Gerhard Gruber (theologian)

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Gerhard Gruber (born July 1, 1928 in Prien am Chiemsee ) is a Roman Catholic theologian , apostolic protonotary and, with almost 22 years in office, was the long-serving vicar general in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

Life

Gerhard Gruber was born in Prien am Chiemsee in 1928 . He joined in 1947 in the seminary in Freising and later studied in Rome, where he in Germanicum lived and at the Gregoriana the licentiate in philosophy earned. On October 10, 1953, he was ordained a priest in Rome by Clemente Micara . Gerhard Gruber then obtained a licentiate and doctorate in Catholic theology . After pastoral care in Munich, the new Archbishop Julius Cardinal Döpfner appointed him his personal secretary for Council matters. He accompanied the archbishop to all meetings of the Second Vatican Council . During this time Helmut Hempfer was secretary for the affairs of the archdiocese, together with Gruber, a close associate of Döpfner. Even after this time, Gruber was still Döpfner's advisor for Roman affairs. In 1968 he was appointed vicar general as successor to Matthias Defregger and held this office under the archbishops Joseph Ratzinger and Friedrich Wetter until 1990. From 1972 to 1998 he was a member of the Munich Metropolitan Chapter and from 1988 its dean .

During his work for the Archdiocese of Munich, he campaigned - together with Ernst Tewes and Bernhard Egger, in particular for the introduction of the professions of community clerk and pastoral clerk in 1969. He was involved in the initiation, development and expansion of city pastoral projects in the inner city of Munich, such as the establishment of the Munich island under Marienplatz and the open offer of the inner city church St. Michael (Munich) ( five to five ; church without antechamber ).

In connection with the case of Peter Hullermann , who, although convicted of sexual abuse, was transferred several times to the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, whereby he was still able to have contact with children, Gerhard Gruber took over responsibility for the failure of the leadership of the archdiocese in March 2010 whose vicar general he was in those years. From those around him, however, it was reported that he had been urged to assume sole responsibility in order to "take the then Archbishop of Munich, Joseph Ratzinger, out of the line of fire". He himself contradicted that.

He lived in Munich with his brother, the theologian, religious educator and pastor Elmar Gruber († September 10, 2011) until his death .

Works (in selection)

  • Zoä - essence, stages and messages of real life with Origen (also Diss. Rome 1962.) Munich 1962, ISBN 3-88096-223-5 .
  • Julius Cardinal Döpfner. ... on the way through time. Munich 1973.
  • (Ed.): In the succession of St. Korbinian . Julius Cardinal Döpfner 25 years bishop (= Festschrift Julius Döpfner), Munich 1974.
  • with Hermann Boventer , Leo Karrer , Josef Bommer a. a. (Ed.): Lay theologians in pastoral service - location determination and trends. (= Bensberger Protocols No. 17), Thomas-More-Akademie, Bensberg 1976.
  • with Friedrich Bauer : Church without an anteroom. Encounters with the Munich regional bishop Ernst Tewes , Planegg 1986, ISBN 3-921843-73-1 .
  • with Friedrich Bauer, Ehrenfried Schulz (ed.): One is your master: Christ. Sermons and spiritual speeches by Ernst Tewes , Munich 1993, ISBN 3-87904-147-4 .

Articles in collective works

  • Pastoral advisor, pastoral advisor in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. Some memories , in: Klemens Hellinger (Ed.), Markus John (Ed.), Spokesman's Council of Pastoral Assistants and Pastoral Referees in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising (Ed.), Vom Geist der Kirche added. 40 years of pastoral assistants and pastoral consultants in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, Munich 2011, pages 19–26.

Magazine articles

  • The Spirit of the Lord has sent me (LK 4,16-30), PUK , 145th year, 2006, issue 4, pp. 581-585.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Committed to the Council and pastoral care - Apostolic Protonotary Gerhard Gruber 80 years old - Vicar General under three Archbishops and Cardinals ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Report of the Council, from p. 48
  3. ↑ Beginnings of the profession «Pastoral consultants . Pastoralreferentenmuenchen.wordpress.com. March 30, 2010. Retrieved July 1, 2010.
  4. ↑ Doctor Asserts Church Ignored Abuse Warnings. In: The New York Times , March 18, 2010
  5. ↑ Abuse scandal in the church Pope should be "taken out of the line of fire". In: Spiegel Online , April 17, 2010 ( online )
  6. ↑ "Give a Chance", Süddeutsche Zeitung of April 21, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Gruber, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Prien am Chiemsee