Franz Monse

Franz Xaver Monse (* 11. July 1882 in Mittelwalde , district Habelschwerdt ; † 24. February 1962 in Strangford, a district of Bad Rothenfelde ) was large dean of up to 1972 Archdiocese Prague belonging Glatz . At the same time he was Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Prague in Prussia .

Life

Monse came from a family of craftsmen. After studying theology at the University of Breslau , he was ordained a priest in 1907 in the Breslau Cathedral . He was then appointed parish vicar and pastor in parishes in the Glatzer country , first in Ebersdorf and then in Bad Reinerz . In 1913 he received his doctorate in theology with a New Testament thesis in Breslau . After the senior teacher examination in 1915, he worked as a religion teacher at the grammar school in Glatz, but in 1919 switched back to pastoral care. In 1921 he became a pastor at the Glatzer parish church Maria Himmelfahrt. He founded the Glatzer Caritas office for his parish, which has 24,000 believers, and initiated the restoration of the parish church. In 1935 he was appointed papal secret chamberlain .

In 1938 he was appointed to the office of grand dean and vicar general of the County of Glatz, the district of jurisdiction for the Prussian part of the Archdiocese of Prague. At the same time he was appointed honorary cathedral chapter in Wroclaw . It was connected with the right to wear miter , crook and pectoral and to be allowed to participate in the German Bishops' Conference . In 1940 he received the highest prelate title of Apostolic Protonotary , which was associated with the right to wear a miter and pectoral.

When, after the Second World War in 1945, the Kłodzko region, like almost all of Silesia, fell to Poland, he continued to exercise his office until October 1, 1945, until Lower Silesia was subordinated to the Polish Apostolic Administration in Wroclaw . On April 3, 1946, Monse was expelled from Glatz. Via stations in Werl and Wiedenbrück , he came to Listrup in the Emsland in the summer of 1946 , where he settled. In September 1948, the Archbishop of Prague, Josef Beran, commissioned him to continue pastoral care for the expelled Glatzer. As early as 1947 he founded the Grafschaft Glatzer pilgrimage in the pilgrimage town of Telgte , which continues to the present day and is preceded by a priestly conference. With that he had created a meeting place for the expelled Glatzer Catholics in the Federal Republic. From 1948 to 1953 Monse was also the diocesan praeses of the St. Hedwigs Work of the East Expellees in the Diocese of Osnabrück . In 1950 he moved to Georgsmarienhütte to be closer to the episcopal city . He found his final resting place in 1962 at the Canon Cemetery in Osnabrück.

Honors

• Order of the Silesian Eagle, 2nd class
• 1935: Papal secret chamberlain
• 1938: Papal house prelate
• 1940: Apostolic Protonotary
• 1952: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1957: bronze medal of Pope Pius XII. on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the priesthood

literature

• Michael Hirschfeld: Prelate Franz Monse (1882–1962). Grand Dean of Glatz . Works on Silesian Church History, Vol. 7, Sigmaringen 1997
• Michael Hirschfeld: Monse, Franz Dr. In: Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (Ed.): Emsländische Geschichte, Vol. 7, Dohren 1998, pp. 206–212
• Aloys Bernatzky : Lexicon of the county Glatz . Marx Verlag, Leimen 1988
• Arno Herzig , Małgorzata Ruchniewicz : Dzieje Ziemi Kłodzkiej , Hamburg-Wrocław 2006
• Irena Klimaszewska: Monse Franz. In: Popularna Encyklopedia Ziemi Kłodzkiej , Volume 2 (K – M), by Janusz Laska, Mieczysław Kowalcze, Kłodzko 2009, Wydawnictwo "Maria", ISBN 978-83-60478-08-0 , p. 268
• Michael Hirschfeld:  Monse, Franz Xaver. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 1044-1047.

Web links

• Monse, Franz . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
• http://www.studiengesellschaft-emsland-bentheim.de/Seiten/Biographien/Texte/Monse.html