Nikolaus Pieger

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Nikolaus Pieger , also Nicolaus Pieger , (born July 2, 1900 in Kirchehrenbach , Forchheim district , † June 5, 1983 ) was a German Roman Catholic prelate . He was the founder of the chaplaincy service in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Life

After attending the Bamberg and Forchheim grammar schools, Nikolaus Pieger studied Catholic theology at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . Since 1921 he was a member of the Catholic student union KDSt.V. Gothia Wuerzburg . In 1925 he was ordained a priest and was chaplain from September 1, 1925 to March 16, 1929 in St. Heinrich in Fürth. In 1932 he became a pastor and German pastor in Bucharest .

Nikolaus Pieger was appointed in 1941 by Markus Glaser , who on November 15, 1941 "was appointed head of the Catholic mission in the occupied territory ( Bessarabia and Transnistria ) and after 10 days Prelate Glaser became the Apostolic Visitator of Transnistria " as his vicar general . Nikolaus Pieger found support in his work as vicar general by the young priest Walter Kampe (from 1952 auxiliary bishop in Limburg).

Glaser and Pieger were under observation by the head of Sonderkommando R , Horst Hoffmeyer . They were also on the Soviet Union's "negative list" because they had baptized Jews and - with the knowledge of the Roman Curia - supplied Jewish ghettos in Transnistria with medication. After being imprisoned in Russia from 1944 to 1945, he returned to Germany in 1946.

From 1946, Nikolaus Pieger was committed to building up pastoral care for the Russian Germans and thus founded the pastoral care of emigrants in the Federal Republic. In 1977 the pastoral care center of the German Bishops' Conference for German Catholics from Russia was created.

Nikolaus Pieger was the parish priest in St. Heinrich in Fürth and the St. Nikolaus branch in Fürberg; from 1946 to 1950 he was director of the Pirkheimer Haus in Nuremberg. In 1965 he was appointed pastor of the Catholic Russian-Germans.

In 1957 he was appointed Knight of the Papal Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested in Munich on April 30, 1957 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . He belonged to the Commandery of Nuremberg.

Honors

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  • Karl Ulrich (author), Wolfgang Handrik (ed.): The Catholic parishes of Nuremberg and Fürth in the 19th and 20th centuries. St. Otto-Verlag, 1989, p. 278 f.

Fonts

  • The German Catholics in the Altreich and in the Dobrudscha. In: The Faithful. 1933, p. 117 or 1934, pp. 48-59.
  • The religious conditions in southern Ukraine (Transnistria). In: J. Schnurr: The churches and the religious life of the Russian Germans. Pp. 43-51.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rainer Bendel : Displaced persons find a home in the church: Integration processes in divided Germany after 1945. Böhlau, 2008, p. 413.
  2. ↑ St. Martin Nürnberg: parish chronicle from 1953. viewed on January 9, 2014.
  3. ^ Ernst Christoph Suttner: Markus Glaser and Alexander Frison: two witnesses of faith among our Confratres majores. P. 9.
  4. ^ Ernst Christoph Suttner: Markus Glaser and Alexander Frison: two witnesses of faith among our Confratres majores. (PDF), accessed on January 9, 2014.
  5. ↑ Andrej Angrick, Ulrich Prehn: Occupation Policy and Mass Murder: Task Force D in the Southern Soviet Union 1941-1943. Hamburger Edition , 2003, p. 271 ff.
  6. ^ Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe Institute Munich. F. Steiner Verlag, 1997, p. 76 ff.
  7. ↑ On the history of nationwide repatriation pastoral care , Diocese of Augsburg , viewed on January 9, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Pieger, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pieger, Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic prelate
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchehrenbach , Forchheim district
DATE OF DEATH June 5th 1983