Kassian Haid

Kassian Haid OCist , actually Josef Haid , (born November 26, 1879 in Oetz , Tyrol ; † September 22, 1949 in Mehrerau ) was an Austrian religious priest and the 75th Abbot General of the Cistercian Order .

Life

Born as Josef Haid, he entered the Cistercian monastery in Mehrerau as a novice in 1897 , where he took the religious name Kassian. He was ordained a priest on May 24, 1903. Thereupon he did his doctorate in Innsbruck with a thesis on the election of the Brixen bishops in the Middle Ages for Dr. theol. In 1908/1909 he worked as a research assistant to the papal historian Ludwig von Pastor at the Austrian Historical Institute in Rome. Although he pursued the promising scientific activity all his life, research had to take a back seat to the monastic duties.

Kassian Haid was director of the Collegium Bernardi from 1909 to 1919 . On August 16, 1917, the confreres elected him abbot , on December 29 of the same year this election was confirmed and three years later, when the general chapter met in the Mehrerau, Haid was elected abbot general. He held this office from 1920 to 1927, but remained abbot of the Mehrerau; he had been exempted from the abbot general's residence duty in Rome, which had become customary. In 1923 he built the Mehrerau sanatorium Salus infirmorum in a new building by Clemens Holzmeister . He served as editor of the Cistercian Chronicle . When Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938, he fled to Switzerland; his monastery was closed in 1941. Haid still experienced the revival of the Mehrerau.

Haid was in contact with influential personalities in church and state. He was friends in a special way with Bishop Ludwig Maria Hugo of Mainz. Hugo spent one to two weeks in the Abbey of Mehrerau in the years 1927–1932. Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß visited the abbey in June 1934. Nuncio Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli, who later became Pope Pius XII. , was often in the Mehrerau and once spoke of Haid in an audience with other abbots: He [Haid] was a dear friend to me. I mourned him for a long time .

literature

• Bruno Grießer:  Haid, Kassian (baptismal name Josef). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 517 ( digitized version ).
• Haid Kassian (Josef). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 148 f. (Direct links on p. 148 , p. 149 ).
• Hermann Wichers : Haid, Kassian. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Haid Kassian , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol. 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur 1980, p. 265
• Bruno Griesser : Dr. Kassian Haid, Abbot of Wettingen-Mehrerau, Abbot General of the Cistercian Order 1920–1927. Schlern-Schriften 171, Innsbruck 1962.
• Paul Sinz: Abbot Dr. Kassian Haid in memory. In: Cistercian Chronicle . 57. 1950, NF No. 11/12, pp. 1-12.
• Franz Xaver: Bishop Haid. In: Erwin Gatz (ed.): The bishops of the Holy Roman Empire: a biographical lexicon. 1945 to 2001. Berlin 2002, p. 560.

Web links

• Entry to Kassian Haid on medals online (with photo)
• Entry on Kassian Haid on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Two general abbots of the Cistercian order from Mehrerau near Vorarlberg Chronicle
• Kassian Haid in the Biographia Cisterciensis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Griesser, Dr. Kassian Haid, Abbot of Wettingen-Mehrerau, pp. 34–36.

predecessor	Office	successor
Eugene Notz	Abbot of Wettingen-Mehrerau 1917–1949	Heinrich Suso Groner
Eugene Notz	Abbot praeses of the Cistercian Congregation of Mehrerau 1917–1949	Heinrich Suso Groner
Amadeus de Bie	Abbot General of the Cistercian Order 1920–1927	Francis Janssens