Ludwig Hellriegel

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Ludwig Hellriegel (born April 3, 1932 in Bensheim ; † October 13, 2011 in Malching ) was a German Catholic priest and church historian .

Life

After attending elementary school and high school in Bensheim, training and work as a carpenter and organ builder , studying philosophy and theology at the University of Notre Dame , Indiana, at the seminar of the Benedictine Abbey Conception, Missouri and at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . 1977 Doctorate to Dr. theol. (Dissertation: Benedictines as pastors in the left bank of the Rhine in the former Archdiocese of Mainz from the end of the 17th century to the beginning of the 19th century ). After ordination in 1962, worked as a temporary worker in Mainz, Mainz-Gustavsburg and Darmstadt, as a chaplain in Mainz-Bretzenheim and Butzbach, as a pastor in Schwabenheim an der Selz (1969–1978), Mpika / Zambia (1978/79) and Gau-Algesheim (1979-1997). In retirement, Pastor Ludwig Hellriegel devoted himself to his scientific projects and worked as a pastor in various communities in the dioceses of Mainz, Trier and Munich-Freising. Ludwig Hellriegel was buried in a centrally located grave in the cemetery in Gau-Algesheim.

Services

  • Author of numerous writings on local and regional history, the regional history of the Jews and the Catholic Church during National Socialism
  • Collaboration as a representative of the Diocese of Mainz at the German Martyrology of the 20th Century from 1995
  • Initiator and founder of the Carl-Brilmayer-Society for the research and maintenance of the history of the Gau-Algesheim area (1981)

Honors

  • Spiritual advice
  • Honorary Presidency of the Catholic Church Music Gau-Algesheim (1997)
  • Heimatliteraturpreis of the Vereinigung der Heimatfreunde am Mittelrhein (2000)
  • Honorary member of the Carl Brilmayer Society (2002)

Fonts

in selection

  • Ludwig Hellriegel with the collaboration of Peter Fleck and Christof Duch (eds.): Resistance and persecution in the parishes of the Diocese of Mainz 1933–1945, (Public Relations Department of the Episcopal Ordinariate Mainz) in cooperation with the Carl-Brilmayer-Gesellschaft Gau-Algesheim, 5 Volumes, Mainz 1989 ff.
  • Ludwig Hellriegel: Judaica. The history of the Gau-Algesheim Jews, publication by the Carl-Brilmayer-Gesellschaft Gau-Algesheim, 3rd expanded edition 2008
  • Helmut Moll (ed.): Witnesses for Christ. The German Martyrology of the 20th Century, 2 volumes; Paderborn: Schöningh, 5th supplemented and updated edition 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Hellriegel, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensheim
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2011
Place of death Malching