Karl Hilgenreiner
Karl Hilgenreiner (born February 22, 1867 in Friedberg / Hessen ; † May 9, 1948 in Vienna ) was a Catholic moral theologian and politician .
Life
After studying theology at the Germanicum and at the Gregoriana in Rome , Hilgenreiner was ordained a priest on October 28, 1891 . This was followed by a doctorate to Dr. phil. (1888) and Dr. theol. (1892) as well as the appointment as an external professor for canon law and Christian social doctrine at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague (1898), where he became full professor in 1905 and subsequently became dean and rector several times. His main scientific work is the Kirchliche Handlexikon (1907/1912). In 1905 he became an honorary member of the KDStV Ferdinandea Prague .
Hilgenreiner published the magazines Katholikenkorrespondenz and Zeitwächter . He advanced to the position of organizer of the Catholic Sudeten German Movement and, together with Robert von Mayr-Harting (both honorary members of the KDSt.V. Saxo-Bavaria Prague), designed the program for the German Christian Social People's Party in 1919 , of which he became chairman in 1927 and which he of Represented as senator in parliament from 1920 to 1938. In 1938 it had to bow to the claim to sole representation of Konrad Henlein's Sudeten German party, forced by Hitler, and was incorporated into it.
Hilgenreiner publicly condemned the German occupation of "remaining Czech Republic" in 1939 and the reprisals of the occupying power against the church. He was placed under constant police supervision and finally imprisoned from June 1944 in the Zásmuky monastery , a concentration camp for priests. Shortly after the liberation there, the Czech authorities imprisoned Hilgenreiner again, now in Prague. In 1946 he was deported to Austria, where he found a job as an auxiliary chaplain on the outskirts of Vienna.
His younger brother Heinrich Hilgenreiner was also a medical professor at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague.
Works
- Pre-ecclesiastical censorship and particular law , 1901.
- Kirchliches Handlexikon (edited together with Michael Buchberger), 2 volumes, Munich 1907 and 1912.
- The Roman question after the world war. Boniface Printing House, Prague 1915.
literature
- Hilgenreiner Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 316.
- Franz Hieronymus Riedl: Bishop Wenzel Fried and Prelate Karl Hilgenreiner and the nationality problem in Bohemia at the turn of the century . In: Humanitas ethnica. Human dignity, law and community. Festschrift for Theodor Veiter . Vienna 1968, pp. 226–241.
- Kurt Augustinus Huber: Hilgenreiner, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , pp. 140 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Hilgenreiner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Complete directory of the CV The honorary members, old men and students of the Cartell Association (CV) of the cath. German student associations. 1912, Strasbourg i. Els. 1912, p. 311.
- ↑ Martin Zückert: Religion in the Bohemian Lands 1938-1948, page 36
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hilgenreiner, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catholic moral theologian and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedberg , Hesse |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1948 |
| Place of death | Vienna |