Jakob Alfons Holl

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Jakob Alfons Holl , called Jakob Holl (born April 15, 1905 in Düsseldorf , † July 9, 1966 in Cologne-Brück ) was a German Catholic priest and writer . His stage name Jan Klas Bollhoof consisted of changing the letters of his full name.

Life

As a student at the seminary Bensberg he was on 12 February 1931 in Cologne as a priest ordained . He worked as a chaplain from March 23, 1931 in Herz Jesu Leverkusen-Wiesdorf and from March 2, 1936 in St. Peter Düsseldorf . From February 9, 1940 to March 31, 1955 he was pastor in Moitzfeld . On March 22, 1955, Cardinal Joseph Frings appointed him director of the television station for the dioceses in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Services

In Moitzfeld there was a dilapidated wooden church from the 1920s that would have had to be extensively renovated after the Second World War . Holl thought it better to build a new church. He cleared up the difficulties that had arisen for this project, had a piece of land given to him, encouraged the villagers to help and raised money. The excavation work for the Church of St. Joseph (Moitzfeld) began by hand on May 27, 1946 . The new church was consecrated on December 17, 1950, but it was still a building site.

It is significant for the history of the Misereor Episcopal Relief that Holl wrote a letter to Joseph Teusch , Vicar General of the Archbishop of Cologne on April 24, 1958 , in which he responded to an article he had written with the heading “We have dogs better ”, which had appeared in the Cologne church newspaper the day before. It was a travel report from Holl about his trip to Asia, during which he also visited Mother Teresa in Calcutta . In it he reported on the hard work of the sisters and added touching, self-made photos of the poverty of children in India . Holl describes, among other things, how Mother Teresa cared for the dying in her temple, which was donated by the city, and lovingly accompanied them until death. He also reports how two people died in his own lap. Teusch then informed Josef Cardinal Frings , who took this as an opportunity to speak about it at the 1958 Fulda Bishops' Conference . The bishops then unanimously decided to found Misereor. At the same time, Holl organized a collection of donations under the title Rice for Calcutta about the papal work to spread the faith in Aachen , which brought in half a million DM.

In 1961 he founded the Die Gute Hand foundation . His aim was to help children who are at risk and disadvantaged. Unfortunately, he did not live to see the opening of the special educational children's village in Biesfeld and the special school for educational assistance (today the support school Die Gute Hand) in 1968.

Awards

Works

Under his pseudonym Jan Klas Bollhoof he wrote the following books:

  • Aphorisms , Herder Druck, Freiburg im Breisgau 1964
  • Sentences , Herder Druck, Freiburg im Breisgau 1965
  • Marginalia , Verlag Ernst Kaufmann, Lahr (Black Forest), 1966

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death note for Monsignor Jakob Holl, Maria Laach No. 7826
  2. ^ Herbert Stahl : Moitzfeld, Through life, through the year "om Platz" , Bergisch Gladbach 2009, ISBN 3-932326-56-3 , p. 41 ff.
  3. ^ Norbert Trippen: Josef Cardinal Frings (1887-1978). Volume 2: His work for the universal Church and his final bishopric years. (Publications of the Commission for Contemporary History, Series B: Research, Volume 104). Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-71345-0 , p. 106 ff.
  4. ↑ Ursula Schmidt-Goertz: Help for Children's Souls - It began in the children's village , in: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 2008, pp. 87 ff., ISBN 978-3-87314-429-3 , ISSN  0722-7671
  5. ↑ Chronicle of the Die Gute Hand Foundation, accessed on May 23, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Holl, Jakob Alfons
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jan Klas Bollhoof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic priest
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1966
Place of death Cologne-Brück