Konrad Algermissen

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Konrad Algermissen (born August 19, 1889 in Harsum ; † October 22, 1964 in Hildesheim ) was a German Catholic dogmatist , moral theologian, lecturer in diocesan history, sociologist, publicist and ecumenist .

Life

He attended the Josephinum grammar school in Hildesheim and studied at the universities in Freiburg and Rome ( Gregoriana ), where he received his doctorate , and then returned to Hildesheim, where he was ordained a priest in 1916 . In 1926 he headed the " Apologetics " department in the Volksverein for Catholic Germany . With many lectures and essays he campaigned for ecumenism and against sectarianism and the Bolshevik danger . As cathedral vicar , he received a position as a lecturer at the episcopal seminary in Hildesheim in 1934 and became professor of dogmatics and moral theology there in 1936.

Publications

In the late autumn of 1934 he published the book Germanentum und Christianentum - A Contribution to the History of German Piety , which was to be understood as an answer to Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the 20th Century and the National Socialist Weltanschauung.

With this book he made no friends with the National Socialists. A special edition of the chapter Studies on Myth , published in 1934 , led to sanctions against him. The work was banned by the NSDAP in 1935; Institutions with which the author was affiliated had their financial resources withdrawn by the state. Algermissen was monitored from then on.

The book The Formative Forces of Christianity , already published in Czechoslovakia in 1938 , was banned after its publication, as were the sermons from 1940.

After the end of the war, Algermissen's book Bolshevism, the greatest ideological and ethical danger to mankind (Giesel, Hanover 1937) was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone .

Honors

On February 10, 1942, he was appointed Dome of Honor and, after the war, in 1946, papal secret chamberlain, and in 1954, cathedral capitular .

Works (selection)

  • Denomination . 8th edition, revised by Heinrich Fries, published by the Johann Adam Möhler Institute for Ecumenism. Bonifacius-Druckerei, Paderborn 1969, DNB 454558112 , new edition of: Christian sects and Church of Christ 1928, DNB 571990061 .
  • The godless movement of the present and its overcoming . Joseph Giesel, Hanover 1931; 2nd edition 1933.
  • Germanism and Christianity: a contribution to the history of German piety . Giesel, Hanover 1934.
  • The myth of the XX. Century . Special print after the 4th edition of Germanentum u. Christianity , Giesel, Hannover 1934. pp. 357–388.
  • The formative forces of Christianity in the development of the German people . Schlusche, Freudenthal , ČSR 1938.
  • Sermons at the time . 2nd, improved edition. Borgmeyer, Hildesheim 1940.
  • Conscience and conscience responsibility in private and public life . Bitter, Recklinghausen 1946.
  • Church and the present: reflections on today's religious and cultural situation . 3. Edition. Giesel, Velle 1946.
  • Nietzsche and the Third Reich . Giesel, Celle 1946.
  • The developing human life under the protection of Christian ethics: to the dispute about § 218 StGB . 2nd, improved edition, Giesel, Celle 1947.
  • Jehovah's Witnesses . Giesel, Celle 1949.
  • Church history from the beginning to the present . Giesel, Celle 1956.
  • The sect of the present . Pattloch, Aschaffenburg 1960.
  • Lexicon of Marian Studies . Pustet, Regensburg 1967.

literature

  • Thomas Flammer:  Konrad Algermissen. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 6-17.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Professor Dr. Algermissen, the 1st chairman of the association . Association f. Local history in the Diocese of Hildesheim, 1959.
  • Renate Kumm: The Diocese of Hildesheim in the post-war period. Investigation of a diaspora diocese from the end of the Second World War to the Second Vatican Council (1945 to 1965). Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 2002, pp. 41–42.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c cf. Hans-Jürgen Rösgen: Maximilian Kaller, Bishop of Warmia. In: Awakening in the Memory of the Church: Studies on the History of Christianity in Central and Eastern Europe. Festschrift for Gabriel Adriányi . Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2000. p. 355, note 20.
  2. ^ List of literature to be discarded . Preliminary edition. Zentralverlag, Berlin 1946
personal data
SURNAME Algermissen, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Harsum
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1964
Place of death Hildesheim