Johannes von Rudloff

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Johannes von Rudloff (1969)
Johannes von Rudloff (right, 1967 in Kiel )

Johannes von Rudloff (full name: Johannes Albert von Rudloff , born January 24, 1897 in Wetzlar ; † June 26, 1978 in Hamburg ) was Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Osnabrück and episcopal vicar in Hamburg.

Life

Johannes von Rudloff attended the Paulinum grammar school in Münster and passed his Abitur examination there in 1914 . At the beginning of the First World War he volunteered for the infantry regiment "Herwarth von Bittenfeld" (1st Westphalian) No. 13 . Until 1918 he fought on the Western Front , including on the Chemin des Dames and in the Battle of Verdun , most recently as a lieutenant .

After the end of the war he studied theology in Innsbruck until 1923 and was ordained a priest on March 16, 1924 in Osnabrück . He was chaplain in Lübeck until 1926 , after which he moved to Hamburg and was rector at the Marienkrankenhaus in Hamburg until 1934 . In 1934 he took over the parish of St. Antonius in Hamburg-Winterhude .

The "North German Auxiliary Bishop"

On April 8, 1950, he was appointed titular bishop of Busiris and auxiliary bishop in Osnabrück . The episcopal ordination received his Bishop Hermann Wilhelm Berning on 24 June 1950 in Osnabrück; Co- consecrators were Michael Keller , Bishop of Münster , and Johannes Bydolek , auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Hildesheim . From 1955 to 1957, after the death of Bishop Berning, he headed the diocese of Osnabrück as vicar capitular . As part of the reorganization of the diocese, to which Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein also belonged, Rudloff took his official seat in Hamburg. From there he supported pastoral care in the diaspora and dedicated himself to looking after refugees in northern Germany . After the 2nd Vatican Council , in which he had participated as a council father , he campaigned for the implementation of the council resolutions. The north German auxiliary bishop was particularly keen to open the church, especially in the diaspora, and to promote evangelization . The Catholic Academy in Hamburg-Neustadt , which opened on September 1, 1973, was part of the implementation of these goals . On the occasion of the 1100th anniversary of St. Ansgar , he initiated a Nordic Catholic Day in 1965. In 1967 Johannes von Rudloff was appointed Episcopal Vicar of the Osnabrück Diocese in Hamburg. From 1975 until his death he was auxiliary bishop emeritus in Osnabrück.

Promotion of church building after the Second World War

After the Second World War, Bishop Johannes von Rudloff set himself the highest task of building up the church in the north German diaspora. Therefore he promoted the establishment of new parishes and the building of churches , chapels and monasteries . Because of his activity, he was considered the "secret bishop of Hamburg". The following are some of the churches and institutions he sponsored and consecrated:

  • June 15, 1952: Sacred Heart Congregation in Reinbek
  • October 1, 1953: Catholic parish of St. Konrad in Nortorf
  • July 10, 1955: Catholic parish of St. Ansgar - Kleiner Michel in Hamburg
  • August 15, 1955: Church of Our Lady in Lübeck
  • December 11, 1955: Catholic parish St. Joseph Hamburg-Altona
  • June 4, 1956: Catholic parish of St. Wilhelm in Hamburg-Bramfeld
  • June 10, 1956: Catholic Children's Hospital Wilhelmstift in Hamburg
  • August 14, 1956: Catholic parish of Halstenbek (Hamburg)
  • September 8, 1957: Youth education center for the Diocese of Osnabrück - House Maria Frieden in Wallenhorst / Rulle
Commemorative plaque for "Auxiliary Bishop Johannes von Rudloff Episcopal Vicar"
  • November 4, 1957: Catholic parish of St. Christophorus in Westerland on Sylt
  • March 16, 1958: Catholic parish Heilig Kreuz in Mölln
  • May 26, 1960: St. Bartholomew's parish in Neumünster
  • October 29, 1960: Catholic parish of St. Raphael in Bremen
  • May 23, 1963: Parish of St. Georg in Lübeck
  • June 16, 1965: Catholic parish Heilig Kreuz Hamburg-Volksdorf
  • March 9, 1966: Catholic School Eberhofweg, today Katharina von Siena School in Hamburg (Langenhorn)
  • February 25, 1968: Chapel in the Stella Maris Catholic seaman's home in Hamburg, Reimarusstrasse

In 1962 he was appointed Grand Officer of the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Tisserant and invested on May 4, 1963 in the Konstanz Minster by Archbishop Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the Order.

Johannes von Rudloff died on June 29, 1978 in Hamburg. His grave is in the crypt of today's St. Mary's Cathedral in Hamburg.
At the Hamburg cemetery Ohlsdorf , in grid square Bm 70 (south of Chapel 13) in front of the central crucifix stele, there is a memorial plaque for Johannes von Rudloff with a relief by the sculptor Egino Weinert .

family

His brother was the Benedictine Abbot Leo von Rudloff .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 911 No. 7469, p. 18 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ The crypt of St. Mary's Cathedral , accessed on March 18, 2019.
  3. ↑ Dieter Kilian: Bible - Church - Military. Christianity and being a soldier through the ages . Norderstedt 2018, ISBN 978-3-7528-9166-9 , p. 109.
  4. ↑ Church rector according to CIC § 556 ff.
  5. ↑ Marien Hospital Hamburg
  6. ^ Catholic parish of St. Antonius
  7. ^ Catholic Academy Hamburg
  8. ↑ Heart of Jesus
  9. ↑ St. Konrad ( Memento from March 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Kleiner Michel ( Memento from May 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ St. Joseph
  12. ↑ Catholic Children's Hospital
  13. ↑ Halstenbek
  14. ^ Youth Education Center ( Memento from April 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ St. Christophorus ( Memento of October 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ Holy Cross (Mölln)
  17. ↑ St. Raphael
  18. ↑ St. George
  19. ↑ Holy Cross (Hamburg)
  20. ↑ Katharina-von-Siena-Schule ( Memento from November 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ^ Catholic seaman's station ( Memento from March 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  22. ^ The bishop's crypt and the canon cemetery in Hamburg's Mariendom
personal data
SURNAME Rudloff, Johannes von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudloff, Johannes Albert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop and episcopal vicar
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1978
Place of death Hamburg