Franz Xaver Eichinger

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Franz Xaver Eichinger SVD (born December 2, 1910 in Marienthal , Markt Regenstauf , district of Regensburg ; † March 27, 1992 in St. Wendel , Saarland ) was a German religious , missionary and doctor who worked in China from 1940 to 1953.

Life

Franz Xaver Eichinger, the eldest of seven children of a carpenter and state forest worker, attended elementary school in Fischbach near Nittenau from 1917 to 1923. At the age of 13 he entered the St. Peter's Mission House in Tirschenreuth . As one of the first students of the newly founded Steyler Mission House in Ingolstadt , he came on September 6, 1924 together with 16 other seminarians and in 1931 passed his Abitur at the Reuchlin-Gymnasium Ingolstadt. In 1931 he joined the religious order of the Steyler missionaries and studied philosophy in the clerical scholasticate in the St. Gabriel missionary seminar near Vienna , where he also made his first vowsdropped. He was a teacher at the Marienburg private high school near Rheineck on Lake Constance. From 1934 to 1938 he studied theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome . In 1937 he made perpetual vows at the Collegio del Verbo Divino in Rome.

On October 31, 1937, he was ordained priest in the Pontificium Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum de Urbe in Rome. He initially worked as a teacher for ancient languages, English, mathematics and sports at the mission school in St. Wendel, Saarland.

In 1940 he went as a missionary to Kansu in central China, which he reached after an 18-day journey with the Siberia Express. In 1941 he became a teacher in the episcopal city of Tsaochowfu in Shantun Province. From late 1942 to August 1, 1945, he served as a missionary in Chinghu and Sinsiang. On August 1, 1945, the communist “8. Army ”arrested and deported to the Chinese hinterland. In 1945 he was able to return to the central station of the Sinsiang Mission with forged papers. From 1946 to 1949 he worked in Ninshien in the south of the Gansu province and built a mission hospital in Minchow . In 1948 he received his doctorate in medicine from Chungching State University in Shanghang.

After the Communists came to power in September 1949, he was initially engaged as a doctor and pastor in Tibet and Mongolia, from 1950 to 1951 in Huangyang in the Chinghai Province. In 1951 he became the chief physician of the Catholic Hospital in the capital of Chinghai Province, Sinning. In 1953 he had to leave China, albeit under the protectorate of Mao Tse Tung.

From 1953 he was a religion teacher at the vocational school in Regensburg, from 1954 to 1988 he supervised Asian students at the mission seminar in Ingolstadt. From 1988 to 1991 he lived in the Mission House in Tirschenreuth and from 1991 to 1992 in the Mission House St. Wendel.

Eichinger founded the “Society for the Training of Jordanian Girls to Become Nurses”, which was dissolved in 2011. In 1967 P. Eichinger founded a mission community in Wuppertal-Barmen, the so-called "Community of Love" and the "Unio Caritatis".

In 1969 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Tisserant , Dean of the College of Cardinals, and invested on December 6, 1969 by Wilhelm Cleven , Grand Prior of the Order. In 1969 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class .

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SURNAME Eichinger, Franz Xaver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eichinger SVD, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Steyler missionary and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienthal , Regenstauf market , Regensburg district
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1992
Place of death St. Wendel , Saarland