Johannes Poggenburg
Johannes Poggenburg (born May 12, 1862 in Ostbevern , Westphalia , † January 5, 1933 in Münster ) was the 72nd Bishop of Münster with the personal title of Archbishop .
Life
Johannes Poggenburg was born as the eighth of nine children on a small farm in Ostbevern in the Münsterland . It was not until he was 23 that he graduated from high school. As a student in Münster, he became an active member of the Catholic student association Germania in KV . In 1889 Poggenburg was ordained a priest . After working as a chaplain in Bocholt and as rector of the branch church in Untermeiderich near Duisburg, he was followed by tasks in youth care and as head of a boys' convict. 1911 Bishop named him Felix von Hartmann the Vicar General .
In 1913, Johannes Poggenburg was elected Bishop of Munster after his predecessor had been named Archbishop of Cologne . He was ordained bishop on October 16, 1913 by the new Archbishop of Cologne and later Cardinal Felix von Hartmann; Co- consecrators were the Paderborn Bishop Karl Joseph Schulte and the Osnabrück Bishop Hubertus Voss .
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On July 26, 1916, he founded the Diocesan Cartas Association of Münster in conjunction with the charitable associations. In the spring of 1929 he appointed Clemens August Graf von Galen as pastor of St. Lamberti in Münster. The bishop wanted to use the reputation of Galens to counteract the dwindling influence of the Catholic Center Party on the Rhenish-Westphalian nobility, which sympathized with the right-wing German nationalists and the völkisch NSDAP. During his tenure, Poggenburg founded a total of 52 new parishes , primarily to take account of the strong population growth in the parts of the northern Ruhr area belonging to the diocese of Münster . In 1930 the Pope bestowed on him the personal title of Titular Archbishop of Nicopsis .
On January 5, 1933, Bishop Johannes Poggenburg died of a lung disease. At his own request, he was buried in front of the Pietà in Münster Cathedral. Clemens August Graf von Galen became his successor.
Aftermath
The house where Johannes Poggenburg was born was sold to the Ostbevern Heimatverein in 1995 for a symbolic price of DM 1. It was extensively restored and is now used as a home.
Close to the house where the mother was born is the chapel dedicated to the painful mother , dedicated to the memory of the bishop and seven other family members who were killed in a bomb attack in Münster in 1943.
literature
- Heinrich Weber: On the death of Archbishop Dr. Johannes Poggenburg in Munster. In: Caritas , vol. 38, 1933, pp. 21-22.
- Heinrich Börsting , Alois Schröer (edit.): Handbook of the Diocese of Münster. 2nd edition Verlag Regensberg, Münster 1946, first volume: Geschichte, p. 114.
Web links
- Entry on Johannes Poggenburg on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved April 18, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See: Wilhelm Damberg : Moderne und Milieu 1802–1998 , in: Arnold Angenendt Ed .: History of the Diocese of Münster , dialogverlag Münster 1998, ISBN 3-933144-10-8 , p. 219 f.
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Felix von Hartmann |
Bishop of Münster 1913–1933 |
Clemens August Graf von Galen |
Felix von Hartmann | Vicar General of the Diocese of Münser 1911–1913 |
Heinrich Hasenkamp |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Poggenburg, Johannes |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German clergyman, Bishop of Munster |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1862 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ostbevern , Westphalia |
DATE OF DEATH | January 5, 1933 |
Place of death | Muenster |