Gregor Poeck

Abbot Gregor around 1940

Gregor Pöck O.Cist. (* February 24, 1862 in Wiener Neustadt ; † April 18, 1945 in Heiligenkreuz ) was the 63rd abbot of Heiligenkreuz Abbey near Vienna .

Life

Gregor Pöck was born in Wiener Neustadt as Karl Pöck, attended grammar school there and was dressed as a novice on August 24, 1881 in Heiligenkreuz . On August 15, 1886, he celebrated his primary school and was awarded Dr. theol. PhD . His duties at the monastery were initially of a scientific nature. In 1892 he became a librarian and professor for Thomistic philosophy at the theological home school of the monastery . He also served as prefect of clergy until he was elected abbot on July 24, 1902. The blessing he received on August 20, 1902 by Bishop Schneider .

In 1915 Abbot Gregor Pöck became vicar general of the Austro-Hungarian Cistercian Congregation . After the longest reign of all Heiligenkreuz abbots, he died in the last days of World War II because he had gone to the cold collegiate church at the age of 83 to protect women from the Heiligenkreuz community from Soviet troops. The cold that followed brought him death. He was buried in the collegiate church, as a burial in the abbots' vault of the local cemetery was not possible due to the occupation.

In 1912 he became an honorary member of the Catholic student association K.Ö.HV Franco-Bavaria Vienna in the ÖCV . A street in Heiligenkreuz is named after him.

Abbot Gregor Pöck's coat of arms, depicted on his tombstone in the Heiligenkreuzer Stiftskirche

Fonts

• The chapel of the dead in the Heiligenkreuz Abbey. Reprint from the communications of the kk Central Commission for Monument Preservation 12 (1913), pp. 1–9.
• Memories of the Mayerling tragedy. In: Reichspost (Vienna, Jan. 30, 1920).
• The “Lower Dormitory” in the Heiligenkreuz Abbey. In: Deutsche Kunst und Denkmalpflege (1935), pp. 186–188.
• A newly discovered Romanesque portal of the collegiate church in Heiligenkreuz. In: Die Denkmalpflege (1932), pp. 175–177.

literature

• H. Watzl:  Pöck Gregor (Karl). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 139 f. (Direct links on p. 139 , p. 140 ).

Obituaries

• Cistercienser Chronik 54 (1947), pp. 181-182.
• Sancta Crux 12 (1949), pp. 2-3.

Web links

Commons : Gregor Pöck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry to Gregor Pöck on medal online
• Gregor Pöck in the Biographia Cisterciensis

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich Grünbeck	Abbot of Heiligenkreuz Abbey 1902–1945	Karl Braunstorfer