Karl Johannes Heyer

Karl Johannes Heyer (born December 5, 1904 in Troisdorf ; † March 27, 1995 in Cologne ) was a German Roman Catholic priest and author.

After graduating from the state grammar school in Siegburg, he studied theology and art history at the universities of Bonn and Breslau. In 1929 he was with a thesis on The Baroque choir stalls in Silesia Dr. phil. PhD. On 29 July 1932 he was in Cologne by Archbishop Karl Joseph Cardinal Schulte , the ordination . From 1932 to 1949 he held various chaplain positions in Essen, Cologne and Berlin before he began his pastoral service at St. Albertus Magnus in Essen-Billebrinkhöhe in 1949. On his initiative, the church was renamed "Pax Christi" and a memorial was set up for all victims of violence in the world. In 1963 Heyer founded the "Pax-Christi Community". In 1975 he retired, which he spent in Cologne-Rodenkirchen. He died on March 27, 1995 in the St. Vinzenz-Stift retirement home. He is buried in the family grave in Wehr.

Heyer's estate is in the historical archive of the Archdiocese of Cologne .

Heyer's importance lies on the one hand in the establishment of the memorial for all victims of all forms of violence in the Pax-Christi Church in Essen, on the other hand in his work as an author. He wrote prayers, meditations and poems. A constantly recurring motif is death.

Works

• Advent-Advent 1933, in: Wort und Werk. Catholic Young Men’s Association Herz Jesu Essen-Altenessen 11 (1933), No. 12.
• The baroque choir stalls in Silesia. A representation of the choir stalls and a contribution to the history of art and handicrafts in the baroque era, Diss.Phil. Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau 1929, with a contribution to the history of music by Johannes Aengenvoort (architectural and art monuments of the German East, published on behalf of Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council Marburg, Series C, Silesia, Vol. 6), Frankfurt (Main) 1977.
• The Passion Path of the Lamb. Meditation on the emblematic Way of the Cross at the Pax-Christi sacrificial site in Essen-Billebrinkhöhe, Munich 1974.
• The seven-armed candlestick of the Pax-Christi Church in Essen-Billebrinkhöhe, in: Das Münster am Hellweg 23 (1970), pp. 112-114.
• The Pax-Christi-Church in Essen-Billebrinkhöhe. A memory and peace church. A Church of the Annunciation, Essen 1968.
• Marriage under the cross. Ecumenical word for bridal and married couples of different denominations by Karl Johannes Heyer and Gerd Henseleit. Edited by the Ecumenical Institute of Niederaltaich Abbey, with a foreword by Ansgar Albrecht, undated 1967.
• Icon Holy Land. Sketches in Israel. In association with the Notre-Dame-de-Jerusalem Center, Graz / Vienna / Cologne around 1980.
• Meditations, flotsam. On the works of Wilhelm Pfeil after the exhibition in 1978. Attempted answer by Herbert Kappes, Korschenbroich 1978, pp. 7-16.
• News of death. In Memoriam Theodor Daniel Merten, Essen 1977/78.
• Ecumenical address to spouses of different denominations with Catholic responsibility (John 17: 13-26), in: Una Sancta 1966, pp. 313-318.
• Rodenkirchener Impressionen, with a foreword by Elmar Hillebrand , Cologne 1987.
• Call of the door of St. Maria in the Capitol of Cologne around 1065. Attempt to capture form and spirituality, Cologne 1987.
• St. Mary's Birth - My Philippi, in: St. Mary's Birth 75 years young at heart, ed. from the parish council of St. Mary's Birth, Essen 1977.
• Death and resurrection as a story of humanity and God. A picture verification in the main altar of the parish church St. Maternus, Cologne 1983.
• "And saw the disciple whom Jesus loved ...", text on the Christ-John group from Sigmaringen, early 14th century, Essen 1949.

literature

• Johannes Wielgoß: The Essen priest and "half-Jew" Dr. Karl Johannes Heyer in the Third Reich, in: Approaches - Christians of Jewish origin under National Socialism. Documentation of two historical symposia in 1995 and 1996 (Reports and Articles, No. 27, published by the Diocese of Essen, Department for Social and Universal Church Tasks, Baldur Hermans ), Essen 1996, pp. 111–124.
• Reimund Haas:  Heyer, Karl Johannes. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 30, Bautz, Nordhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-88309-478-6 , Sp. 621-626.
• Reimund Haas: Karl Johannes Heyer (1904–1995). On his estate and his first work in Essen 1933–1941. A priestly fate of the 20th century between departure and threat, persecution and atonement, in: Reimund Haas / Alfred Pothmann (eds.), Christen an der Ruhr Vol. 2, Pomp, Bottrop 2002, pp. 159–186, ISBN 978-3 -89355-231-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Johannes Heyer in the catalog of the German National Library