Hugo Kleinbrod

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Hugo Kleinbrod (born September 19, 1910 in Dornbirn ; † April 27, 1970 in Bregenz ) was a Catholic priest in Vorarlberg and founder of the Vorarlberg Children's Village .

Life

Hugo Kleinbrod attended grammar school in Bregenz from 1924 to 1932. He then graduated from the Federal High School in Gallusstrasse. After studying theology in Innsbruck and at the seminary in Brixen, Deacon Kleinbrod was ordained a priest on June 29, 1936 by Bishop Sigismund Waitz . From November 1937 he was a parish assistant in Lustenau , first in the parish of St. Peter and Paul, and from October 1, 1940 in the newly founded parish of the Redeemer.

Contemporary witnesses describe Hugo Kleinbrod as energetic, self-sacrificing and charismatic. As early as the summer of 1939, he organized a holiday camp for Lustenau children in Buchboden , and in the following two years, despite strict bans by the National Socialists, other secret camps took place in Schönenbach . After these activities were exposed , Kleinbrod was imprisoned by the Gestapo for four weeks in 1941 for “strongly influencing the youth” . In autumn 1941 he was finally drafted into the Navy.

When he returned from captivity after the Second World War , he looked after poor children and orphans. From 1946 he again organized holiday camps in Schönenbach and finally founded the “Kinderdorf Vorarlberg” on January 13, 1951 in Au-Rehmen in the Bregenzerwald , which was renamed “Vorarlberger Kinderdorf” in 1991.

Hugo Kleinbrod, who had worked as curate in Au-Rehmen from 1962 , was transferred from the diocese to Viktorsberg by decree in 1965 . He held this office as a parish provisional until his death. He died on April 27, 1970 in the Mehrerau sanatorium in Bregenz .

The Hugo Kleinbrod Chapel, built in the Planet Pure Stadium in Lustenau in 2007, is dedicated to the former parish assistant Hugo Kleinbrod.

  • Vacation home Schönenbach

  • Kleinbrod Chapel (in the Planet Pure Stadium Lustenau)

  • Tomb

  • Purchase of the old mill (laying of the foundation stone for the Vorarlberg children's village)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Albrich: Hugo Kleinbrod in the Dornbirn Lexicon of the Dornbirn City Archives .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Scheffknecht: 100 years market town Lustenau . Lustenau 2003, ISBN 3-900954-06-2 , pp. 248 .
personal data
SURNAME Kleinbrod, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chaplain
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornbirn
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1970
Place of death Sanatorium Mehrerau, Bregenz