Franz Xaver Münch

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Franz Xaver Münch (born September 22, 1883 in Cologne , † October 19, 1940 in Florence ) was a German Catholic clergyman and papal house prelate since 1926 .

Life

Franz Xaver Münch was born as the son of the teacher Peter Münch, who worked at the Cologne orphanage, and his wife Katharina, b. Breidenbach, born on September 22, 1883 in Cologne, where he attended the Cologne Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium. Münch then studied law for four semesters in Bonn , whereupon he switched to Catholic theology in 1904 , which also took him to Freiburg i. Br. And Munich led.

He was ordained a priest on March 14, 1908 in Cologne by Cardinal Antonius Hubert Fischer and a week later was appointed second chaplain at the St. Apollinaris Rectorate (still St. Josef Parish) in Düsseldorf , but did not take up his position until March 5, 1909 Service in Erkrath as a chaplain.

In Düsseldorf, Münch found a connection to the Association of Academically Educated Catholics , an academic circle that was formed at the beginning of the century in Metz, Strasbourg and Würzburg around Hermann Platz and his friend Theodor Abele , both of whom later worked in school, and that with the transfer from Hermann Platz had shifted its focus to Düsseldorf and Bonn. Robert Schuman (1886–1963), Heinrich Brüning , Paul Simon (cathedral provost) and Alois Dempf also belong to the context of this group .

Münch was secretary of the Catholic Academic Association for over 20 years . The Catholic Academic Association of Germany ( KAV for short ), which is represented in all Catholic dioceses , later emerged from this association .

On February 24, 1915, he was drafted into military service as a division and hospital pastor during the First World War and served 18 months on the Western Front . In 1916 he was the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Felix von Hartmann was appointed Secretary General of KAV and on October 7, 1916 at St. Maternus in Cologne adskribiert . In 1918 he received his doctorate under Heinrich Schrörs on the Enlightenment theologian Thaddäus Anton Dereser (1757-1827). For his work at the KAV he was appointed papal house prelate on February 23, 1926.

Franz Xaver Münch died on October 19, 1940 in Florence and was buried on November 13, 1940 in the Campo Santo Teutonico in the priestly crypt B 177.

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SURNAME Münch, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1940
Place of death Florence