Heinrich von Soden-Fraunhofen

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Heinrich Sigmund Maria Rudolf Graf von Soden-Fraunhofen (born November 6, 1920 in Friedrichshafen , † July 23, 2000 in Engelsberg ) was Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Munich and Freising .

family

Heinrich von Soden-Fraunhofen came from the noble family of the Soden family . He was one of nine children from the marriage of Alfred Graf von Soden-Fraunhofen (1875–1944), the first managing director and from 1921 board member of ZF Friedrichshafen AG , and Mechtild Countess Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1878–1954), daughter of Heinrich Adelmann from Adelmannsfelden . His brother-in-law was the Bavarian Senate President , Hippolyt Freiherr Poschinger von Frauenau .

Life

Grave in the cloister courtyard of the Freising Cathedral

After the end of the war, Heinrich von Soden-Fraunhofen entered the Archbishop's seminary in Freising . On June 29, 1951 he received together with 42 other seminarians, including Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI. And Franz Xaver Schwarzenböck , by Cardinal Michael Faulhaber , the ordination . He was pastor in Oberwöhr near Rosenheim and provost in Landshut .

On January 3, 1972, Pope Paul VI appointed Heinrich von Soden-Fraunhofen as titular bishop of Belali and appointed him auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. On March 18, 1972, Julius Cardinal Döpfner donated to him in the Cathedral of St. Maria u. St. Korbinian in Freising was ordained a bishop ; Co- consecrators were Josef Stangl , Bishop of Würzburg , and Josef Stimpfle , Bishop of Augsburg . In 1993 his resignation was granted by Pope John Paul II for health reasons .

Heinrich von Soden-Fraunhofen was considered one of the "sharpest Engelwerk critics in the German episcopate".

Von Soden died in Engelsberg, Traunstein district, after a long and serious illness and was buried in the cloister courtyard of Freising Cathedral.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The" Bischof-Resi "turned 90" , chiemgau-online.de, August 16, 2010
  2. ↑ Gernot Facius: Bizarre "Engelwerk" celebrates recognition by the Pope , in: Die Welt from October 10, 2010.
predecessor Office successor
Johann Keller Provost of St. Martin (Landshut)
-1993 		Heinrich Fischer
personal data
SURNAME Soden-Fraunhofen, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soden-Fraunhofen, Heinrich Sigmund Maria Rudolf Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichshafen
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 2000
Place of death Engelsberg