Hermann Cardauns

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Hermann Cardauns, 1902

Bernhard Hermann Cardauns (born August 8, 1847 in Cologne , † June 14, 1925 in Bonn , ± Melaten cemetery in Cologne) was a German Catholic historian , writer and journalist .

Education

After attending the Dreikönigsgymnasium in his hometown of Cologne and graduating from the Catholic Apostelgymnasium in 1864, Cardauns began studying history and classical philology at the University of Bonn in 1865 at the age of 17 . There he entered the K.St.V. Arminia and was on the board for three semesters , most recently as a senior in the winter semester of 1867/68 . In the winter semester of 1866/67 Cardauns moved temporarily to the University of Munich , where he was a member of the KStV Ottonia . Archive studies in Switzerland followed in 1867, and later complementary studies at the University of Göttingen . In 1868 he was in Bern with a dissertation on the Reformation doctorate and passed his philological State Examination. In 1870 he became a test candidate at the Marzelle High School in Cologne , but this failed.

College career

Therefore Cardauns was employed by the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1869 . In 1872 he qualified as a professor for medieval history in Bonn. As a lecturer in Bonn from 1873 to 1876, he had recognized success. One of the participants in his seminar exercises was Ludwig von Pastor , who later became the pope's biographer .

Journalistic work

Under the impression of the Kulturkampf , Cardauns calculated that there was little prospect of a professorship - his brother in the Arminia, Georg von Hertling , who had habilitated in the same year , had to wait 17 years for an appointment. Cardauns renounced the venia legendi and went from 1876 to 1907 as editor-in-chief of the Kölnische Volkszeitung , which subsequently became the leading Rhenish center newspaper . Cardauns was thus one of the leaders of the German day publicism . He took over the office in the midst of the most violent ecclesiastical political disputes when a responsible editor always had one foot in prison . His three sisters were expelled from the empire as religious women of the Sacré Coeur until they died .

Cardauns became known to the general public through the exposure of Léo Taxil as a con man, and later through his criticism of the writer Karl May . From 1901 Cardauns held public lectures on "literary curiosities", in which he went into great detail on Taxil and May. Cardauns took the first place among Karl May's enemy images during his lifetime. He had warned the public against May's travel reports, which were not based on what he had seen himself: “The writer was never in those distant lands that he described so vividly and colorfully.” In further essays, he attacked May because of his trials and allegedly “profoundly immoral “Spelling, who in turn responded most violently in public.

Writing work

In addition to daily journalism, Cardauns had further scientific and literary interests. He wrote several biographies of center politicians, commemorative publications about the Kölnische Volkszeitung, the Görresgesellschaft and the Kartellverband (KV). There are also local history works about Cologne and his autobiographical works.

Political and association activity

From 1894 to 1901 Cardauns served his hometown Cologne as a city ​​councilor , but refused to pursue a further political career. He was a co-founder of the Görres Society , had been in charge of the publication of the association's publications since 1885 and was secretary general from 1891–1913 . His achievements for the Catholic cause found deserved recognition when Cardauns became president of the 49th German Catholic Convention in Mannheim in 1902 .

Family grave in the Melaten cemetery

Family background

Cardauns was married and had seven (according to some sources: eight) children, including the son Ludwig Cardauns, who died as a company commander in World War I , and who is also a historian and post-doctorate at the University of Munich.

The chemist Ludwig Claisen is a cousin of Cardauns.

Hermann Cardauns died on June 14, 1925 and was buried in Cologne's Melaten cemetery (lit. B).

meaning

He was an "important head" ( Wilmont Haacke in the NDB ) and a " defensor fidei " (Karl Hoeber). He was the leading Catholic publicist of the Kulturkampf era. Karl May scolded him a " hyper-ultramontane editorial pope ".

The prelate Umberto Benigni , founder and 'spiritus rector' of the anti-modernist Catholic secret society Sodalitium Pianum , who worked in the Vatican , saw Cardauns as “a danger to German Catholicism”.

Works

Biographies

  • Konrad von Hochstaden. Archbishop of Cologne (1238–61). Cologne 1880.

Cologne local history

  • Stories from old Cologne. 1920.
  • Old stories from the Rhine.

Autobiographical works

Festschriften

  • The Görres Society 1876–1901.
  • Fifty years of the Kölnische Volkszeitung. 1910.
  • Fifty years of the Cartel Association (1863–1913). Festschrift for the golden jubilee of the Association of Catholic Student Associations in Germany. Kempten, Munich, 1913.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten - Cologne graves and history. Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 168.

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personal data
SURNAME Cardauns, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1925
Place of death Bonn