Hermann Klens
Hermann Klens (born September 21, 1880 in Niederhelden , † August 25, 1972 ibid) was a German Catholic clergyman and General Praeses of the Central Association of Women's and Mothers' Associations in Germany.
Origin and education
Hermann Klens received after studying philosophy and Catholic theology at the Theological Faculty of Paderborn on 14 April 1905 Great Cathedral in Paderborn by Bishop William Schneider , the ordination .
Act
On April 15, 1905, Klens was appointed chaplain at the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Dortmund . On April 17, 1915, Bishop Karl Joseph Schulte appointed him Diocesan Secretary of the Catholic Virgins' Associations in the Diocese of Paderborn , based in Bochum . On December 13 of the same year, Klens took over the office of General Secretary of the Central Association of Catholic Virgins' Associations in Bochum with the approval of his bishop . On January 1, 1923, he was promoted to its General Praeses. From 1928 until it was banned by the National Socialists on November 11, 1939, Klens was General Praeses of the Central Association of Women's and Mothers' Associations in Germany . During this time he came into conflict with the Gestapo on several occasions , which, in addition to interrogations, warnings and a conviction for distributing leaflets, culminated in a ban on further writing.
After the Second World War , the German bishops commissioned Klens as early as 1945 to set up the main church office for pastoral care for women in the German dioceses . In March 1947 he was one of the founders of the Bund der Deutschen Katholischen Jugend (BDKJ) in the Jugendhaus Kloster Hardehausen near Paderborn, together with Ludwig Wolker , and was the first federal president of the women's youth in the BDKJ until 1952. On Klens' initiative, the re-establishment of the Central Association of Women and Mothers in Germany went back in 1956 .
Honors
- Papal Chamberlain (April 11, 1930)
- Spiritual Council ad honores (April 18, 1940)
- Pontifical House Prelate (November 1, 1947)
- Federal Cross of Merit (1955)
- Dome of Honor in Paderborn (appointed on September 21, 1960 / invested on February 11, 1961 )
- Apostolic protonotary
Literature (selection)
- Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne, 23rd edition, Cologne 1933, p. 847.
- Lexicon for Theology and Church ³, Freiburg 1997, ISBN 3-451-22006-7 , Vol. 6, Sp. 130.
- Ingeborg Rocholl-Gärtner: Women's advocate - Hermann Klens - Life and Work , Düsseldorf 1978.
- Ulrich von Hehl : priest under Hitler's terror. A biographical and statistical survey . Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh 1996³, ISBN 3-506-79839-1 , Vol. II, Sp. 1182.
swell
- ↑ Augustinus Reineke: Youth between cross and swastika. Memories and experiences - events and documents. Paderborn 1987, ISBN 3-87088-513-0 , p. 31.
- ↑ Sauerlandruf. Journal of the Sauerländer Heimatbund, Volume 17, No. 2, October 1955, p. 63.
- ↑ Lexicon for Theology and Church ³, Freiburg 1997, ISBN 3-451-22006-7 , Vol. 6, Sp. 130.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Klens in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klens, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klens, Hermann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German clergyman and General Praeses of the Central Association of Women's and Mothers' Associations in Germany |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Low heroes |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1972 |
| Place of death | Low heroes |