gestapo after the German invasion of the Netherlands in July 1942 , Hürth moved to the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome as a professor of moral theology . There he gained importance and influence as a moral theological advisor to Pope Pius XII. and was called to be consultor to the Holy Office. Following his suggestion, Pope John XXIII. the French theologians Yves Congar and Henri de Lubac as consultors of the Theological Preparatory Commission of the Second Vatican Council .

Honors

Fonts

  • Review of Joseph Mayer, “Rechtsliche Unfruchtbarmachung”, Freiburg 1927. In: Scholastik, Vol. 3, pp. 418 ff., 216 ff., Freiburg 1928.
  • Statutory sterilization. In: Voices of the Time , Volume 59, Issue 5, Volume 117, February 1929, pp. 360-375.
  • The position of the Catholic moral doctrine on criminal law in general and on the criminal law protection of morality in particular. , Paderborn 1929.
  • "Guilt and Atonement" from a psychological and caring standpoint. Cologne 1931.
  • The will to have a child: On the question of the morally permissible use of the tempora agenneseos. In: Chrysologus, vol. 72, booklet 11 a. 12, Paderborn 1932.
  • Theologia Moralis , Rome 1948.
  • De principiis, de virtutibus et praeceptis , Rome 1948.

literature

  • L. Koch: Jesuitenlexikon, Paderborn 1934, reprint Leverkusen - Hervelee 1962, p. 835

swell

  1. ↑ Thomas Brechenmacher : The Vatican and the Jews. Story of an unholy relationship . Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52903-8 , p. 180.f

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personal data
SURNAME Huerth, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and moral theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1963
Place of death Rome