Karl Petrus Möhler

Karl Petrus Möhler OPraem (born October 21, 1897 in Staab ( Stod ), Mies district ; † March 7, 1968 in Schönau, Strüth municipality , Rhein-Lahn district ) was a Premonstratensian and in 1944 abbot of the Teplá Monastery in western Bohemia .

Karl Petrus Möhler entered the Teplá Monastery as a graduate of the Premonstratensian grammar school in Pilsen in 1919, studied philosophy and theology at the University of Innsbruck and was ordained a priest in 1924 as a doctor of theology. Afterwards he was pastor in the collegiate parishes of Tuschkau and Chotieschau and in 1933 was chairman of the district group of the Catholic people's leagues in the Pilsen-Staab district; Director of the Catholic Action in the German part of the diocese. 1937 pastor in his place of birth Staab ( Stod ); 1940 vicar of the newly established vicariate there and in 1944 abbot of the Teplá Monastery. In May 1945, after the end of the Second World War and the occupation of the Teplá Monastery by the Czech police and the military, he was arrested as a German-speaking religious and spent the period from 1945 to around 1948 under the supervision of the Czechoslovak authorities in a deportation camp for Germans, probably in near the city of Tepl.

After he was released from prison, he was able to leave the country and found accommodation in the Schönau monastery in the Rhein-Lahn district . From there, Karl Peter Möhler campaigned for the expellees , especially Sudeten Germans in Bavaria and Austria. In 1950 he was the Definitor in the leadership of the Premonstratensian Order and in 1953 a visitor to the Austrian monasteries of the Order. He has been honored many times a. a. with the Great Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , the Bavarian Order of Merit , the Lodgman von Auen plaque, the Nordgau plaque of the Egerländer Gmoi and the Nordgau Culture Prize of the city of Amberg in the Upper Palatinate.

His brother Justinus Möhler was also a Premonstratensian in the Teplá Monastery. From 1949 to 1951 he was a pastor in Offheim , then active in the episcopal office in the Limburg diocese .

literature

• Wacht an der Mies, home book for the districts of Mies ( Stribro ), Pilsen (Plzen), Staab ( Stod ), Tuschkau (Touskov) and Wiesengrund (Dobrany). Volume 50 (1968), p. 194f.
• Communications from the Sudeten German priesthood. (1947) 73; (1968), pp. 50f.
• Sudeten German newspaper . October 27, 1947 and May 15, 1968.
• Sudetenland. Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia. Volume 10, 1964, pp. 140ff.
• Heribert Sturm (Ed. On behalf of the Collegium Carolinum ): Biographical Lexicon for the history of the Bohemian countries. Volume II, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-486-52551-4 , p. 693.
• Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected people from the former government district of Eger. Volume 1, Männedorf / ZH 1985, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 , pp. 155-156.

Web links

• Heike Nasritdinova:  Möhler, Petrus Karl . Entry in the database of the Oberpfälzer Kulturbund (currently not available)