Martin Gritz

Martin Gritz (born September 23, 1916 in Namslau , Silesia , † June 21, 2002 in Munich ) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman and military vicar general .

Life

After high school he studied from 1935 at the University of Breslau Catholic theology and received on 28 July 1940, Archbishop Adolf Cardinal Bertram , the sacrament of Holy Orders . Released from military service for health reasons, he spent his time as chaplain in the Silesian and Sudeten German parishes of the Archdiocese of Breslau . He was interrogated by the Gestapo because of his “active pastoral care” on young people . Active in Sörgsdorf near Jauernig until 1946 , in the course of the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia he came to the Rottenburg diocese in Bietigheim , where he worked as a chaplain for expellees.

From 1947 he was a teacher at Wilhelmstift in Tübingen worked and moved in 1953 to the University of Tübingen , where he in 1955 with a thesis on the opinion of the Catholic church historian of Germany in the 19th century to the Renaissance and humanism to Dr. theol. received his doctorate . A postdoctoral project he did not pursue, as in 1958 the military rector and faculty at the school of the Bundeswehr in internal leadership in Koblenz was appointed.

In 1962 he was appointed vicar general and head of the military bishop's office to succeed Georg Werthmann . Under the military bishops Franz Hengsbach and Elmar Maria Kredel , he ensured legal protection of the military pastoral care in the Bundeswehr and promoted the lay apostolate among the soldiers in the community of Catholic soldiers . After retiring in 1980, he returned to scientific work. He accepted a teaching position at the University of Würzburg and held seminars on socio-ethical and constitutional issues. From 1986 to 1996 he was chairman of the advisory board for research into Catholic military chaplaincy.

Publications

• The position of the Catholic church historians in Germany in the nineteenth century on the Renaissance and humanism (dissertation), Tübingen 1955
• Our faith makes history. Our history picture, material booklet for life science lessons, Bonn 1961
• The goal of the story. Our history picture, material booklet for life science lessons, Bonn 1961
• Has the Church changed its attitude towards soldiers? Lecture sketch for the Catholic military chaplains , material booklet for life science lessons, Bonn 1969
• Vita exemplum - in pictures and parables. Commemoration for Hans Jürgen Brandt on the occasion of his 60th birthday , (Ed., With Irmingard Böhm), ​​Paderborn 1998, ISBN 978-3-89710-042-8

Web links

• Monica Sinderhauf: "World responsibility as a Christian duty ." 10 years ago Dr. Martin Gritz, Military Vicar General 1962 to 1981. Catholic Military Bishop's Office , 2012, accessed on January 27, 2017 . 
• Markus Seemann: An intellectual who is down to earth. On the 100th birthday of Military Vicar General Dr. Martin Gritz. Catholic Military Bishop's Office, 2016, accessed January 27, 2017 .