Karl Gnädinger

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Karl Gnädinger (born November 5, 1905 in Bohlingen ; † March 12, 1995 ) was auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Freiburg .

Life

Karl Gnädinger came from a humble background. He was the youngest of four siblings (two sisters and one brother) of his parents Peter Gnädiger and Rosa, née Küchler, from Ehingen , born (⚭ October 9, 1899) in Bohlingen. The next day he was baptized in the parish church of Bohlingen; Godparents were Maria Küchler, a sister of his mother, and his uncle Josef Gnädinger. Only five months after Karl was born, his father died of the consequences of an accident; on December 18, 1916, at the age of eleven, he also lost his 52-year-old mother. The local pastor of Bohlingen, Josef Scheu, took care of the orphaned Karl and paved the way for him: In autumn 1917 Karl passed the entrance examination to the quinta of the Konstanzer Suso-Gymnasium and was accepted into the pupils of the Konradihaus .

After graduating from high school in Constance, Gnädinger entered the Freiburg Collegium Borromaeum in 1925 and studied Catholic theology until the end of the winter semester 1928/29 . In Freiburg Gnädinger became an active member of the Catholic student association Germania-Hohentwiel in the KV . After the compulsory year in the seminary at St. Peter, he was ordained priest on March 16, 1930 by Archbishop Karl Fritz , and then until November 1931 the vicar time in Nussbach im Renchtal and Waldshut. Gnädinger then came to Constance until December 1938 , where he became Prefect at the Konradihaus . After a short interlude in Sipplingen , Gnädinger went to Schopfheim im Wiesental as a parish administrator in 1939 , where he was invested as a pastor a year later. In 1950 he was elected chamberlain and in 1951 dean of the Wiesental district chapter. Just a year later, in December 1952, Karl Gnädinger became minister pastor in Constance. With the elevation of the Constance Minster to a minor basilica by Pope Pius XII. in 1955, which Gnädinger had initiated, he succeeded in regaining at least a faint reflection of the former splendor of the episcopal city for Constance.

On November 5, 1960, on his 55th birthday, Pope John XXIII appointed him . as titular bishop of Celerina and auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Freiburg. He received his episcopal consecration on January 12, 1961 in the Freiburg Minster of Freiburg Archbishop Hermann Josef Schäufele ; Co- consecrators were Wilhelm Sedlmeier , auxiliary bishop in Rottenburg, and Josef Maria Reuss , auxiliary bishop in Mainz. For many years he was head of the Caritas department for the Archdiocese of Freiburg, and he was also chairman of the Diocesan Caritas Association for many years. Later he took over the department of religious orders , for which he was also responsible as a cross-diocesan member and temporarily as chairman of the relevant commission of the German Bishops' Conference . Together with Hermann Schäufele, he participated in the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965.

After the death of Archbishop Hermann Schäufele on June 26, 1977, the cathedral chapter elected its provost Karl Gnädinger as the vicar of the capitol and administrator of the diocese . In 1980 his resignation was granted by John Paul II .

Karl Gnädinger died on March 12, 1995. He was buried in the bishop's crypt in the Freiburg Minster.

Honors

Auxiliary Bishop Gnädinger House, seat of the Caritas Association for the Archdiocese of Freiburg

Gnädinger is the namesake for the Auxiliary Bishop Gnädinger House in Freiburg-Lehen, the seat of the Caritas Association for the Archdiocese of Freiburg.

In 1978, Karl Gnädinger from the Theological Faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg with a honorary doctorate to Dr. theol. hc honored.

He was an honorary member of the Catholic student associations KStV Neuenfels in Freiburg in the KV and KDSt.V. Bodensee Konstanz in the CV .

On July 23, 1961, Karl Gnädinger was made an honorary citizen of his home community Bohlingen.

In grateful appreciation and recognition of his services to the pilgrimage town of Walldürn and the pilgrimage to the Holy Blood, he was granted honorary citizenship on June 24, 1981.

literature

  • Helmut Riedlinger : Auxiliary Bishop Dr. theol. hc Karl Gnädinger , In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv 116, 1996, pp. 275–280.
  • Arnold Amann: Auxiliary Bishop Dr. theol. hc Karl Gnädinger , In: Hegau - magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance , volume 46. Self-published by the Hegau-Geschichtsverein Singen e. V., Singen (Hohentwiel) , 1989, p. 219ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorary doctorates from the Theological Faculty of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
  2. ^ Walldürner honorary citizen .
personal data
SURNAME Gnädinger, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Freiburg
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Bohlingen
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1995