Gereon Motyka

Father Gereon Motyka OPraem , originally Rudolf Motyka , (born November 18, 1892 in Gries im Sellrain , † June 2, 1969 in Bayreuth ) was canon of the Premonstratensian monastery in Teplá and prior of Speinshart Abbey .

Life

Motyka was born Rudolf Motyka on November 18, 1892 in Gries am Sellrain in Tyrol. On September 24, 1911, he joined the Premonstratensian Monastery of Tepl, as the family had in the meantime moved from Tyrol to Bohemia. Motyka chose the order name Gereon. On June 18, 1916, he was ordained a priest in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague .

Abbot Gilbert Helmer von Tepl, who was also the administrator of Speinshart, sent Gereon Motyka to the rebuilt Upper Palatinate monastery in 1923. From 1924 to 1932 and from 1934 to 1942 Motyka was Expositus in Oberbibrach. After Abbot Gilbert Helmer's death in 1944, Speinshart was again an independent abbey and Motyka was appointed prior . On March 1, 1945 he became the ruling prior and thus a prelate. After the war, the monastery superior was appointed trustee for the cemetery church in Auerbach and Michelfeld. As head of the Eschenbach Food Office, he took on one of the most difficult and ungrateful tasks of the post-war years. Until his death, Motyka was a local councilor for the CSU in Speinshart , a member of the district council and the district committee of the Eschenbach district and even deputy for a while. Prelate Motyka was considered the confessor of the then Bavarian Agriculture Minister Alois Hundhammer .

Honors

For his work, Prelate Gereon Motyka was made an honorary citizen by the parishes of Speinshart, Vorbach, Tremmersdorf and Oberbibrach. In 1963 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class . In addition, the Gereon Motyka settlement in Speinshart was named after him, for which he provided the monastery grounds.

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1. ^ Website with life data
2. ↑ Obituary for the 40th anniversary of death (PDF; 135 kB)