Friedrich Gustav Piffl

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Friedrich Gustav Cardinal Piffl CanReg (born October 15, 1864 in Landskron , Crown Land of Bohemia , Austria-Hungary , † April 21, 1932 in Vienna ) was Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna .

Painting by Tom von Dreger
Cardinal Piffl's coat of arms

Life

Friedrich Gustav Piffl was the youngest of seven children of the bookseller Rudolf Piffl and his wife Maria Magdalena geb. Piro. He began studying at the grammar school in Landskron in 1874, interrupted it for an apprenticeship as a bookbinder and completed his grammar school studies in Vienna . He served as a one-year volunteer in the military and entered Klosterneuburg Abbey in 1883 , where he was given the religious name Friedrich . He was ordained priest on January 8, 1888 in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna and was then a cooperator in Floridsdorf and Heiligenstadt .

In 1892 he was appointed professor of moral theology and sociology , in 1906 director of the Klosterneuburg monastery, and in 1907 unanimously elected provost .

On April 1, 1913, he was Emperor Franz Josef was appointed archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna and received on June 1 in the abbey church of Klosterneuburg by Raffaele Cardinal Scapinelli Di Leguigno , the nuncio in Austria-Hungary, the episcopal ordination ; Co-consecrators were the auxiliary bishops of the diocese of Vienna Hermann Zschokke and Josef Pfluger . On May 25, 1914, Pope Pius X accepted him as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Marco in the college of cardinals .

After the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy Austria-Hungary and the proclamation of the Republic of German-Austria , he gave up the title of Prince Archbishop in 1918 . From May 18, 1922, he was also Apostolic Administrator of Burgenland .

After the First World War, he tried to reorganize pastoral care and promoted the Kolping Society and Caritas :

When Piffl died, he was buried at his own request in the local cemetery of Kranichberg in the Bucklige Welt, where the summer residence of the Archbishops of Vienna was located. It was not until 1954 that it was transferred to the bishop's crypt in St. Stephen's Cathedral.

He was a member of the Catholic student associations KaV Norica Wien, K.Ö.HV Nordgau Wien and KHV Welfia Klosterneuburg in the ÖCV .

He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Leopold Order .

In 1946 the Kardinal-Piffl-Gasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him.

literature

  • Rudolf Hellmer: Archbishop Cardinal Dr. Piffl. The prince of the princely time. Publicitas, Vienna 1931.
  • August Maria Knoll : Cardinal Fr. G. Piffl and the Austrian episcopate on social and cultural issues. 1913-1932. Source collection. Reinhold, Vienna / Leipzig 1932.
  • Ernst Tomek: Church history of Austria. Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich 1935–1959.
  • Josef Vodka: Church in Austria. Guide through their history. Herder, Vienna 1959.
  • Franz Loidl : History of the Archdiocese of Vienna. Herold, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7008-0223-4 .
  • Martin Krexner: Cardinal Friedrich Gustav Piffl. Biography of a people's bishop and his time. Church life in the Archdiocese of Vienna 1913–1932. Vienna 1987 (dissertation, University of Vienna, 1987).
  • Hellmut Butterweck : Austria's Cardinals. From Anton Gruscha to Christoph Schönborn. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-8000-3764-5 .
Lexica entries

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Gustav Piffl  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Archbishops' summer residence is being sold on ORF from June 28, 2017, accessed on December 5, 2018
  2. ↑ Kardinal-Piffl-Gasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Piffl, Friedrich Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piffl, Friedrich Gustav Cardinal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cardinal and archbishop of Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Landskron , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1932
Place of death Vienna