Robert Maeder

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Memorial plaque for Robert Mäder at the Heiliggeistkirche in Basel

Robert Mäder (born December 7, 1875 in Wolfwil , Canton Solothurn , † June 26, 1945 in Basel ) was a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian , pastor , pulpit speaker and conservative publicist .

Life

The son of an innkeeper and later a coachman attended grammar school in Engelberg , Lucerne and Schwyz . From 1894 to 1899 he studied theology in Innsbruck , Freiburg, Tübingen and Lucerne . Ordained a priest in 1899 , he first worked as vicar in Biberist . From 1901 to 1912 he was pastor in Mümliswil , where he also founded a loan office. In 1912 he was elected the first pastor of the newly founded Heiliggeist parish in Basel. He initiated the construction of a parish home and founded a Catholic primary school and the Theresien-Mittelschule in Basel. The Nazareth publishing house in Basel also went back to him.

Mäder was widely known as a pulpit speaker and strongly advocated conservative postulates. He railed against mixed marriages (with Protestants), women's suffrage , carnival and even exclaimed: "The rosary is our machine gun". Mäder condemned communism and socialism as well as the "pagan nationalism of the Volkish kind" of the National Socialists . Mäder was also a well-known religious writer.

The University of Freiburg im Üechtland awarded him an honorary doctorate .

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