Paul Jakobi

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Paul Jakobi on his 90th birthday.

Paul Jakobi (born January 17, 1928 ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian and publicist . From 1988 to 2004 he was provost at Minden Cathedral .

Career

The son of a judicial officer served as a youth as an air force helper and in the Reich Labor Service and was then taken prisoner of war . After graduating from high school in Lippstadt in 1947 , he studied theology and philosophy in Paderborn and Freiburg im Breisgau . On March 21, 1953, he was ordained a priest in Paderborn by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger .

Jakobi first worked as a vicar in Bochum and Paderborn. He then became diocesan youth pastor for the Archdiocese of Paderborn and head of the episcopal headquarters for youth pastoral care in Düsseldorf .

From 1968 to 1988 he was Federal President of the DJK . At the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 and in Los Angeles in 1984 , he was also active as a Catholic Olympic pastor. He then went back to the parish pastoral care and was provost at Minden Cathedral from 1988 to 2004, where he succeeded Wilhelm Garg.

Jakobi is the uncle of the state church lawyer Ansgar Hense .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • (With Hans Leo Drewes ) Youth without blinkers: Letters a. Core thoughts on the spiritual life for young people . Wuerzburg 1965.
  • Young Church: bibl. Considerations over the course of the year. Munich 1974. ISBN 3-7904-0102-1
  • (Associate Editor) Sports and Religion. Mainz 1986. ISBN 3-7867-1260-3
  • So that happiness takes root: stories, fairy tales and poems, open to discussion in schools, communities and youth work. Fourth edition. Paderborn 1993. ISBN 3-7867-1282-4
  • What devout Catholics believe today: a church answers . Paderborn 2001. ISBN 3-89710-167-X
  • Minden Cathedral - a witness of faith. 2nd Edition. Bonifatius, 2005, ISBN 3-00-015541-4 .
  • Preach the Gospel: Thoughts and Suggestions for the Weekday Gospels . Paderborn 2010. ISBN 978-3-89710-463-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the DJK / About us
  2. ↑ Mindener Tageblatt of March 29, 2013 (main source for the biographical information)
  3. ^ Mindener Tageblatt of April 2, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Jakobi, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1928