Josef Vogel (prelate)

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Josef Vogel (born September 10, 1906 in Bopfingen-Itzlingen , † June 6, 1997 in Altshausen ) was a Roman Catholic prelate .

Life

Josef Vogel was Kolping Diocesan President of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese . During the National Socialist period he was involved in the Catholic Bible Movement and was elected deputy director of the Catholic Biblical Works because director Josef Bärtle was increasingly being targeted by the Gestapo.

Since 1955, Vogel has been the city pastor of St. Eberhard in Stuttgart, succeeding Rudolf Spohn, and from 1956 city dean of Stuttgart. He was significantly involved in the 80th German Catholic Convention in 1964. In 1970 he retired as the last pastor of the parish church (St. Eberhard was raised to the status of cathedral).

In 1971 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and invested in the Konstanz Minster on May 15, 1971 by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . He was an officer of the order.

honors and awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chronicle of the City of Stuttgart, 1997-1999 , Hohenheim Verlag 2000, p. 71
  2. Erwin Vogel: Church-sponsored adult education as a field of religious education , Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 1983, p. 393 ff.
  3. ^ Chronicle of the City of Stuttgart , Klett-Verlag, p. 122 f.
  4. ^ Church in the heart of the city. 200 years of the parish of St. Eberhard in Stuttgart , Schwabenverlag 2006