Jakob Weinbacher

Episcopal coat of arms of Jakob Weinbacher

Jakob Weinbacher (born December 20, 1901 in Vienna ; † June 15, 1985 ibid) was an Austrian Catholic clergyman and auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Vienna .

biography

Weinbacher was ordained a priest on July 20, 1924 in St. Stephen's Cathedral . In 1938 he, then archbishop secretary of Theodor Cardinal Innitzer , together with Franz Jáchym defended the Archbishop's Palace in Vienna against being stormed by thugs of the Hitler Youth ( rosary demonstration ). As a result, he was arrested several times. In 1940 he was interned in the Dachau concentration camp and subsequently received a “Gauverweis”: he had to go to the Carolus Abbey in Stettin in Pomerania-Mecklenburg for 22 months . After the end of the Second World War, he became the cathedral capitular at St. Stephen's Cathedral in 1945 and was head of Caritas Austria from 1947 to 1952 . From 1950 to 1952 he was vicar general in Vienna. As Apostolic Protonotary , Weinbacher was Rector of the Collegio Teutonico di Santa Maria dell'Anima from 1952 to 1961 and again Vicar General in Vienna from 1961 to 1969. From 1961 to 1977 he was secretary of the Austrian Bishops' Conference . He was president of the Vienna Catholic Academy.

Pope John XXIII appointed him titular bishop of Thala and appointed him auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Vienna. The Archbishop of Vienna, Franz Cardinal König , donated him his episcopal ordination on July 1, 1962 ; Co-consecrators were Archbishop Franz Jáchym, coadjutor of Vienna, and Josef Schoiswohl , Bishop of Graz-Seckau.

Weinbacher was the council father of all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council .

coat of arms

Weinbacher's bishop's coat of arms showed a golden wavy bar diagonally to the right, accompanied by a silver scallop shell above and below . Motto: PRO FIDE ET PRO JUSTITIA.

literature

• Franz Loidl : On the death of Auxiliary Bishop DDr Jakob Weinbacher 1985 (= Vienna Catholic Academy. Working Group for Church History and Vienna Diocesan History. Miscellanea. Series 3, No. 77, ZDB -ID 847207-5 ). Vienna Catholic Academy, Vienna 1985.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In memory of WB Dr. Jakob Weinbacher
2. ^ Franz Gall : Austrian heraldry. Handbook of coat of arms science. 2nd edition Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1992, p. 219, ISBN 3-205-05352-4 .

Web links

• Entry on Jakob Weinbacher on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Alois Hudal	Rector of the Roman Anima 1952–1961	Alois Stöger
Andreas Rohracher	Grand Prior of the Austrian Lieutenancy of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem 1967–1983	Gebhard Koberger CanReg