Paul Hoppe (clergyman)

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Paul Hoppe (born June 22, 1900 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ; † September 25, 1988 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Catholic clergyman, most recently capitular vicar of the Diocese of Warmia .

Life

The mother Hedwig Hoppe, nee Katschrowski, came from Wormditt , the father Alois Hoppe from Rößel . The son Paul spent his childhood and early adolescence in Berlin-Charlottenburg and then in Allenstein , where he attended the humanistic grammar school and passed the Abitur in 1920. He then studied theology at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau and in the Lyceum Hosianum seminary in Braunsberg . The ordination received Paul Hoppe of the Warmia Bishop Augustine Bludau on 19 July 1925 at the woman Strasbourg Cathedral .

After 1925 he was employed as a chaplain in Rastenburg , the St. Nikolai Church in Elbing , from 1935 in Goldap and since 1938 at the Church of the Holy Family in Königsberg . In Königsberg he was head of the St. Katharina Hospital in Oberhaberberg . After the war he stayed in Kaliningrad and was appointed vicar general for the Soviet-occupied northern part of the Diocese of Warmia in 1945 by Bishop Maximilian Kaller .

After being expelled from Kaliningrad Oblast on November 30, 1947 by the Soviet authorities, he moved to the British occupation zone and worked as a clergyman in Wilster in Holstein . In December 1956 it to the Capitular appointed Arthur Kather the consistory . On July 29, 1957 he was appointed vicar of the capitulars, succeeding Arthur Kather, and was henceforth a member of the German Bishops' Conference (DBK). The Holy See appointed him Pontifical House Prelate on August 16, 1958 . Paul Hoppe was a member of the Catholic Refugee Council . In 1961 the Warmia headquarters was relocated from Honeburg Castle, north of Osnabrück-Haste , to the Warmia House in Münster . Paul Hoppe traveled to Rome in 1964 and took part in the Second Vatican Council . On October 1, 1965 he was appointed Apostolic Protonotary by the Pope .

With the reorganization of the former East German dioceses with effect from June 28, 1972, Paul Hoppe's office as capitular vicar ended. At the same time he was appointed by the Pope as Apostolic Visitator for priests and believers from the Diocese of Warmia. The appointment took effect on October 23, 1972. At the age of 75, he offered the Pope his resignation, which was accepted. His successor was Johannes Schwalke . After retirement in 1975, he lived in lands and from 1977 in Freiburg-Kappel . The German Bishops' Conference awarded him the Boniface plaque in 1982 . He celebrated his 60th priestly jubilee with jubilee mass in July 1985.

In 1986, Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker awarded Paul Hoppe the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Cross of Merit . On July 30, 1988 he received the Prussian shield from the East Prussian Landsmannschaft .

Awards and honors

  • 1945: Appointment as Vicar General
  • 1957: Appointed vicar capitular in Warmia
  • 1958: Appointment as papal house prelate
  • 1965: Appointed Apostolic Protonotary
  • 1982: Boniface plaque of the German Bishops' Conference
  • 1985: Diamond jubilee for priests
  • 1986: Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Cross of Merit
  • 1988: Prussian shield of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Penkert : Warmia in the dispersion . Ed .: Bischof-Maximilian-Kaller-Stiftung eV Münster 2000, p. 139 .