Joseph Otto Kolb

Joseph Otto Kolb (born August 9, 1881 in Seßlach ; † March 29, 1955 in Bamberg ) was Archbishop of Bamberg from 1943 to 1955 .

Life

Joseph Otto Kolb attended the new grammar school in Bamberg as a pupil of the archbishop's college for boys, Ottonianum, and graduated from high school there in 1901. He then studied philosophy and theology at the University of Innsbruck from 1901/02 and continued his studies from 1902–1905 at the Philosophical-Theological University in Bamberg. After his ordination on July 30, 1905 in Bamberg, he was initially chaplain in Schlüsselfeld until September 1907 and then worked as a pastor at the Bayreuth Castle Church . In September 1911 he was appointed "inspector" (= director) of the archbishop's seminary for boys in Ottonianum. The position of a part-time religion teacher at the new grammar school in Bamberg was connected with this activity. From February 1, 1924 until his appointment to the Archbishop's Metropolitan Chapter in Bamberg on July 1, 1935, he held the parish of St. Elisabeth in Nuremberg.

Kolb was appointed titular bishop of Velicia on August 10, 1935 and at the same time auxiliary bishop in Bamberg (consecration on October 13, 1935). After the death of his predecessor, he took over the office of archbishop (inauguration on May 9, 1943).

He established the St. Joseph Foundation for church social housing and headed the archdiocese during the Nazi era. Since 1901 he was a member of the Catholic student union AV Austria Innsbruck .

Honors

1946: Honorary citizen of Bamberg
1948: Honorary citizen of Seßlach
1953: Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

Bernhard Stasiewski : Kolb, Joseph Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 442 f. ( Digitized version ).
Josef Urban: Kolb, Joseph Otto. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 324-327. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Individual evidence

^ According to the tombstone in Bamberg Cathedral, born on August 9, according to other sources on August 19.

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Jakob von Hauck	Archbishop of Bamberg 1943 - 1955	Josef Schneider

personal data
SURNAME	Kolb, Joseph Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Roman Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Bamberg
DATE OF BIRTH	August 9, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sesslach
DATE OF DEATH	March 29, 1955
Place of death	Bamberg

[1] According to the tombstone in Bamberg Cathedral, born on August 9, according to other sources on August 19.