Friedrich Froehling

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Friedrich Fröhling (* 1903 ; † February 26, 1984 in Hamburg ) was a German Roman Catholic religious priest and SAC . He was general secretary of the Raphaelsverein (1946–1975).

Life

Friedrich Fröhling joined the Pallottine Order in 1925 . In 1931 he was ordained a priest. He worked for the Raphaelsverein founded in 1871 for the protection of Catholic emigrants in Hamburg, which, among other things, made it possible for those persecuted by the Nazi regime to flee from Germany to South America ; In 1941 the association was banned.

After the end of the war, he headed the reconstruction of the Raphaelsverein , an association for emigrants, foreign workers, refugees, binational couples and returnees. He was its general secretary from 1946 to 1975. He was also involved as a ship's chaplain and was its director on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference .

In 1968 he was appointed officer of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and invested in Rome on February 29, 1968 .

swell

  • Paperback of public life, volumes 28-30, Festland Verlag 1980, page 608
  • The Federal Republic of Germany State Manual, C. Heymanns 1968, page 137

literature

  • Manfred Hermanns: Worldwide service to people on the move. Advice and welfare for emigrants through the Raphaels-Werk 1871 - 2011. Pallotti-Verlag, Friedberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-87614-079-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lutz Eugen Reutter: The auxiliary work of Catholic organizations and church agencies for those persecuted in National Socialist Germany Hamburg 1969, page 325
  2. ↑ Pallottiner in Hamburg - Rectorate ( Memento from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 2, 2014
  3. ^ Lutz Eugen Reutter: Catholic Church as a refugee in the Third Reich: the care of emigrants by the St. Raphaels-Verein Paulus Verlag 1971, pages 128 and 281 ff.
  4. ↑ Jochen Oltmer: Controlling and Managing Migration: Germany from the late 19th Century to the Present , Unipress, 2003, p. 347
personal data
SURNAME Fröhling, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fröhling SAC, Friedrich; Fröhling SAC, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic religious priest, general secretary of the Raphalswerk
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1984
Place of death Hamburg