Friedrich Franzen

Friedrich Franzen SAC (born February 5, 1893 in Ediger ; † December 22, 1974 in Hünsborn ) was a German Pallottine , retreat master and local writer .

Life

Honor roll for Father Friedrich Franzen SAC (1893–1974) honorary citizen of Ediger-Eller

After attending elementary school and receiving private lessons, he went to a grammar school in Limburg an der Lahn in March 1912 . His novitiate began on October 8, 1914, but he was called up for military service in the First World War on October 15, 1914 . Due to a war-related wound, he returned to the Limburg monastery in August 1917. He made his profession on January 3, 1920 and was ordained a priest on June 9, 1921 . From 1923 to 1925 he was both teacher and prefect in the Schoenstatt study center . At the same time, he studied German for 3 semesters in Bonn and then worked for 3 years in the Apostolic Movement .

In 1928 he was appointed rector of the study home in Frankenstein and in 1931 rector of the study home in Schoenstatt. He was also rector of the Pallottine Monastery in Olpe from 1934 until it was dissolved by the Gestapo in the summer of 1941. From there he was taken to Dortmund , where he had to spend 4 weeks in protective custody . After his release, he was expelled from Westphalia and returned to his home town of Ediger on the Moselle . From here he went to Vallendar shortly afterwards to resume his pastoral activities. After the end of the war he was able to return to Olpe in 1945, where he stayed until his death in 1974.

In addition to his pastoral work, as a retreat master, as a confessor and as a speaker at conferences, Franzen still found time to devote himself to writing. In particular, he wrote short biographies about his confreres or religious writings of the Mother of God, as well as several articles on local history. At the age of 82 Franzen died in the sister house in Hünsborn.

Honors

• 1973 Appointment as honorary citizen of Ediger on the occasion of his 80th birthday

Works and writings

• 1928: A struggling soul grows and matures , Verlag Limburg (Lahn)
• 1928: The Mission Society of the Pallottines , 2nd edition, Limburg an der Lahn
• 1930: Maria, the queen of the catholic action , publisher: Limburg, Ballottiner Verlag
• 1932: get to know Maria! Short e-mails , Breslau publishing house
• 1938: Brother Max, A Life in the Service of God , Limburg
• 1950: Maria, we greet you , Lahn-Verlag, 93 pp.
• 1950: Abbot Richard I. von Springiersbach (1107–1158) , Lahn-Verlag, 30 pp.
• 1952: The Kreuzkapelle near Ediger on the Moselle : its history compiled from sources, Limburg / Lahn, self-published, 31st p
• 1959: The foundation of the Schoenstatt Monastery , In: Heimatkalender für die Landkreis Koblenz, pp. 49–54
• 1959: Meine Mutter Bild , Lahn-Verlag, 145 p.
• 1959: Meine Mutter Bild , a little book on Marien, Lahn-Verlag, 145 pp.
• 1960: Times of need about Schoenstatt , In: Home calendar for the district of Koblenz, pp. 39–45
• 1961: The introduction of the Windesheim congregation in the Archbishopric Trier , In: Heimatkalender für den Landkreis Koblenz, pp. 27–63
• 1962: The monastery reform in Schoenstatt , In: Home calendar for the district of Koblenz, pp. 63–67
• 1963: History of the Ediger / Mosel parish , self-published by Olpe
• 1963: Funken in Moselschiefer , self-published, 88 pp.

literature

• Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Franzen, Friedrich , In: "Personalities of the Cochem-Zell District" , Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 110.
• Funken in Moselschiefer , In: Funken in Moselschiefer, by Leonhard Probst, Alice Krötz Probst, 2nd reprint, pp. 53–58

Web links

• Entry on Friedrich Franzen in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
• Father Friedrich Josef Franzen, The Gestapo attack on the Pallottine monastery in Olpe: June 19, 1941: People in the Resistance - Contemporary witness reports and documents, by Norbert Hannappel (ed.), Edition leutekirche sauerland 8, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7460- 3040-1, 379 p. In the Google book search

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Franzen, Friedrich PSM, The Mission Society of the Pallottines, 2nd edition, Limburg a. d. L. 1928, p. 3, In: Uni-Saarland (PDF)
2. ↑ Selected bibliography on the history of the unification of the Catholic apostolate in the German-speaking area Franzen Friedrich, Brother Max. A life in the service of God, Limburg 1938, p. 14, In: pthv.de ​​(PDF)
3. ↑ The freedom struggle of the Edigerer Volkssturm, sparks in the Moselschiefer, matinee on Pentecost Monday 2015, in: blick-current