Johann Baptist Schauer

Johann Baptist Schauer (born June 5, 1872 in Lindach , Palling parish ; † September 15, 1942 in Munich ) was a German Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

Life

Schauer went from 1884 in Scheyern to school, put his high school diploma in 1891 at the Freisinger grammar school, studied at the German College and the Gregorian University in Rome theology and was ordained on 28 October 1897 in Rome as a priest for the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. He held his first mass in San Ignazio at the Aloisius Altar. After completing his doctorate, he returned from Rome on May 5, 1898, and worked as a chaplain in Munich-Neuhausen from July 14, 1898. From July 19, 1899 he worked as a beneficiary and provisional preacher at St. Peter .

Diözesanmuseum Freising (closed since 2013), former building of the former boys' seminary

Diözesanmuseum Freising, former seminary for boys

Former Prince-Bishop's residence , then clerical seminary, today Cardinal Döpfner House

After his parish court examination (second service examination), he took over the task of director (inspector) of the boys' seminar in Freising from September 1, 1902 , from August 1 that of the director of the diocesan clerical seminary in Freising, and at the same time that of a professor of pastoral theology and education at the royal Lyceum in Freising.

On July 13, 1928 he was appointed auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and titular bishop of Sabadia . He was Michael Faulhaber , John Leo of marl (Bishop of Eichstaett) and Michael Buchberger (Bishop of Regensburg) on 29 September 1928 in Freising the bishop consecrated.

On August 10, 1930, Schauer gave Chrysostomus Schmid OSB († 1962), Mission Benedictine and second Archabbot of the Archabbey of St. Ottilien 1930–1957, the Benediction as abbot .

Pius XI. appointed showers as successor to the late 1933 provost Matthias Dunstmair on June 9, 1933 provost, that the director of the Munich cathedral chapter.

In 1936 he represented the seriously ill Passau diocesan bishop Sigismund Felix Freiherr von Ow-Felldorf , who died soon afterwards, at the priestly ordination of that year for the diocese of Passau .

Johann B. Schauer suffered a stroke on September 15, 1942 in Munich Central Station. He was buried on September 18 in the chapter crypt of Munich Cathedral.

Publications (in selection)

• The old picture of the cathedral in Freising . A question of generous artistic care in Bavaria , in: Bayerische Staatszeitung , No. 177, from May 20, 1922.
• Ceremonial speech, in: 100 years of the Archbishop's Clerical Seminar Freising , Freising 1924, pp. 16–29.
• (Ed.), The homiletic course 1927 , Munich: Kösel & Pustet, 1927.
• Sermon and Catechism - Sermon and Liturgy , in: Johannes B. Schauer (Hrsg.), Der homiletic course 1927 , Munich 1927.
• The pastoral care clergy of the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising in its numerical addition and development 1921-1935 , in: Erntegaben (= Festschrift for Michael Faulhaber ).

literature

• Hans-Jörg Nesner: The Metropolitan Chapter of Munich (since 1821). In: Georg Schwaiger (Ed.): Monachium Sacrum. Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the Metropolitan Church of Our Lady in Munich . Volume I, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-422-06116-9 , pp. 475-613, here pp. 498-499.
• Thomas Forstner, priest in times of upheaval: Identity and lifeworld of the Catholic ... Here p. 61, note 123, on the background of the concordat law of the appointment (among other things) Schauer as cathedral chapter

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry to Schmid, Chrysostomus on order online
2. ↑ 70 years of priest-Max Thurnreiter
3. ↑ Forstner, Priester in times of upheaval, p. 61, note 123 available online

Web links

• Entry on Johann Baptist Schauer on catholic-hierarchy.org
• The Archdiocese of Munich and Freising 1940