Helmut Josef Patt
Helmut Josef Patt (born July 23, 1926 in Flape near Kirchhundem ; † June 11, 2003 in Lippstadt ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman and head of the social institute Kommende Dortmund and director of the KAD .
Life
Patt was born in the Sauerland in 1926 . After graduating from high school in Attendorn , Patt was drafted into the Wehrmacht . Until 1946 he was a prisoner of war in Reims, France . After his return he first did an agricultural apprenticeship . In 1949 he began to study Catholic theology and Christian social sciences in Paderborn , Münster and the USA . In Münster, Patt became a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Sauerlandia Münster in the CV .
After completing his studies, Helmut Josef Patt started working as a social pedagogue at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster in 1958 : An attempt at a historical and systematic presentation of his social educational work. PhD with Joseph Höffner . He was ordained a priest on December 19, 1959 and initially worked as a vicar in Wiedenbrück and Batenhorst .
In 1961, Patt became director of the social institute Kommende Dortmund , the social institute of the Archdiocese of Paderborn . In a part-time position, Patt was district dean in the west of the Ruhr area and looked after 400,000 Catholics and 250 priests. In 1978 he took over as managing director of the Catholic Academic Work in Germany (KAD) and the management of the Academic Pastoral Office of the German Bishops' Conference in Bonn. Patt was also the initiator of the CV Academy and its first president.
Most recently, Patt was active as a subsidiary in Langeneicke , where she was entrusted with various pastoral and scientific work. After his retirement in 1992, Patt took over the management of adult education in the diocese of Dresden-Meißen and chaired the diocesan educational organization as a special commission .
Through his work at the social institute Kommende Dortmund and at the KAD, Patt had very close contact with the Catholic Church in the GDR . On the occasion of the Leipzig Book Fair, he provided the local working group pacem in terris with free spiritual writings under sometimes adventurous conditions , in particular to counteract the infiltration of Margot Honecker's Ministry of Education .
In 1970 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and invested in Cologne Cathedral on December 5, 1970 by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . He was most recently an officer of the order.
literature
- Anton Heinen, Helmut Josef Patt: Sense and Purposes in Upbringing and Education , Rheinischer Landwirtschafts-Verlag Bonn 1984
- Helmut Josef Patt: Christian anthropology as a perspective for medicine , Bachem Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7616-0835-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Helmut Josef Patt in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Patt, Helmut Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Roman Catholic clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Flape at Kirchhundem |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 2003 |
| Place of death | Lippstadt |