Karlheinz Hoffmann (Jesuit)

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Karlheinz Hoffmann SJ (born October 31, 1927 in Hamborn ; † January 19, 2012 in Cologne-Mülheim ) was a German Jesuit and journalist .

Life

After attending school in Hamborn (1934-1943) and wartime, he was able to do his Abitur in Warendorf in 1947 . He first began to study teaching at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . On September 7, 1949, he joined the Congregation of the Jesuits in. He was ordained a priest on July 31, 1959.

Karlheinz Hoffmann was from 1961 to 1969 television commissioner for the German Bishops' Conference at ZDF . From 1967 to 1969 he was the head of the " Catholic television work in Germany ". After receiving his doctorate in 1970 at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz on the Greek philosopher Plotinus , he switched to Vatican Radio and was its head of the German-speaking section. He was the founder of the German-language edition of " L'Osservatore Romano ". Pope Paul VI appointed him in 1973 to head (undersecretary) of the Vatican Media Commission, today's Pontifical Council for Social Communications ; his successor was the Swiss Hans-Peter Röthlin . For 17 years he was a German commentator on the transmission of papal addresses and the blessing of Urbi et Orbi .

After retiring in 1990, he returned to Duisburg and was involved in hospital and community pastoral care.

Fonts

  • The ways of thinking to É́v in Plotinus. Mainz 1970.
  • Church and business society. Hanstein 1974, ISBN 3775675523 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Father Karlheinz Hoffmann is dead , Vatican Radio , January 21, 2012
  2. ^ The Pontifical Council for Social Communications , derus.org, accessed January 23, 2012
  3. ^ Obituary notice from Karlheinz Hoffmann SJ ( memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on January 23, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Karlheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamborn
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 2012
Place of death Cologne-Mülheim