Gerd Bachner

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Gerd Bachner, 2015

Gerd Bachner (born April 23, 1945 in Burgstädt ) is a German Catholic clergyman and was Provost of Cologne Cathedral from 2015 to 2020 .

Career

Gerd Bachner was in 1945 during the last days of the war in Saxony Burgstädt born while his parents from East Prussia fled. He spent his childhood in Delmenhorst and his youth in Düsseldorf . After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy and theology at the universities in Bonn , Cologne and Tübingen , where he also attended courses in dogmatics with Joseph Ratzinger . Between summer 1971 and spring 1972 he was a deacon at the Herz Jesu in Euskirchen.

With helmet: Figure on the cathedral lattice in front of the north portal reminds of Gerd Bachner's ascent to the cathedral

In 1972 Bachner was ordained a priest in Cologne Cathedral . Then he was chaplain for three years in the parish of St. Theodor in Cologne-Vingst as well as youth pastor in the dean's office Cologne-Deutz and deputy city youth pastor. In 1974 he became a member of the Archbishop's Council. For seven years he worked as a repetiteur at the Theologenkonvikt Collegium Albertinum in Bonn before he was elected director. He then spent twelve years at Regens at the seminary in Cologne. Between the summer of 1982 and the summer of 1983 he was a university pastor and mentor for lay theologians in Wuppertal. In 1986 Pope John Paul II awarded him the honorary title of a Papal Honorary Chaplain ( Monsignor ) and in 1996 the title of Papal Honorary Prelate . In 2001 he took over the management of the main school / college department in the Archbishop's General Vicariate. Since 2005 he has been the resident cathedral chapter in the Cologne cathedral chapter and was also deputy vicar general from 2005 to mid-2015.

In March 2015, the cathedral chapter announced that Gerd Bachner would take up the post of provost of Cologne as the successor to the retired Norbert Feldhoff . He also replaced his predecessor in 2015 as a member of the board of the Cologne Cathedral Cultural Foundation .

On September 4, 2015, Bachner, who is an experienced mountaineer, was (probably) the first Provost of Cologne to climb the more than 157-meter-high finial of Cologne Cathedral. A small, red painted figure with a mountaineering helmet that adorns the cathedral lattice in front of the north portal reminds of the incident.

Upon reaching the age of 75, Gerd Bachner resigned from the office of Provost on April 30, 2020.

Web links

Commons : Gerd Bachner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ report-k.de Editor: Dompropst Cologne: Prelate Gerd Bachner is Feldhoff's successor / Kölnaktuell Cologne // report-k.de - Cologne's Internet newspaper. In: report-k.de. March 4, 2015, accessed March 7, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c On the biography of the new Cologne cathedral provost Bachner - at home in Cologne for over 30 years. In: domradio.de. March 4, 2015, accessed September 2, 2015 .
  3. ^ Archdiocese of Cologne (ed.): New head of department for the Vicariate General . Cologne June 9, 2015 ( erzbistum-koeln.de [accessed August 18, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Kölnische Rundschau: Gerd Bachner on the cathedral: First Cologne cathedral provost climbed the finial. In: rundschau-online.de. September 4, 2015, accessed September 5, 2015 .
  5. ^ Domradio.de: Blessed by the former provost: new grille on Cologne Cathedral
  6. ↑ domradio.de: Cologne is getting a new cathedral provost. Farewell party for Gerd Bachner , January 31, 2020.
predecessor Office successor
Norbert Feldhoff Provost of Cologne Cathedral
2015 - 2020 		Guido Assmann
personal data
SURNAME Bachner, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and Provost of Cologne Cathedral
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgstädt