Heinrich Giese

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Father Heinrich Giese SVD (born October 1, 1863 in Voßwinkel ; † June 19, 1937 in Mödling near Vienna ) was court counselor in Vienna and confessor of Emperor Franz Joseph I , reformer of teacher training in Austria, founder of homes for girls and children, Vice-President of the “Austrian Caritas Association”, President of the Caritas Association of the Archdiocese of Vienna .

Life

Heinrich Giese was the son of the miller and fruit trader Kaspar Heinrich Giese (* 1837 in Voßwinkel, today Arnsberg) and Anna Maria Wimhöfer (* 1845 in Müschede , today Arnsberg).

In October 1880 Heinrich Giese entered the mission order " Society of the Divine Word " as a missionary student , which was founded by Father Arnold Janssen in 1875 in Steyl . Heinrich Giese was ordained a priest on July 23, 1889. In November of the same year he began to study at Minerva , the Dominican University in Rome. When he acquired the venia docendi there in July 1891 , the order appointed him professor of theology in the priestly training of the Steyler missionaries in the St. Gabriel Missionary House near Vienna, where he initially taught dogmatics and all other theological subjects.

In 1904 Heinrich Giese was appointed director of the Catholic private teacher training institute in Vienna and in May 1919 he was appointed as a recognized school specialist to the Vienna City School Board. In 1929 Heinrich Giese was awarded the title of court councilor and appointed consistorial councilor.

When he was seventy, the Federal President awarded him the Officer's Cross of the Austrian Order of Merit . On the ecclesiastical side, he was appointed to the diocesan school board and the examination committee for elementary and secondary schools. He became head of a section of the Catholic Charity Association for Lower Austria, later Vice President of the "Austrian Caritas Association" and, after a reorganization of the Catholic association, first President of the Caritas Association for the Archdiocese of Vienna .

Others

Commemorative plaque on the teacher training institute of the Marianists in Michaelerstrasse, formerly Giesestrasse

In Vienna, Währing district , a street was named after Heinrich Giese, Giesestrasse. The street only had this name in the years 1937 and 1938, before and after the renaming the street was (was) called Michaelerstraße .

literature

  • De Suerlaender home calendar: Dr. Heinrich Giese - Sauerlander as Hofrat in Vienna , p. 15, 1966
  • Alma Motzko: P. Heinrich Giese - A picture of life . Mission print shop St. Gabriel, Mödling
  • Article about Heinrich Giese in Müscheder Blätter . No. 12/1993 (PDF file; 498 kB)
  • Fritz Bornemann: Heinrich Giese 1907 , in: F. Bornemann: Späte Auslese. Four essays , Analecta SVD - 48, Apud Collgeium Verbi Divini: Romae 1879, 31-35.
  • P. Alfons Jochum SVD: P. Heinrich Giese. The great schoolboy , in: Festschrift 100 years Missionshaus St. Gabriel 1889-1989 , Verlag St. Gabriel: Mödling, 47-48.
  • Josef Alt SVD: The History of the Mission House Saint Gabriel of the Society of the Divine Word. The 1st century , Verlag St. Gabriel: Mödling 1990, 431 pages, ISBN 3-85264-350-3 .
  • Index Defunctorum Societatis Verbi Divini 1875-2010. Supplementum Catalogi SVD, Apud Curiam Generalitiam SVD, Romae 2011, p. 38 [1] (PDF; 1.2 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the address database of the City of Vienna's magistrate from February 3, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Giese, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giese, P. Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Councilor in Vienna and confessor of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnsberg-Vosswinkel
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1937
Place of death Mödling near Vienna