Josef Hagmann

Abbot Josef Hagmann, oil painting by Fanny Inama von Sternegg

Josef Hagmann OSB (born March 16, 1871 in Mosnang , canton St. Gallen, as August Hagmann ; † August 4, 1926 in Innsbruck ) was a Swiss Catholic clergyman. From 1915 until his death he was abbot of the Fiecht monastery in Tyrol .

Life

The son of a wealthy bourgeois family visited the Einsiedeln seminary and the St. Michael's College in Friborg and then studied at the University of Freiburg , first philosophy then, Theology . From 1895 he studied theology at the University of Innsbruck and was ordained a priest on July 26, 1899. In September of the same year he entered the Benedictine monastery of St. Georgenberg-Fiecht and in 1904 made solemn religious vows. He worked as a teacher in the boys' convent of the monastery and from 1904 to 1912 as a chaplain in the Achental monastery parish . In addition, as cellarer, he was responsible for the monastery's economic affairs. After Albert Wildauer's death , he was elected abbot on May 26, 1915.

Hagmann's tenure was shaped by the First World War and the economically difficult post-war period. During the war he made the rooms of the convent school available for a military convalescent home. In 1919 he was forced to sell the Achensee together with the inns Fürstenhaus and Seehof and the ships St. Josef , St. Benedikt and Stella Maris to the city of Innsbruck. In the last years of the war in particular, he promoted the veneration of the Sacred Heart in the monastery. In the last years of his life he suffered from serious illnesses. He died on August 4, 1926 in the sanatorium of the Sisters of the Cross in Innsbruck of complications from pneumonia. On August 7th he was buried in the monastery cemetery in Fiecht.

literature

• S. Gn. Josef Hagmann, Abbot of Fiecht. In: People's calendar for Freiburg and Wallis 1928 , p. 89 ( PDF; 18 MB )
• Hagmann, Josef , in: Biographia Benedictina (Benedictine Biography), version of November 30, 2016