Peter Joseph Lausberg

Auxiliary Bishop Lausberg

Peter Joseph Lausberg (born November 30, 1852 in Hoengen ; † September 30, 1922 in Cologne ) was auxiliary bishop in Cologne .

Life

After attending the Aachen collegiate school and the Quirinus grammar school in Neuss , Lausberg studied theology in Münster , whereupon he attended the Cologne seminary . On November 21, 1875 in Cologne priests ordained , he received due to the Kulturkampf no employment within the Archdiocese of Cologne, he that in the diocese of Liege ( Belgium ) had to dodge. Here he was chaplain in Voeren from 1876 to 1880 , then a teacher at the high school for Lazarists and then at the high school for girls of the daughters of St. Cross in Theux . From 1889 he was cathedral vicar in Cologne and at the same time chancellery at the general vicariate . After he became pastor at St. Mary's Conception in Düsseldorf in 1893 , he was appointed president of the seminary in Cologne in 1900 by Archbishop Hubert Theophil Simar . At the Essen Katholikentag in 1906, he gave a much-noticed lecture on The Question of Women . After Archbishop Felix von Hartmann had appointed him to the Cologne Cathedral Chapter in 1914 , the Pope appointed him titular bishop of Thyatira and auxiliary bishop in Cologne on May 1, 1914 . Archbishop Karl Joseph Schulte appointed Lausberg as cathedral dean in 1921.

The Dr.-Lausberg-Straße in the Hoengen district of Warden , today the city of Alsdorf , is named after him.

Web links

• Entry on Peter Joseph Lausberg on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical data, obituary, birth and death certificates in the Euregio family book.
2. ^ Ephrem Filthaut, Deutsche Katholikentage 1848-1959 and social question. Essen 1960, p. 196.