Josef Weißthanner

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Josef Weißthanner (born February 10, 1901 in Munich ; † December 2, 1971 there ) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman .

Career

Weißthanner came as the son of the nurse Joseph Weißthanner and his wife Barbara, nee. Late, to the world. His father was a nurse in the Eglfing-Haar insane asylum. He attended elementary school in Ottendichl, which is close to his father's place of work . Later he came to the boys' education institution in Algasing , in 1914 as a seminarist in the Latin school in Scheyern and from 1918 to 1922 he also attended the grammar school in Freising as a seminarist .

After graduating from high school, he went to Rome to study philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University . In 1925 he received his doctorate in philosophy and in 1929 in theology. On October 28, 1928, he was ordained a priest in Rome .

Immediately after his return to Munich, Archbishop Michael Cardinal Faulhaber appointed him to be his secretary. During the ten years in this position, Weißthanner moved into the field of vision of those in power due to Faulhaber's exposed role, especially during the Nazi era .

In 1933 he came ninth out of 68 candidates in the parish bankruptcy examination. On June 1, 1939, he became cathedral preacher and cathedral cooperator in the Frauenkirche in Munich . After the church was badly damaged, he went to Oberornau as parish vicar in January 1945 . From November 1945 to the end of May 1946 he was a preacher at St. Kajetan's in Munich.

With effect from June 1, 1946, he was appointed cathedral chapter by Cardinal Faulhaber and sworn in on June 25, 1946. At the same time he took over the chairmanship of the Diocesan Charity Association in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and of the Caritas department in the ordinariate, succeeding the late Thomas Stadler .

He died on December 2, 1971 at the age of 70 in the Third Order Hospital in Munich-Nymphenburg.

Fonts

  • Michael Cardinal Faulhaber. 25 years of bishopric. Priestly Association of the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising, Munich 1936.
  • Michael Cardinal Faulhaber. 80 years. Publishing house Catholic Church of Bavaria, Munich 1949.
  • Michael Cardinal Faulhaber. Archbishop of Munich and Freising 1869–1952. Publishing house for religious literature Dr. Krueckemeyer, Saarbrücken 1957.

Sources and literature on Weisthanner

  • Schematism of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising for the year 1953 (as of August 1, 1953), Munich undated [1953], pp. XVII-XIX, 109, 111, 258.
  • Hans-Jörg Nesner, Weißthanner, Josef, Dr., Dr., 1901 - 1971 , in: Hans-Jörg Nesner, Das Metropolitankapitel zu München (since 1821), In: Georg Schwaiger (Hrsg.), Monachium Sacrum: Festschrift zur 500 Anniversary celebration of the Metropolitan Church to Our Lady in Munich , Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, Volume 1 (Church History), p. 475–608, here: p. 561f.

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personal data
SURNAME Weissthanner, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1971
Place of death Munich