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 .

Grave of Bishop Johannes Poggenburg in Münster Cathedral

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

Commons : Johannes Poggenburg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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
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
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

[1] 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.