Paul Bocklet

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Paul Bocklet (born August 21, 1928 in Salz , Lower Franconia; † June 3, 2009 in Würzburg ) was a Roman Catholic prelate . He was referred to as the “pastor of politics”.

Life

Paul Bocklet attended the Kilianeum from 1939 , later the old grammar school in Würzburg (today Wirsberg grammar school ). After serving as an air force helper and doing labor and military service, he became an American prisoner of war . In 1947 he was able to obtain his Abitur. He studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In 1952 he was ordained a priest by Julius Döpfner . In 1968 he was appointed rural pastor for all of Bavaria. In 1969, Bocklet was appointed to the Würzburg cathedral chapter as the youngest cathedral chapter in Bavaria . In 1977 he was made an honorary papal prelate .

From 1977 to 2000 he was head of the commissariat of the German bishops in Bonn and for a short time in Berlin and responsible for the church's links with the federal government and parliament. He was also head of the Catholic Central Agency for Development Aid , chairman of the German Justitia et Pax Commission , and co-chairman of the Evangelical-Catholic Joint Conference on Church and Development (GKKE) . He was also chairman of the working group for social groups in the House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany.

From its founding in 2001 until his death in 2009, he was the chairman of the advisory board of the KNA-Promedia-Stiftung , a funding initiative for young Catholic journalists. Together with the then director of the Neuss newspaper publisher, Alfons Kranz , and the then managing director of the Katholische Nachrichten-Agentur (KNA), Richard W. Orth , he initiated the KNA-Promedia-Stiftung in 2001, a funding initiative for young Catholic journalists.

Bocklet died in the Würzburg Juliusspital and was buried in his home town of Salz in the Rhön-Grabfeld district.

Act

He has received several awards for his work as a representative of the bishops in political Bonn. Chancellor Angela Merkel paid tribute to Paul Bocklet's life's work in a letter of condolence and said that he had “made a lasting contribution to the good relationship between church and politics”, former Chancellor Helmut Kohl spoke of an “unforgettable man”. Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder called him on his 75th birthday in 2003 as a “priest and pastor, spiritual guide and intelligent mediator between church and politics”.

He was a member of the Catholic student union K.St.V. Normannia Würzburg in the Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Associations .

honors and awards

Fonts

  • Our commitment to the core values . Association of old KVer 1987, ISBN 3927545570 .
  • Too many strangers in the country? . Patmos 1990, ISBN 3491777968 .
  • Josef Heringer, Martin Held u. Paul Bocklet: Environment - Mitwelt - Creation: Churches and nature conservation . Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management 1991, ISBN 3924374643 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Pastor of Politics" is dead , June 5, 2009
  2. ↑ Thilo Zimmermann: “Funding initiative for young journalists. Searching for traces in the bush of Papua New Guinea ” , NGZ, December 23, 2002
  3. ^ "Journalists Foundation honors its founder Alfons Kranz" , Rheinische Post , April 5, 2016
  4. ^ "Unforgettable" Prelate Bocklet has died , Vatican Radio , June 5, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Bocklet, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prelate
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Salt (Lower Franconia)
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 2009
Place of death Wurzburg