Joseph Teusch

Joseph Teusch , also Josef Teusch , (born February 15, 1902 in Cologne , † September 20, 1976 in Cologne ) was a German clergyman and from 1952 to 1969 Vicar General of the Archbishop of Cologne .

Life

Teusch was the son of the textile merchants Heinrich Teusch and Gertrud Gülich.

He graduated from high school in Essen and then studied theology at the University of Bonn from 1921 to 1925. After his training in Cologne Seminary he received the 1927 ordination and went from 1927 to 1929 as a chaplain to Cologne-Raderthal . He then stayed until 1932 to do his doctorate in Rome .

On March 16, 1934 he was appointed cathedral vicar . In the same year he took over the management of the defense office founded by Cardinal Karl Joseph Schulte against the National Socialist anti-Christian propaganda . In this position Teusch brought out some writings to refute the worldview of National Socialism , which were widely distributed. So in 1934 the book Studies on the Myth of the 20th Century against one of the most important ideologues of National Socialism, Alfred Rosenberg , and in 1936 the book Catechism Truths . From 1944 to 1952 he was director of the Collegium Leoninum in Bonn.

Archbishop Joseph Cardinal Frings appointed Teusch as his vicar general on March 6, 1952. He had to this office resignation of Frings on February 23, 1969 held. As Vicar General, he initiated the partnership between the Archdiocese of Cologne and the Archdiocese of Tokyo , which was a universal church pilot project.

In 1958, Frings, as chairman of the Fulda Bishops' Conference, presented the conception of the world's first work against hunger and disease in the world , developed by Vicar General Teusch , which was decided by the conference under the name Episcopal Aid Organization Misereor . It is significant for the history of Misereor that Teusch had read a travel report by Jakob Alfons Holl about the work of Mother Teresa in Calcutta in 1957 , to which Holl had attached moving, self-made photos of the poverty of children in India . In his report he describes, among other things, how Mother Teresa cared for the dying in her temple donated by the city and lovingly accompanied them until death. He also reports how two people died in his own lap.

The Episcopal Action Adveniat , supported by the German bishops from 1961 at the request of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America , also goes back to a joint initiative by Teusch and Frings. During the Second Vatican Council Teusch was council advisor to the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Frings. Teusch died on September 20, 1976 in Cologne.

Honors

On June 21, 1960, the theological faculty of the University of Bonn named Teusch an honorary doctorate .
On November 4, 1974, the economics faculty of Nanzan University in Nagoya named Teusch an honorary doctorate.
A street in Cologne is named after him.

Fonts

And Christ is still the Lord , Cologne 1935
Specific religion? Letter to a new religious person , Bad Godesberg 1935
Catholic faith in the hour of probation , Leutersdorf 1936
Has the Church gotten old and tired? , Bad Godesberg 1938
Words of the Lord , Cologne 1977

literature

Norbert Trippen : Joseph Teusch . In: Rheinische Lebensbilder Vol. 15 , Hg: Franz Josef Heyen, Cologne 1995, pp. 223–246, ISBN 3-7927-1537-6
Wilhelm Neuss : Fight against the myth of the 20th century , Cologne, 1947
Eduard Hegel : The Archdiocese of Cologne between the Restoration of the 19th Century and the Restoration of the 20th Century (= History of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Vol. 5) , Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-7616-0873-X

Web links

Literature by and about Joseph Teusch in the catalog of the German National Library
Joseph Teusch rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de

Individual evidence

^ Norbert Trippen: Josef Cardinal Frings (1887-1978). Volume 2: His work for the universal Church and his final bishopric years. (Publications of the Commission for Contemporary History, Series B: Research, Volume 104). Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-71345-0 , p. 106 ff.

predecessor	Office	successor
Emmerich David	Cologne Vicar General 1952 - 1969	Hermann Jansen

personal data
SURNAME	Teusch, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Teusch, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German clergyman and vicar general of the Archbishop of Cologne (1952–1969)
DATE OF BIRTH	February 15, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	20th September 1976
Place of death	Cologne

[1] Norbert Trippen: Josef Cardinal Frings (1887-1978). Volume 2: His work for the universal Church and his final bishopric years. (Publications of the Commission for Contemporary History, Series B: Research, Volume 104). Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-71345-0 , p. 106 ff.