Paul Mai (clergyman)

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Paul Mai (born April 11, 1935 in Breslau ) is a Roman Catholic priest, historian and former director of the Episcopal Central Archives in Regensburg .

Life

Paul Mai was born the son of a bank clerk on Wroclaw Cathedral Island . In the winter of 1945 he was expelled from there with his mother and found a new place of residence in Gangkofen in Lower Bavaria . On the mediation of the then local pastor Franz Xaver Jobst, he attended the Episcopal Study Seminar Sankt Wolfgang in Straubing , where Georg Friedrich Zimmermann worked as prefect at the time, and which he passed in 1954 with the final exam. He then studied Roman Catholic theology, art history and history in Munich and Regensburg. At the University of Munich he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1962 with a thesis on the Augustinian canon monastery Rohr . After attending the seminary, he was ordained a priest in Regensburg on June 29, 1962 and worked as a chaplain in Eggenfelden for a year .

From September 1963 to March 1967 he was prefect in the Regensburg study seminar St. Wolfgang . In 1967 he took over the position of Episcopal archivist and librarian in Regensburg and in 1971 took over the management of these episcopal institutions . Mai is chairman of the Association for Regensburg Diocesan History eV and honorary chairman of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg . Until 2015 he was chairman and managing director of the Institute for East German Church and Cultural History. Since 1977 he has chaired the Teutonic Order House in Regensburg. Mai works in many other committees and associations and has held the papal honorary title Monsignor since 1972 .

He belongs to the collegiate monastery St. Johann in Regensburg.

Problematic circumstances and processes

In April 2008 Paul Mai provoked public criticism with a previously known speech about the end of the war and the death of cathedral preacher Johann Maier . Mai equated the National Socialist concentration camps with the GDR prison in Bautzen . After protests, Mai removed the passages in question.

In 2016, Robert Werner reported clear indications that Paul Mai was involved in the role of victim in his youth as well as in the role of an agent in processes of educational abuse in church boarding schools in his time as prefect.

Works (in selection)

Publications in book form

As an author

  • The traditions, the documents and the oldest land fragments of the Rohr monastery 1133-1332 , (= sources and discussions on Bavarian history, New Series, Volume 21), Munich 1967, (also university publication Munich, Philosophical Faculty, dissertation from February 6, 1967) .
  • Sankt Michael in Bayern , 2nd, revised edition, Schnell and Steiner, Munich, Zurich 1979, ISBN 978-3-7954-0413-0
  • The Catholic Church as a cultural bearer in the Kelheim district (= Weltenburg Academy, History Group, Series Volume 2; 9), Weltenburg Academy, Kelheim Archaeological Museum, Abensberg 1983.
  • (Author), with Franz Hiltl (Author), Du Wundermann Germany. St. Wolfgang , a lamp of God in dark times , Schnell & Steiner, Munich, Zurich, 1989.
  • Blessed Theresia von Jesu Gerhardinger (1797–1879), A life for church and school . Catalogs and writings from the Bishop's Central Archives and the Bishop's Central Library Regensburg, Volume 13, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7954-1131-9
  • The Augustinian Canons in Bavaria. Then and now (= Augustinian Canons. Windesheim Congregation. Academy: Series of publications by the Academy of Augustinian Canons of Windesheim. Volume 4), Augustinian Canons Paring 1999, ISBN 978-3-9805469-4-2 .
  • with Stephan Acht: 800 years of the Teutonic Order of St. Aegid in Regensburg 1210–2010 , (exhibition catalog in the Episcopal Central Library in Regensburg), Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2010.
  • Institute for East German Church and Cultural History eV 1988 - 2010 (= research and sources on the church and cultural history of East Germany, Volume 43), Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20700-7 .
  • Memory of the Dead in the Catholic Regensburg , Josef Fink, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-898-70855-5 .

As editor

  • (Hrsg.), Stiftskapitel von St. Johann (Hrsg.), 850 years collegiate monastery for the Saints Johannes Baptist and Johannes Evangelist in Regensburg. 1127- 1977. Festschrift , Schnell & Steiner, Munich, 1977, ISBN 978-3-795-40409-3 .
  • (Ed.), Regensburg. From the beginnings till now. Exhibition in the Bischöfliches Zentralbibliothek Regensburg, July 18 to October 2, 2008 (Obermünster) (= Bischöfliches Zentralarchiv Regensburg (Volume 24)), Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-2087-1 .
  • (Ed.), With Werner Chrobak (Ed.), Konrad von Megenberg . Regensburg canon, cathedral priest and scholar (1309 - 1374). For the 700th birthday. Exhibition in the Episcopal Central Library Regensburg, August 27 to September 25, 2009 (= Regensburg Episcopal Central Archive, Catalogs and Writings, Volume 26), Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7954-2281-3 .
  • (Ed.), German Order. Coming Regensburg (ed.), Help, heal, fight back. 800 years of the Teutonic Order of St. Aegid in Regensburg . (= Paul Mai (Hrsg.) And Karl Hausberger (Hrsg.) Contributions to the history of the diocese of Regensburg. Supplement, volume 19), Verlag des Verein für Regensburg diocesan history Regensburg, Regensburg 2010.

Contributions

  • with Werner Chrobak: The Knabenkonvikt Obermünster - Westmünster in Regensburg . In: Albertus Magnus Gymnasium (Hrsg.): Festschrift zum Schuljubiläum , Regensburg 1988, pp. 313–329.
  • Reichsstift Obermünster in Regensburg then and now , publishing house of the Association for Regensburg Diocesan History, Regensburg 2008.

Literature to May

  • Werner Chrobak, Kurt Hausberger (ed.): Cultural work and church. Festschrift Msgr. Dr. Paul Mai on his 70th birthday (= contributions to the history of the Diocese of Regensburg, Volume 39), Verlag des Verein für Regensburg Diocesan History, Regensburg 2005.
  • Robert Werner: The Misconduct of Monsignor May. Violent excesses in the Obermünsterseminar , in: regensburg digital, 23 August 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Hausberger : Kulturarbeit und Kirche , (Festschrift Msgr. Dr. Paul Mai on his 70th birthday), Verlag des Verein für Regensburg Bishopric History, 2005, pp. 13-15.
  2. ↑ Christian Vieracker: The Episcopal Study Seminar St. Wolfgang in Regensburg , 1999, p. 153.
  3. ^ Seminar Cardinal Bertram (report of the "East and Central German Association of the CDU / CSU" from October 2009); http://www.siebenbuerger.de/zeitung/artikel/kultur/16037-ostdeutsche-kirchen_-und.html
  4. ↑ 800-Hundred Anniversary Celebration and Investiture in Regensburg (report of July 13, 2010, last accessed in Dec. 2013)
  5. ^ Report on the inclusion of Paul Mai in the chapter
  6. ↑ Scandal on April 23: Dr. Paul Mai had to change the commemorative speech In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung of April 23, 2008
  7. ^ Robert Werner, The mistakes of Monsignore May. Violent excesses in the Obermünsterseminar, in: regensburg digital, 23 August 2016
  8. ^ Robert Werner: The Misconduct of Monsignor May. Violent excesses in the Obermünsterseminar , in: regensburg digital, 23 August 2016
personal data
SURNAME May, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic priest and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw