Johannes Lechermann

Johannes Lechermann SDB (born September 23, 1879 in Lobsing ; † November 8, 1948 in Benediktbeuern ) was a German Salesian of Don Bosco and moral theologian .

The son of simple and deeply religious parents was a gifted student, but worked on the home estate until he was 20, and was finally called up for military service. During this time he woke up to become a religious and in 1902 he attended the late vocational seminary of the Salesians of Don Bosco in Penango , Italy. In 1905 he entered the novitiate in Lombriasco . After taking his first vows the following year, he studied philosophy in the Salesian Studentat in Ivrea and in 1908 worked as a teacher and prefect of studies in Penango. In 1909 he began to study theology in Foglizzo . He was ordained a priest on July 21, 1913. He received his doctorate in theology from the University of Turin in 1913 . After another year as assistant to the novices, he worked as a religion teacher and catechist in Vienna, for a short time as pastor of Vienna-Stadlau. In 1919 he was appointed director of the Unterwaltersdorf branch . In the following year he was appointed director of the newly opened novitiate in Ensdorf in the Upper Palatinate. In 1922 he went to Burghausen to take over from the seriously ill director Georg Ring . In Ensdorf and Burghausen he developed a rich literary activity. After six years in Burghausen, he returned to Ensdorf as director for a year, and in 1930 reapplied as director in Burghausen. But once again he should rush to the aid of Father Ring, who after a year in the new studentate in Benediktbeuern Monastery had to give up again due to illness. Lechermann became his successor and remained director of Benediktbeuern until 1938.

After almost twenty years as a director with frequent changes, he worked at the Philosophical-Theological University of Benediktbeuern as a lecturer in moral theology .

Works

• Character image of Don Bosco , after JB Lemoyne, Amberg 1921
• Don Bosco's educational system. Amberg o. J.
• Maria as the teacher of Don Bosco in the education of the poor and abandoned youth. Burghausen 1928 (also published in Braille)
• The veneration of the Mother of God under the title " Maria, Hilfe der Christisten ". Munich 1928
• The miracles of Mary, help of Christians, through her faithful servant, the venerable priest Johannes Bosco. Burghausen 1923
• Mama Margareta, the mother of Blessed Johannes Bosco, an example of good Christian mothers. Munich 1930
• Leo Burger, role model of a pious, happy and ambitious seminarist. Munich 1930
• How Mary instructs Blessed Don Bosco to educate the young. Munich 1931
• Saint Joseph as a helper in every need. Munich 1933
• The inner life of St. John Bosco. Translation of the 1st edition of "Don Bosco con Dio" by Eugenio Ceria, Munich 1934
• Sacred Heart Month. Munich 1935
• Brief biography of HH director Georg Ring SDB (1879–1932). (Manuscript), ed. by Otto Wahl , Benediktbeuern 2003

literature

• Georg Söll , The Salesians of Don Bosco in the German-speaking area 1888-1988 , Munich 1989

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Lechermann in the catalog of the German National Library