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Robert Kümmert (born March 3, 1909 in Aschaffenburg ; † November 13, 1991 ) was Caritas Director in the Diocese of Würzburg from 1945 to 1969 and, since 1963, founder of the St. Josefs Stift Eisingen , an institution for the disabled near Würzburg .

Live and act

Taking care received in 1935 on his 26th birthday from the hands of Bishop Matthias Ehrenfried the priesthood . The young priest spent the Nazi era as a chaplain in Marktheidenfeld and Hammelburg , as a cooperator in Bad Brückenau and during the Second World War in Obereschenbach . After the collapse of the Third Reich, Bishop Matthias Ehrenfried brought him to Würzburg on August 1, 1945 and appointed him Caritas Director in the diocese, which was badly affected by the consequences of the war.

Until 1969, Kümmert worked as Caritas Director in the Caritas Association of the Diocese of Würzburg, which had been without leadership since 1927: within a few months he had school meals with up to 90,000 portions set up in all of Lower Franconia . A tracing service for war returnees and missing persons cleared up 36,000 cases in Würzburg alone. In January 1949 he founded the St. Bruno Factory on behalf of Bishop Julius Döpfner in order to create new apartments for the bombed out people. He initiated disaster relief, assisted late returnees with integration, set up the church tracing service, expanded the station mission, set up kindergartens and old people's homes and set up the Simonshof in the Rhön for non-residents. On March 1, 1969, Kümmert gave up the leadership of the Caritas Association.

In addition to the management of the Caritas Association, Kümmerts established the St. Josefs-Stift in Eisingen, for which he founded the “St. Josefs Foundation for the Disabled e. V. ”founded. In Würzburg a facility with over 300 places for mentally and multiply handicapped people was built. From the age of 60 to 70, he was the first chairman of the “St. Josefs Foundation for the Disabled eV” and pastor who looked after the disabled residents of the St. Josefs monastery.

Robert Kümmert died on November 13, 1991. Ten years after his death, the street that leads up to St. Josefs-Stift was named after him.

Honors

1966: Federal Cross of Merit, First Class
1970: Silver bread plate from the German Caritas Association and the Golden Seal of the City of Würzburg
1972: Bavarian Order of Merit
1979: Eisingen became an honorary citizen
1984: Liborius Wagner Medal
1985: Saint Bruno Medal
1988: Bavarian State Medal for Social Merit
1991: Lower Franconian District Medal

Publications

Josef Kuhn / Robert Kümmert: Franconian witnesses of faith. Life pictures of Franconian saints, helpers and witnesses of faith with special consideration of the diocese of Würzburg. 2nd edition, Mellrichstadt 1990.
Josef Kuhn: Robert Leopold cares. Life and work of a faith witness of our time. Mellrichstadt 1994.

Web links

Literature by and about Robert Kümmert in the catalog of the German National Library
St. Josef Stift

Individual evidence

↑ Klaus Witt City: church and state in the 20th century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 453–478 and 1304 f., Here: pp. 463–469: Under the sign of reconstruction - Julius Döpfner's time as Bishop of Würzburg (1948–1957).

personal data
SURNAME	Mind, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Catholic clergyman, Caritas director
DATE OF BIRTH	March 3, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aschaffenburg
DATE OF DEATH	November 13, 1991

[1] Klaus Witt City: church and state in the 20th century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 453–478 and 1304 f., Here: pp. 463–469: Under the sign of reconstruction - Julius Döpfner's time as Bishop of Würzburg (1948–1957).