Klaus Greef

Klaus Greef (born January 4, 1930 in Duisburg , Germany ) is a German Catholic priest and emeritus dean . From 1982 to 1997 he was city ​​dean of Frankfurt am Main .

Live and act

Born in Duisburg, he came to Frankfurt am Main at the age of seven and witnessed the beginning of the Second World War there . After the war he did his Abitur at the city's Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium and then began studying Catholic theology at the Philosophical-Theological University of St. Georgen in Frankfurt.

In 1955 he was ordained a priest in Limburg . He then worked in Limburg, first as a chaplain of the cathedral parish and then became the first pastor of the St. Hildegard Church, which was newly built from 1965 to 1967 . He then worked as a local pastor in the Westerwald , before coming to Lahnstein in 1972 , where he also worked as a pastor, city dean and district dean of the Rhein-Lahn district. There he worked until 1982 and another move followed, this time to Frankfurt am Main. There he became pastor at St. Bartholomew's Cathedral and, as city dean, the city's highest Catholic representative. He held this office until his retirement in 1997. He was also the non-resident cathedral capitular at Limburg Cathedral . From 1994 to 1997 he was also pastor at the St. Leonhards Church in Frankfurt .

After his retirement he worked as a parish administrator several times and has been active in pastoral care for the blind since 2011. He lives in the Franziska-Schervier Senior Center in Frankfurt am Main.

Awards

• Plaque of honor of the city of Frankfurt am Main , 1995

Publications

• Klaus Greef: The Catholic Frankfurt: then and now . Knecht-Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 978-3-7820-0587-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of St. Hildegard 1967 - 2010. In: Website Pastoraler Raum Limburg. 2018, accessed February 23, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Carina Berg: 60 years in the service of love. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse . March 7, 2015, accessed February 24, 2018 .