Leopold Ungar

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Memorial plaque on the house where Leopold Hungary was born in Wiener Neustadt (Grazer Str. 106)

Leopold Ungar (born August 8, 1912 in Wiener Neustadt , Lower Austria , † April 30, 1992 in Vienna ) was a Catholic clergyman and head of Caritas Austria for many years .

Life

In 1935 he received his doctorate in law and entered the Vienna seminary . Because of his Jewish descent, he had to flee to France in 1938. In 1939 he was in Paris for ordained priests . In 1940 he fled to England from the National Socialists . In 1947 he returned to Austria and became a chaplain in Meidling ( Vienna ) and in 1948 on the Wieden (Vienna). In 1950 he became head of Caritas in the Archdiocese of Vienna and, among other things, organized aid for the refugees of the Hungarian uprising in 1956 .

On December 1, 1988, he handed over management to Helmut Schüller . From 1964 to 1991 he was President of Caritas Austria.

In 1953 he was made monsignor and in 1963 prelate . Ungar, who owned a private library of about 3,000 books, died of cancer on April 30, 1992.

Grave of Leopold Ungar

His grave is in the Kahlenberg cemetery in Josefsdorf .

Recognitions

Works

  • Editor of: Feed the Hungry, Comfort the Sad. Experiences, considerations, experiments of a contemporary Caritas . Herder, Vienna et al. 1978, ISBN 3-210-24562-2
  • The worldview of God . Ephelant, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-900766-00-2

literature

  • Katharina Kniefacz: Leopold Ungar. In: University of Vienna (ed.): Memorial book for the victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna in 1938. ( online , accessed on August 3, 2015).
  • Franz Richard Reiter (ed.): Who was Leopold Ungar? Ephelant, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-900766-08-8
  • Rainer Rosenberg: Leopold Ungar. Can we hear with the heart? In: The lexicon for Austria in 20 volumes. Volume 18. Duden, Mannheim et al. 2006, ISBN 3-411-17620-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100 years of Leopold Ungar, Orientation, ORF , August 5, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Hungarian, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Catholic clergyman and longstanding head of Caritas in the Archdiocese of Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1992
Place of death Vienna