Leopold Achberger

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Leopold Achberger in his time as superintendent (around 1963)

Leopold Achberger (born August 27, 1903 in Preßburg , Austria-Hungary , † January 3, 1994 in Graz ) was an Austrian Evangelical Lutheran pastor. From 1947 to 1969 he was the first superintendent of the Evangelical Superintendent AB Steiermark .

Life

Leopold Achberger was born the son of a Catholic and a Lutheran in Blumenthal, a suburb of Pressburg. In 1922 he began studying Protestant theology at the University of Vienna , which he completed in 1928. In 1930 he became a pastor in the Christ Church in Gröbming in Styria and in the same year married the qualified pediatric nurse Erika Wetjen. On January 1, 1947, the Superintendent of Styria was established as a separate diocese , whose parishes had previously formed a senior council of the Superintendent of Vienna . On April 28, 1946, Leopold Achberger, who had previously headed the official business of the Styrian senior council, was elected the first superintendent of the new diocese. Graz was intended to be the seat of the diocese , but for ecclesiastical and organizational reasons the superintendent could not be provided with an official apartment in the city. Achberger was forced to resign from his post on July 31, 1947. On September 9, 1947, the Styrian Superintendent's Assembly declared a state of emergency and relocated the superintendent's office to Gröbming, Achberger's home community. In 1948 his son Friedrich Achberger was born, who later worked as a literary historian and Germanist in the USA. Leopold Achberger was in charge of the superintendent's office in Gröbming until 1951, when, with the help of the Styrian governor Josef Krainer senior, an official apartment in Graz could be made available. There he was assigned to the Kreuzkirche as a pastor. In 1952 Achberger's first wife died and in 1954 he married Elise Treczak. In terms of church history, Achberger, who retired in 1969, like his Roman Catholic counterpart Josef Schoiswohl, is considered a pioneer of ecumenism in Styria.

Fonts (selection)

  • The unavoidable tasks of our church . Vienna 1973
  • Peter Rosegger and the Protestant Church . Vienna 1978
  • Festival ceremony for Wilhelm Kühnert . Vienna 1980
  • About the change in the relationship between the Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches in Austria since 1938 . Leipzig 1980
  • On the history of the Lyceum of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Pressburg . Leipzig 1980
  • Evangelical in Styria: Faith Struggle - Tolerance - Fraternity . Graz 1981
  • Peter Rosegger . Kassel 1984
  • Liturgy of the Church - a holistic and an Eastern Church event. Thoughts on an ecumenical liturgy . Graz 1993 - with Philipp Harnoncourt

Awards

See also

literature

  • Karl Amon and Maximilian Liebmann (Hrsg.): Church history of Styria . Styria, Graz 1993, ISBN 3-222-12183-4 .
  • Johannes Baptist Bauer : In memoriam Leopold Achberger . RM-Verlag, Graz 1994.
  • Herbert Rampler: Protestant pastors of Styria since the tolerance patent. A contribution to Austrian presbyteriology . Historical Provincial Commission for Styria, Graz 1998, ISBN 3-901251-11-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evangelical Church in Styria from the beginning until today
  2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Achberger, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Evangelical Lutheran Superintendent of Styria
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Pressburg
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1994
Place of death Graz