Heinrich Portmann

Heinrich Portmann (born October 5, 1905 in Bockum, today part of the Bockum-Hövel district , Hamm ; † April 30, 1961 in Münster ) was a German Roman Catholic priest of the Münster diocese , canon lawyer and author.

The son of a bricklayer laid in 1926 graduated from high school at the high school Hammonense in Hamm from. Then he began studying theology in Freiburg, where he became a member of the Catholic student union Unitas-Freiburg in 1928 , and finished it at his second place of study, Münster . He was ordained a priest on December 19, 1931, and was appointed chaplain of the Sacred Heart Congregation in Emsdetten on December 30, 1931.

From 1934 to 1937 he studied canon law with a doctorate in Rome . At the same time he worked there as a chaplain in the church of Santa Maria dell'Anima . After returning from Rome, he served as a chaplain at the German student dormitory in Münster until November 17, 1938 . On July 1, 1938, he took over the office of Defensor vinculi et Promotor iustitiae substitutus et subordinarius at the Episcopal Office in Münster. From November 17, 1938 to April 14, 1949 he was Episcopal Chaplain of Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen and Bishop Michael Keller , from April 14, 1949 Vice-Official at the Diocesan Court of Münster and was later appointed Papal Chamberlain . After the death of Cardinal von Galen in 1946, Portmann wrote his first book about him. He brought the first edition of his most famous publication on Galen in 1948 under the title Cardinal von Galen. A man of God in his time .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Portmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (ed.): Unitas manual . tape 5 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-87710-502-5 , p. 258 .
2. ^ Heinrich Portmann: The Bishop of Münster - The Echo of a Struggle for the Right to God and Human Rights, Verlag Aschendorff, Münster (Westf.) 1946.