Joseph Lechner

The title of this article is ambiguous. For other people with a similar name, see Josef Lechner .

Joseph Lechner (born January 29, 1893 in Megesheim , † January 31, 1954 in Eichstätt ) was a German Roman Catholic canon lawyer and liturgist .

Lechner was ordained a priest in 1917 . He studied theology and received his doctorate. theol. 1922 at the LMU Munich . In 1925 he became a lecturer in fundamental theology , later also church law and, from 1941, liturgy at the Episcopal Philosophical-Theological College in Eichstätt . In the history of the liturgy he continued the work of Ludwig Eisenhofer . In an initial euphoria, he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler in November 1933 , but this was soon followed by disillusionment. As a kind of resistance action against the Nazi state in 1937, Lechner designed a leaflet with the signature "Michael Germanicus", an open letter to Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels , alleging that there was no longer an objective judiciary in Germany. He was cathedral vicar in Eichstätt 1923–1926, official 1939–1944 and was appointed to the Episcopal Spiritual Council in 1942 and to the Papal House Prelate in 1953.

Fonts

• The doctrine of the sacraments of Richard von Mediavilla , Kösel, Kempten 1923 (= Munich dissertation 1922)
• A. Lang / J. Lechner / M. Schmaus (ed.), From the spiritual world of the Middle Ages. Festschrift for M. Grabmann, Münster / W. 1935
• The late medieval manuscript history of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Walburg / Eichstätt (By.) , Aschendorff, Münster / W. 1937
• Human Re-Humanization: Contemporary Thoughts for Apostolic Christians , Echter, Würzburg 1949
• Liturgy of the Roman Rite , 6th edition, Herder, Freiburg i. B. 1953

literature

• Matthias Buschkühl : Joseph Lechner, 1893-1954: Scholar and fighter against National Socialism: Exhibition catalog and documentation , Eichstätt 1993

Web link

• History of liturgy in Eichstätt