Johannes Heising

Johannes Alkuin Heising (* 1927 in Bad Driburg ) was a German Benedictine monk and second abbot of Michaelsberg Abbey after the resettlement.

Life

After his military service and imprisonment, Heising made up his Abitur, studied at the Pedagogical Academy in Paderborn and became a teacher in Bremen in 1952. In 1954 he entered the Benedictine Abbey of Siegburg and took the religious name Alcuin . He studied theology at the Papal Athenaeum of St. Anselmo in Rome, was ordained a priest in Cologne in 1959 and in 1962 as a Dr. theol. PhD. He then taught at the religious colleges in Hennef-Geistingen and Vallendar.

After the resignation of Abbot Ildefons Schulte Strathaus elected abbot in 1967, he retained the teaching activity to a limited extent. In the same year he introduced reforms in accordance with the Second Vatican Council , which he had previously worked out with the convent. In December 1968 he resigned from the monastery in protest against the conviction of the Reutlingen religious educator Hubertus Halbfas , allowed himself to be laicized and married.

From 1970 to 1995 he worked in development aid. a. as head of a children's village of the international children's aid organization Terre des Hommes in Libreville, Gabon, from 1973 to 1976 as country representative of the German Development Service in Benin and Togo and then as an independent development advisor.

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• Heising, alkuin in the monastery and order lexicon on orden-online.de