Johannes Waxenberger

Johannes Waxenberger (born July 9, 1915 in Velden (Vils) , † June 25, 2010 in Siegsdorf ) was a German priest and theologian.

Life

Waxenberger completed his theology studies, which he began in Würzburg in 1935, after an interruption due to Reich Labor Service in Leipzig in 1939 in Freising . In the same year he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . During the Second World War , the clergyman was taken prisoner , so that he was ordained a priest only after his release in 1947. After the first places of work in Siegsdorf and St. Paul in Munich , Waxenberger was appointed secretary to the Archbishop of Munich and Freising , Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber . Faulhaber's successor, however, curtailed Waxenberger's competencies, so that he suddenly resigned his office in 1954.

From Faulhaber's death in 1952 until his own death in 2010, Waxenberger kept Faulhaber's important diaries in a cardboard box under his bed .

From 1955 Waxenberger worked as an assistant to the Catholic child welfare and as a priest, u. a. as pastor in Fürstenfeldbruck . A record Great Alpine Christmas Masses recorded there with him as the speaker was distributed nationwide. In 1977 Waxenberger finally became a prelate .

On August 15, 1981 Waxenberger was injured in the assassination attempt on Auxiliary Bishop Matthias Defregger . In the following year the clergyman was retired, but worked among other things. a. still in the local church work and as the founder of his retirement and nursing home in his place of residence Siegsdorf.

Waxenberger was an honorary citizen of Siegsdorf.

Publications

• Parish and pilgrimage church Maria Ramersdorf in Munich , 1971 Oefele
• Great Alpine Christmas Mettles, 1975 Supertone, Starlet 1027 1
• Cardinal Faulhaber. Reflections on the creation of a legend in: Das Bayerland , 12/1977

Single receipts

1. ↑ Which side was Cardinal von Faulhaber on? In: sueddeutsche.de. October 15, 2013, accessed September 16, 2018 .