Lothar Schlegel (clergyman)

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Lothar Hans Peter Schlegel (born June 8, 1941 in Freimarkt in Warmia ) is a German Catholic clergyman, apostolic visitor and cathedral capitular .

Life

Lothar Schlegel was born in Freimarkt (today Wolnica ) in the Heilsberg district in 1941 as the son of Johannes Schlegel and Lucia Schlegel, née Wölke. In the course of the flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe in 1945 , the family came to Westphalia and lived in the parish of St. Lambertus (Castrop-Rauxel) . After graduating from high school in 1962, Lothar Schlegel studied theology in Paderborn and at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . He was ordained a priest in Paderborn in September 1968 by Archbishop Lorenz Cardinal Jäger . In 1971 he became a grammar school teacher for Catholic religious studies and social sciences at the Otto Hahn grammar school in Herne, most recently as a senior teacher there . Lothar Schlegel received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Münster in 1992 . In his doctoral dissertation he dealt with the judgment theory of the Königsberg philosophy professor Friedrich Ueberweg .

From 1990 he was a member of the Warmia Consistory , which succeeds the Warmia Cathedral Chapter , and after 1994 he was Vice Dean of the Consistory. The Warmia Bishop Edmund Piszcz from Olsztyn appointed Lothar Schlegel as honorary canon of Frombork in 1998 . He has been a member of the Bischof Maximilian Kaller Foundation since 1998. In 2000 he was appointed Apostolic Visitator for the Ermländer, and in 2002 he was appointed Pontifical Honorary Chaplain with the title of Monsignor .

Visitator Lothar Schlegel, who had been responsible for the Gdansk regions of origin and the Free Prelature Schneidemühl since 2010 , was retired from his post on October 4, 2011 due to old age. The office remained vacant before the German Bishops' Conference announced in 2013 that it no longer wanted to appoint a visitor to Warmia, Danzig and Schneidemühl. At the end of 2016, all visitors were removed from the Vatican without replacement .

In August 2013, Monsignor Schlegel was introduced to his role as a subsidiary of the St. Lambertus parish (Castrop-Rauxel) in the South Pastoral Association.

Publications

  • Theory of judgment by Friedrich Ueberweg (= university papers , volume 34). (also dissertation at the University of Münster (Westphalia) 1992). Lit Verlag, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-89473-329-2 .
  • People in breaking worlds. Fundamental pastoral and historical analyzes of work with expellees from Warmia after 1945 (= contributions to theology, church and society in the 20th century , volume 29). Lit Verlag, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-13706-7 .

literature

  • Lothar Schlegel in; Alfred Penkert : Higher powers have decided. Flight, expulsion and arrival of East Prussian Catholics as reflected in their correspondence with Bishop Maximilian Kaller. With an outline of the Warmia post-war history (= Contributions to Theology, Church and Society in the 20th Century , Volume 15). Lit Verlag, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1227-0 , pp. 443ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rüdiger Hagenbucher: Back in St. Lambertus. The West, August 25, 2013, archived from the original on July 21, 2018 ; accessed on July 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schlegel, Lothar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlegel, Lothar Hans Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic clergyman, apostolic visitor and cathedral chapter
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Freimarkt , Warmia