Hans Milk

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Hans Milch (* March 17, 1924 in Wiesbaden ; † August 8, 1987 ibid) was a German priest , representative of Catholic traditionalism and founder of the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre related actio spes unica , the authoritative standpoints and reforms of the Second Vatican Council as with the considered incompatible with the Catholic faith.

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Johannes Philipp Milch was born in 1924 as the youngest of three children of a Protestant family. His father was a lawyer and notary in Wiesbaden, his mother came from the Koblenz area. After attending the humanistic Gutenberg High School in his hometown, Hans Milch passed his Abitur exam there, was drafted into military service in 1942 and deployed on the southern front in Italy during World War II. From March 1945 to November 1946 he was an American prisoner of war in France, where he met a priest with whom he had intensive theological discussions. On April 17, 1946 , Hans Milch converted to the Catholic Church.

In 1947 he began studying philosophy and theology at the St. Georgen Jesuit College in Frankfurt am Main. He was ordained priest on March 8, 1953 in Limburg Cathedral . First he worked as a chaplain in Lorch am Rhein, from 1954 in Rennerod in the Westerwald and finally from 1957 in the cathedral in Frankfurt am Main . On January 6, 1962, he was introduced to the office of pastor of Hattersheim am Main , which he held until October 18, 1979. At the beginning of April 1962 he was accepted into the CV of the Catholic student union Greiffenstein-Breslau in Frankfurt am Main on an honorary basis . After his impeachment, he built the St. Athanasius Chapel in Hattersheim.

On August 8, 1987, Milch was murdered in his Wiesbaden apartment by the mentally confused Luigi Zito, whom Hans Milch was taking care of. Pastor Milch's remains were buried on August 17th in the presence of over 1,000 believers in the Wiesbaden North Cemetery.

The actio spes unica

The actio spes unica was founded on February 8, 1977 as a “community of struggle and atonement” by Pastor Hans Milch.

This was preceded by the foundation of the "Movement for the Pope and Church" in 1969, which Hans Milch brought into being together with Walter Hoeres and Fritz Feuling from Mannheim. At the end of the 1960s, Milch was of the opinion that the Second Vatican Council had passed “valid texts” that were deliberately misunderstood and misused by so-called “modernists”. In the period that followed, this view was largely limited to a few small groups.

Believing God for by the collapse of the " modernism having to make inflicted" in the Catholic Church insults representative atonement, Hans milk founded in 1972, the prayer and expiation Community spes unica whose members through a vow committed daily for pray for the salvation of the Church, offer a prayer to the Archangel Michael , and fast every Friday. After just two years, Hans Milch opened the spes unica to people who wanted to belong to the community without having to commit to a vow. In the same year, 1974, he made contact with the Priestly Society of St. Pius X , founded in Ecône by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1970 , and advocated the expansion of its activities to Germany.

From the mid-1970s onwards, Milch increasingly emphasized in his utterances that the Council was not an innocent neuter towards the “progressist catastrophe”, as he wrote in a circular to the spes-unica members in March 1977 , that it was rather between the assumed decline of the “ Appearance of the Church ”and the decisions of the Second Vatican Council are closely related. In a circular dated October 21, 1976, he therefore addressed a question to the members of the Movement for the Pope and the Church to find out how many shared this conviction. After around 60 percent expressed their approval, Hans Milch united the two groups on February 8, 1977 to form actio spes unica .

Pastor Milch's suspension

Hans Milch's continued public criticism of the bishops and the ever closer rapprochement with the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre , who was suspended in 1976, resulted in the conflict with the then diocesan bishop of Limburg, Wilhelm Kempf , escalating from late 1978 . After Milch had unreservedly supported Lefebvre's positions in a circular on July 22, 1979 , Bishop Kempf suspended Milch on October 18, 1979.

On December 5, 1981, the foundation stone for the St. Athanasius Chapel in Hattersheim was laid. The chapel was consecrated on October 24, 1982 by Archbishop Lefebvre.

Milk and its work after death

The vicar general of the Episcopal Ordinariate in Limburg, Raban Tilman, wrote in an obituary: "It is with sadness that the diocese presbytery bids farewell to its confrere with whom an understanding was no longer possible."

After the death of Hans Milch in 1987 taking care of the Athanasiusgemeinde went to the Society of St. Pius X. on. The actio spes unica endeavored to continue the work of its founder.

literature

  • Wolfgang Schüler: Pastor Hans Milch: a great voice of the Catholic faith; with a criticism of the Second Vatican Council . Two volumes, Actio Spes Unica, o. O. [Hattersheim] 2005, ISBN 3-934692-20-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ CV Secretariat (ed.): Complete directory of CV 1964, printed as a manuscript, Munich 1964, p. 218.
  2. ↑ Manfred Becht: The Catholic pastor Hans Milch was murdered 30 years ago. ( Memento from August 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Höchster Kreisblatt , August 9, 2017, accessed on August 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b The ritual murder in the rectory ( memento of July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Hamburger Abendblatt 184/1987, August 11, 1987, p. 18.
  4. ↑ Obituary for Prof. Dr. Walter Hoeres. Published on January 18, 2016, website of the campaign www.spes-unica , accessed on August 24, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Milk, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milk, Johannes Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian, founder of the actio spes unica
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1987
Place of death Wiesbaden