Catholic Academic Association
The Katholische Akademikerverband eV is an association of Catholic university graduates that operates across Europe . It emerged from the Association of Associations of Catholic Academics , the forerunner of which was the Association of Academically Educated Catholics .
history
Germany
At the Aachener Katholikentag 1912 the demand was made to merge the local groups of the association of academically educated Catholics (founded in 1909) into a general association. The first president of the Association of Catholic Academics , which arose from the local associations in Bonn , Bremen , Düsseldorf , Duisburg , Essen , Kleve and Cologne in 1913, was Carl Gussone from Cologne . From this association later the Catholic Academic Association of Germany (abbreviated KAV ) arose , which Franz Xaver Münch served as a founding member and from 1916 (over 20 years) as secretary. In contrast to the Görres Society , the KAV sought greater independence for Catholicism.
Abbot Ildefons Herwegen , Alois Dempf , Robert Schumann , Heinrich Brüning , Paul Simon , Johannes Pinsk and others were actively connected to the association. Pope Pius XI In 1928 gave the Catholic Association of Academics in Germany the task of the "Apostolate of the Spirit". In the same year, the association began to publish a magazine entitled The Catholic Thought .
Together with the theological faculty of the Archbishop's See in Salzburg , the German-speaking Benedictine Confederation and the Görres Society , the Catholic Academic Association of Germany organized the Salzburg University Weeks (SHW) for the first time from August 3 to 22, 1931 , also known as universitas catholica in nuce . Then there was a falling out with the Görres Society, which at that time was presided over by Heinrich Finke .
In 1935 the association had around 11,000 members. On December 21, 1938, the KAVD was dissolved and banned.
In 1947 the association was re-established in Mülheim an der Ruhr - in the form of a private association under canon law (convociato privata) of believers in accordance with c 299 CIC . Marl was chosen as the seat .
In June 2014 the general assembly of the KAVD decided to cease its supra-diocesan activity at the end of 2014. On the same date, the association dissolved its structures. The reason given was the decline in membership and the associated loss of contribution funds. Regional work is to be continued in the dioceses.
The magazine Renovatio - magazine for interdisciplinary discussion was also discontinued at the end of 2014.
Austria
In 1947 Monsignor Otto Mauer founded the Catholic Academic Association of the Archdiocese of Vienna (KAV), of which he was clergyman. Otto Schulmeister , Erika Weinzierl , Ferdinand Klostermann and Markus Bittner were among the first members and the magazine Word and Truth was their mouthpiece. In 2006 the name was changed to “Forum Time and Faith / Catholic Academic Association Vienna”. Helmut Schüller is currently his clergyman assistant. The KAV exists in the dioceses of Eisenstadt, St. Pölten, Gurk-Klagenfurt, Graz-Seckau (Forum Faith Science, Art), Linz (Forum St. Severin), Salzburg and as the umbrella organization for Catholic Academics Association Austria, the publisher of the magazine “Quart “Is. As a lay organization with around 1,500 members, the KAV is a division of the Catholic Action .
Publications
- Summa theologica , Volume 1, Salzburg and Leipzig 1934, pp. 205–20035
literature
- Michael Graetz, Aram Mattioli (ed.): Catholic academics in the crisis of modernity. The emergence of the Catholic Academic Association in Wilhelmine Germany between educated bourgeois reform movements and lay apostolate. Perceptions of crises in the fin de siècle. Jewish and Catholic educated elites in Germany and Switzerland , Zurich 1997, pp. 285–300.
- Dieter Breuer, Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann (ed.): The "Catholic Academic Association" in the transition from the Weimar Republic to the "Third Reich". Modernism and National Socialism in the Rhineland , Paderborn 1997, pp. 551–576.
- Jessica Lammerse: The Catholic Academic Association as part of the Catholic milieu in Germany. Historical presentation with special consideration of the Essen local association from its beginnings until the 1970s (= Forum Religion & Social Culture, Dept. B: Profiles and Projects, Vol. 22), ISBN 978-3-8258-0222-6
- Renovatio. Journal for interdisciplinary discussion , 52 (1996) pp. 219-230: The image of the academic has become blurred. How popular is the Catholic Academic Association?
- Vanessa Conze: The Europe of Germans, Paths to the West (1920–1945) , from page 51 The Catholic Academic Association , ISBN 3-486-57757-3
Web links
- Web presence of the Catholic Association of Academics Germany
- Catholic Association of Academics Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ KAVD: Current Messages ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ kar.ruhr: About us , accessed on May 29, 2020.
