Hilarius Albers

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P. Hilarius M. Albers, 1954

Hilarius M. Albers O.P. (bourgeois Theodor Wilhelm Albers; born October 30, 1899 in Essen , Grand Duchy of Oldenburg , † February 14, 1971 in Berlin ) was a German Dominican priest and papal envoy . He worked u. a. as missionary and academic director in China and Japan, Provincial of the Dominicans in Ecuador and Germany, and as Ordinary and Extraordinary Apostolic Visitator in Colombia , Asia , America and Germany.

Life

youth

Hilary ( "Willy") Albers grew up as the second son among the ten children of Joseph Bernard and Hermione Theodora Albers in the Roman Catholic dominated Oldenburger Münsterland on. He had to interrupt his school days at the College of St. Thomas the Dominicans in Vechta in 1917 when he entered the First World War . Towards the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the French in Reims . His diplomatic and linguistic talent was already evident here when, at the age of 20, he acted as an interpreter between French and Germans. After returning to southern Oldenburg, Albers made up his Abitur at the Antonianum state high school in Vechta in 1921 .

Church career

Studied in Germany, Spain and the Philippines, missionary and academic rector in the Far East

Albers entered the Dominican Order on September 23, 1921 in Venlo ( Netherlands ) and was given the name Frater Hilarius (Latin for 'the cheerful'). Three years of philosophy studies followed in Düsseldorf , where he took his religious vows in 1925 . In 1929 he completed several years of study at the San Estéban Theological Faculty in Salamanca / Spain as a lecturer in philosophy and theology . He was ordained a priest here in 1927 . After preparatory courses in Würzburg (medicine) and at the University of Berlin (Chinese language), he initially went to Fujian / China as a missionary in 1930, but soon continued his studies at the Pontifical and Royal University in Manila / Philippines in the subject of history. In the following years he was responsible for the missions of Indochina and Japan as the order's visitor . In 1937 the Vatican Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith appointed him director of the Fujian Province Central Seminary. He ran this college for twelve years, u. a. through the two Japanese occupations and the Chinese civil war . Albers managed to evacuate all the students to Hong Kong before the Communists forcibly closed the institute in 1949.

Provincial in Ecuador and Germany, Ordinary and Extraordinary Apostolic Visitator

Forced to Europe returned Albers served as deputy director temporarily the Seminary of Theology at the Angelicum in Rome before 1950 by his general of the order until the Visitor of the Province of the Order appointed Ecuador and 1951 by the provincial chapter in Quito was elected its Provincial. In 1955 he entered the immediate service of the Holy See for three years when Pope Pius XII. appointed him his visitor for the seminaries in Colombia and the Vincentian Sisters in Asia and America. In 1958, as a provincial superior, he took over the management of the North German Dominican Province (Teutonia), based in Cologne, as a direct successor to P. Brachthäuser . After this term of office, in which u. a. the Bolivian mission was taken over and the branch was established in Munster, he went to Ecuador again in 1962 as a provincial. During this time, Pope Paul VI appointed him extraordinary Apostolic Envoy for the Schoenstatt Movement . In this diplomatic and advisory mission at the beginning of 1964, Albers played a key role in the papal rehabilitation of Father Josef Kentenich and his return to Germany from his US exile .

Last years

Hilarius Albers lived in his final years in the Dominican monastery of St. Paul in West Berlin and died there on February 14, 1971 of the consequences of a heart attack. His grave is in the St. Sebastian Cemetery in Berlin-Reinickendorf .  

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Dominicans in Germany. Retrieved September 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Regnum on the Net, p. 88. (PDF) Retrieved on December 20, 2017 .
  3. ↑ The Berlin Schoenstatt Movement celebrated ninety years of existence. Retrieved September 17, 2017 .

literature

  • Father Hilarius Albers. In: Willi Baumann, Peter Sieve (Hrsg.): The Catholic clergy in the Oldenburger Land. dialogverlag, Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-937961-32-3 .
  • J. Salvador y Conde OP: Apostolado de la Provincia de España en America 1860-2003, Editorial San Esteban, Salamanca 2004, ISBN 84-8260-150-4 .
  • Lehmkuhl: Father Hilarius Albers OP. A restless life in the service of the universal Church. In: Church and Life (Oldenburg), No. 9, 1971.
  • Oldenburger - Provincial of the Dominicans. Father Hilarius Albers from Essen was elected by the provincial chapter. In: Münsterländische Tageszeitung, Cloppenburg, No. 275, November 28, 1958

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personal data
SURNAME Albers, Hilarius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albers, Theodor Wilhelm (maiden name); Albers, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Dominican priest
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1971
Place of death Berlin