Petrus Wacker
Petrus Wacker (born August 1, 1868 in Kickenbach ; † January 1, 1952 in Reiningue ) was a German Cistercian and from 1912 to 1949 abbot of Oelenberg Abbey .
Life
Wacker studied theology in Münster and joined the Oelenberg Abbey in 1891. In 1897 he was ordained a priest in Rome and received his doctorate in canon law in 1898, which he taught in the following years at the Ölenberg home school. In 1908 he was elected subprior and in 1912 abbot.
During his tenure, Ölenberg Abbey was destroyed and rebuilt twice, during World War I and World War II . For the German monks who could no longer stay in Alsace after the First World War , he founded a new monastery in Engelszell Abbey in Upper Austria in 1925 under the direction of his secretary Gregor Eisvogel .
In 1949 Wacker resigned from office due to reasons of age. He died in 1952 after several strokes.
literature
- Paul Stintzi: Oelenberg. 900 years of history of the abbey (1046–1954) (= Alsatica Monastica 4). Westmalle 1962.
- Klaus Zacharias: From Paderborn to Alsace. The old Theodorians Franziskus Strunk and Petrus Wacker as abbots of the Trappist Abbey in Ölenberg . In: Yearbook for Central German Church and Order History 4, 2008, pp. 249-257.
Web links
- Petrus Wacker in the Biographia Cisterciensis , version of January 31, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wacker, Petrus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Cistercian, abbot of the Oelenberg monastery |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kickenbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1952 |
| Place of death | Reiningue |