Koloman Moullion

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Koloman Moullion (born October 13, 1909 in Szilberek ( German  Ulmenau, Brestowatz ), Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † February 16, 1971 in Windsor (Ontario) , Canada ) was a Catholic priest and editor-in-chief of the magazine Jugendruf (1941–1944) , later displaced pastor , dean and papal secret chamberlain . He came from the Danube Swabian ethnic group .

Life

Koloman Moullion's parents were Matthias Moullion (* July 8, 1883), a descendant of French people who had settled in the town of Brestowatz in the Batschka in 1786 and soon nationalized as Yugoslav Germans , and his wife Katharina, née Deutschle (* July 3, 1885 ). Their three children all took up spiritual professions.

In 1935 Koloman Moullion was ordained a priest . He found his preferred field of work in youth and adult education, for which, among other things, he set up a German-language “book center with book dispatch”. As editor-in-chief (1940–1944) of the organ of young German Catholics, the independent magazine Jugendruf (edition 8,000), which has been published monthly in Prigrevica since 1938 , he took a stand against the press of the National Socialist innovators , which appeared aggressive towards the clergy , although he was a member of the “Generation of the young German clergy in Yugoslavia [...] to their own nationality in a positive relationship ”. After the defeat of Yugoslavia in the Second World War , the Kingdom of Hungary annexed the Batschka from 1941 to 1944, which meant that the paper gained readership in Hungary and became very popular among the Hungarian-German Catholic youth.

After the withdrawal of the Wehrmacht , the period of expropriation and expulsion of the German population began in Yugoslavia , during which Moullion was interned in a camp. In 1947 he managed to escape to Vienna via Hungary . Here he was active in the pastoral care of expellees and edited a Catholic monthly for his compatriots who were expelled from their homes.

In 1948 Moullion moved to Windsor, Canada , in the province of Ontario , where Danube Swabian emigrants had settled. Here in 1949 he established the St. Michaels Congregation, which soon had a pastoral care center and the St. Michaels parish church. As a result, he also offered his pastoral activities in Detroit , London and Chicago . When St. Michaels-Werk was founded in 1961, a lay campaign in Toronto , Moullion was appointed regional dean of German-speaking pastoral care in Canada. Pope John XXIII appointed him in 1962 as papal secret chamberlain, as such he was addressed as monsignor .

Mouillon sponsored the annual June pilgrimages of Danube Swabian Catholics to the Augustinian monastery Marylake in King City (Ontario) since 1945 .

After his death in 1971 he was buried in the St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Cemetery in Windsor.

Publications

  • As editor: Youth before God. What we pray and sing. Centrum, 1942.

literature

  • Michael Benzinger: 25 years of the parish of St. Michael of German Catholics 1949–1974. Windsor 1974.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Personal master card Moullion, Koloman.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.moullion.de
  2. ↑ Arpadenzeit in Batscher County - Sekitsch. P. 16, entry Bresztovacz .
  3. ↑ Arpadenzeit in Batscher County - Sekitsch. P. 49, entry Batch-Sentwan, 1938 .
  4. ^ Johann Böhm : The German ethnic group in Yugoslavia 1918-1941. Domestic and foreign policy as symptoms of the relationship between the German minority and the Yugoslav government. Verlag Peter Lang, 2009. ISBN 3-63159-557-3 , p. 254.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Moullion, Koloman . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
  6. ↑ Franz Walper: minket is üldöztek ... A csobánkai svábok kálváriájának és kiűzetésének dokumentációja. Chapter: Ellenállás a magyarországi németség körében a Volksbunddal szemben. A Budapesti Német Lelkészség és P. Johann Georg Czurda szerepe. ISBN 9-63650-459-8 , 1996.
  7. ^ Hans Gehl: Dictionary of Danube Swabian ways of life , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005. A. 35.
  8. ↑ a b Batsch-Brestowatz and his church life . In: Donaudeutsche Nachrichten, April 2010, 56th volume, p. 9.
  9. ^ Tony Ruprecht: Toronto's Many Faces. Dundurn Verlag, 2010. ISBN 1-45971-805-4 . P. 119.
  10. ↑ Koloman, Msgr. MOULLION. 1909-1971. In: St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Cemetery.
personal data
SURNAME Moullion, Koloman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Canadian editor-in-chief of the magazine Jugendruf, expellees chaplain, dean, papal secret chamberlain
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Szilberek , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1971
Place of death Windsor, Ontario , Canada