Peter Gumpel

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Kurt Peter Gumpel SJ (born November 15, 1923 in Hanover ) is a German Jesuit and church historian .

Life

Under the National Socialist rule, he and several members of his family were expropriated because of their Jewish origins and persecuted by the National Socialists. He had to flee twice, first to France in 1933 and then to the Netherlands in 1938 , where he was accepted into the Jesuit boarding school in Nijmwegen under a false name and stayed until the end of the war. After the war he came to Rome, where he was ordained a priest in September 1952.

From 1947 he was a tutor at the Germanicum in Rome. He received his doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1964 . Gumpel was professor of "History and Theology of Catholic Spirituality" at the Gregoriana. From 1960 he was deputy general postulator of the Jesuit order. From 1972 to 1983 he was theological judge of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints . From 1983 to 2013 he was the relator in the beatification process of Pius XII.

Positions

Gumpel expressed his regret that well-known Catholic personalities and groups had the beatification of Pius XII. questioned and Jewish groups opposed the beatification process. In this context, Gumpel told an Austrian newspaper that it was an indisputable historical fact that many of the Bolsheviks who persecuted the Catholic and Orthodox Churches in Russia were Jews.

family

The family origin of Peter Gumpel is unclear, rumor has it that he comes from the Hohenzollern family , which he denies. He claims to come from a "very rich and very influential family" and to have changed his name. He had to promise the Society of Jesus not to speak about his origins. Research by the HAZ, on the other hand, revealed: “Gumpel grew up in a villa in Hannover-Kleefeld. His father had converted to Catholicism, but because of his Jewish roots, the family had to flee Germany during the Nazi era. His grandfather, a banker, died in Theresienstadt. ”After that he would be the grandson of the banker and Hindenburg advisor Julius Gumpel and son of the banker Kurt Gumpel and his wife Olga Gumpel nee. Dahl (1889-1947).

Fonts (selection)

  • Kurt Peter Gumpel: Actus moraliter boni. A contribution to the knowledge of the doctrine of grace of Gregory of Rimini († 1358). 1973 (Dissertation, Gregoriana, 1964), OCLC 62578479 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FOCUS Online: Saint Pius XII. In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on November 21, 2016]).
  2. ↑ https://books.google.de/books?id=AT48-nPbbagC&pg=PA110&dq=Peter+Gumpel&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwisha2suaDrAhUE2KQKHd25BHgQ6AEwAnoECAgQAg#v=onfGalse .Peter% 20
  3. ↑ Who does not want the beatification of Pius XII? , Niedziela / Sunday, 21/2007, accessed on July 18, 2015.
  4. ^ Hilary White: Papal Postulator Relates Vicious Media Bias against Catholic Church. LifeSiteNews.com, February 13, 2009, accessed October 29, 2017 .
  5. ^ Vatican official criticizes Jews , National Catholic Reporter , December 11, 1998, accessed July 18, 2015.
  6. ^ Paul Badde : Interview with Father Gumpel on Pius XII. , Rome direct, EWTN , published on YouTube on December 14, 2013, especially from 11:40 pm, accessed on July 18, 2015.
  7. ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: Church canonized former Popes John Paul II and John XXIII - HAZ - Hannoversche Allgemeine. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Gumpel, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gumpel, Kurt Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit, church historian, university professor and curia official
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover