Matthew Kaiser

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Matthäus Kaiser (born August 15, 1924 in Kirchweidach , Altötting district ; † August 15, 2011 in Pfarrkirchen ) was a German clergyman and Roman Catholic theologian and canon lawyer .

Life

Kaiser, the youngest of ten children from Wiesmeierhof in Kirchweidach, attended the boys' seminar in Passau from 1936 and then the Leopoldinum grammar school there . In 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a soldier . As a lieutenant in the reserve, he came to the Western Front in February 1945 and was seriously wounded. In January 1946 he returned from French captivity , where he had been a seminarist in the so-called barbed wire seminar of Chartres for three months . After studying theology and philosophy at the seminary Passau and the Ducal Georgianum in Munich he received in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Passau on 29 June 1951 ordination . He was then a chaplain in Vilshofen . In 1955 he was at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to Theologiae Doctor doctorate (Dr. theol.). In 1956 he obtained a licentiate in canon law (Lic. Iur. Can.).

From November 1, 1956, Kaiser taught canon law at the Philosophical-Theological University of Passau . After his habilitation in 1964, he was appointed associate professor . In 1965 he moved to the Ruhr University Bochum as a full professor for systematic theology and canon law and in 1968 to the University of Regensburg . In 1989 he retired .

Together with Karl-Heinz Pollok , he is considered one of the two founding fathers of the University of Passau. Due to his experience in building up the universities of Bochum and Regensburg, Kaiser was appointed by the Bavarian state government to the structural advisory board for building the university in 1974 and was its chairman from 1978. He was the head of the first appointment committees of the Catholic theological, legal, economic and philosophical faculties and was responsible for the first generation of professors.

Kaiser was legal advisor to the bishops of Passau and the vicariate general. He was a part-time church attorney and judge at the church court of the Diocese of Passau (1961, 1966, 1970, 1961 to 1965). He was a member of the AG Canon Law of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Kaiser lived in Sinzing near Regensburg from 1967 to 2009 and worked there as a part-time pastor in the parish of the Assumption of Mary, parallel to his teaching activities and his participation in supraregional theological committees. He was a valued preacher and committed church member. In his lectures he repeatedly pointed out the shortcomings of the time and defended the values ​​of the Christian faith.

After moving away from Sinzing for health reasons, he spent the last years of his life in a retirement home in Pfarrkirchen . He was buried in the priest's grave in the parish church of St. Vitus in Kirchweidach.

Awards and honors

Fonts

  • The unity of church power according to the testimony of the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers , K. Zink 1956
  • Good faith in the Codex juris canonici , M. Hüber 1965
  • Contributions to the theology of marriage , Butzon & Bercker 1971, ISBN 3-7666-8507-4 , together with Wolfgang Beinert, Franz Böckle
  • The validity of basic rights in the church area: The administrative jurisdiction in the Protestant Church , Aschendorf 1972, ISBN 3-402-03257-0 , together with Wolfgang Rüfner, Erich Ruppel
  • Divorced and remarried: Judging the marriages of divorced people who remarry , F. Pustet 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0866-X
  • Contributions to canon law , Catholic Academy Schwerte 1984, together with Heiner Grote, Richard Puza
  • The marriage law of the church , cathedral school 1988

literature

  • Law as Salvation Service , dedicated to Matthäus Kaiser on the occasion of his 65th birthday by his friends, colleagues and students / ed. by Winfried Schulz, Bonifatius Verlag Paderborn 1989, ISBN 3-87088-593-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.bistum-regensburg.de/fileadmin/redakteur/Sterbemitteilungen/2011_Matthaeus_Kaiser_Pfarrkirchen.PDF
  2. ^ "Founding father of the University of Passau dead" , Bürgerblick Passau, 23 August 2011.
  3. ^ "The University of Passau says goodbye to one of its founding fathers" ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Passau live, August 23, 2011.
  4. ↑ a b c Matthäus Kaiser has passed away ( memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Chiemgau online, accessed on August 31, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and Roman Catholic theologian and canon lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchweidach , Altötting district
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 2011
Place of death Parish churches