Georg Schwarz (clergyman)

Georg Schwarz SDB , also George Schwarz , (born October 31, 1914 in Landshut , † August 10, 2010 in Makati City , Metro Manila , Philippines ) was a German religious and university professor.

Life

Georg Schwarz was a priest of the Order of the Salesians of Don Bosco , who served 19 years of his life in China and 56 years in the Philippines. He began his novitiate with the Salesians in Ensdorf in 1931 and took his first religious vows there in 1932.

In 1934, at the age of 20, he was sent to China as a missionary at his own request, where he stayed until 1953. In addition to theology, he also studied physics and chemistry in China, in which he also wrote his dissertations. On September 29, 1940 he received in Shanghai the priesthood . During and after his studies he worked in an orphanage and a hospital in China. In addition, he taught and looked after German and Austrian emigrants on behalf of the bishop during the war years. From 1948 to 1953 he was director of a Salesian school in Suchow. After the founding of the People's Republic of China , which was proclaimed by Mao Zedong on October 1, 1949 , all foreigners were expelled from China in 1953. Black had to leave everything behind and left the country in a night and fog.

He initially returned to Landshut, where he celebrated his home prime in 1953, but then went back to Asia in 1954. This time to the Philippines, where he was to stay until his death in 2010. From 1954 to 1956 he was director of studies in a Don Bosco facility on the island of Negros. From 1956 to 1964 he spent in Tarlac on the island of Luzon, where he was also rector from 1961 . From 1964 to 1967 he was rector of the Don Bosco Technical College Mandaluyong (DBTC) and professor of mathematics and physics at the Technical University of the Salesians Don Bosco (Don Bosco College, Canlubang) in Canlubang , Metro Manila . 1967–1973 he returned to Tarlac as director, then 1973–1976 to Makati in Manila. From 1976 to 2008 his home was the Don Bosco Center in Canlubang. He taught well into old age and then became a Spiritualist at Don Bosco College Seminary in Calamba City , Laguna.

Throughout his life he managed to combine his great love for children and young people with his great love for the natural sciences. In Canlubang he built a remarkable laboratory and, in addition to his normal teaching and pastoral activities, he trained over 40,000 teachers in science courses across the Philippines. In addition, he published scientific notebooks entitled "Science for you". Shaped by the war years in China, in which he was faced with the challenge of teaching science without adequate material, he developed a fascinating creativity in this area. His specialty was the use of simple, local material (various waste products: cardboard, empty toothpaste tubes, plastics, etc.) in order to tinker with experiments and to convey physics and chemistry. With these methods he showed many Filipino teachers in mainly public schools that excellent science lessons are possible even with limited resources. For these services he received several awards from the Philippine government. In addition to these tasks, Georg Schwarz collected donations over the years for the construction of the Salesian Schools in the Philippines and for his scientific projects. Supported by his family in Germany, he was always in contact with the German donors whom he was able to win on his rare visits to Germany.

Until his death, Schwarz wrote his letters home in the Bavarian dialect . He spoke eight languages: German, Latin and ancient Greek (compulsory languages ​​of a priest), Italian (religious language of the Salesians Don Bosco), French (studied at a French-speaking Jesuit university), Mandarin and Cantonese (two Chinese languages) and English (Philippines).

Georg Schwarz gave its name to the Schwarz Futbol Club . In addition, the Father George Schwarz Innovation Center became . of Don Bosco Technical College in Mandaluyong City named after him. He died at the age of 95 as the oldest Salesian of Don Bosco from Germany and is buried in Canlubang in the Philippines.

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Father Georg Schwarz is dead" , Chiemgau online, August 13, 2010
2. ^ "SCHWARZ Futbol Club" , Facebook, accessed on August 29, 2010
3. ↑ "Father George Schwarz Innovation Center" ( memento of the original from July 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Don Bosco Technical College Mandaluyong homepage, accessed June 13, 2013