Gerhard Maier (Abbot)

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Gerhard Maier (born November 13, 1855 in Steinberg , Württemberg; † May 20, 1926 in Lucerne ) was a German Cistercian and from 1903 to 1912 abbot of the parakeet monastery .

Life

Maier, who came from a farm in Württemberg, entered the Wettingen-Mehrerau Territorial Abbey shortly before completing his theology studies and became a priest in 1883. He then taught Latin and Greek at the Collegium Bernardi for a few years . In 1888 he was a member of the group of monks who restored the Marienstatt Abbey in the Westerwald , which had been secularized in 1803, from Mehrerau . There he headed the economic administration as cellarer until he was called back to Mehrerau as prior in 1895 .

As an experienced 'monastery founder' he was appointed prior of the Parakeet (Stična) monastery in Carniola , also re-established by Mehrerau, in 1898 and abbot there in 1903. Because of the internal and external difficulties (a German monastery in the Slovenian environment) there were disagreements between the Abbot and some confreres, so that Gerhard Maier resigned in May 1912. After his resignation, he stayed for some time in the Birnau Provost near Überlingen on Lake Constance and then returned to Mehrerau as a lecturer in theology. He died in 1926 as a chaplain in the Eschenbach monastery in Lucerne.

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