Lucius Teichmann

Lucius Teichmann OFM (born January 21, 1905 as Alfons Teichmann ; † March 8, 1996 in Warendorf ) was a German Franciscan , historian and religious superior .

Life

Alfons Teichmann attended the Franciscan College in Neisse and passed the school leaving examination in 1926 . He then entered the Silesian Franciscan Province of Silesia and received the religious name Lucius. He studied at the University of the Province of the Order in Wroclaw Carlo joke and was 1931 in Weidenau for ordained priests . At the University of Breslau doctorate he 1934 Dr. theol. with a thesis on “The Franciscan Observants in Silesia before the Reformation ”, then he was lecturer for patrology , church and religious history at the provincial studies in Glatz and religion teacher at the grammar school . As a pastor, he looked after the youth groups in the Bund New Germany and in the Heliand Bund .

Since the 1930s he was active in pastoral care, initially as the parish administrator of the Sorbian parish “St. Simon and Judas Thaddäus ”in Crostwitz ; therefore he was not called up for the armed forces . After the Second World War , he became parish vicar at the Heilig-Kreuz-Kapelle in Dresden- Klotzsche , where from 1947 to 1975 there was a Franciscan branch in place of a Poor Clare monastery .

As a result of the Second World War, the monasteries of the Silesian Franciscan Province east of Oder and Neisse became a Polish province. Lucius Teichmann was appointed provincial delegate for the western monasteries, who directed the monasteries in the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany from Berlin. He set up the provincial office in East Berlin, a branch in West Berlin's Franziskus Hospital , and commuted between the two locations. From West Berlin he occasionally undertook illegal flights to the Federal Republic in order to maintain contact with the brothers living there. When the Berlin Wall was built on August 13, 1961, he stayed at the convent in Hanover-Kleefeld and was unable to return to the GDR. He built a church, a monastery and a student dormitory with 80 places in Berlin-Tempelhof. After 1961 he devoted himself to researching the history of the order.

Publications

• The Franciscan Observants in Silesia before the Reformation. Antonius-Verlag, Breslau-Carlowitz 1934 (dissertation).
• Little stones from the stream. Sketches from life. Hönicke, Berlin 1979 (2nd edition: Little stones from the river. From the Third Reich and our neighbors in the east. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 1984).
• The Franciscan monasteries in Central and Eastern Germany 1223–1993 (former East Germany within the imperial borders from 1938). Benno Verlag, Leipzig 1995.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ st-martin-dresden.de: Klotzsche Chapel , accessed on March 31, 2020.
2. ↑ Joachim Schmiedl (Ed.): From the Kulturkampf to the beginning of the 21st century. (= History of the Saxon Franciscan Province from its foundation to the beginning of the 21st century , vol. 3) Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn-Munich-Vienna-Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76991-6 , p. 900.