Romuald Wolters
Romuald Wolters OSB (born April 20, 1888 in Bocket ; † January 11, 1973 in Viersen ) was a Benedictine and abbot of the Merkelbeek Abbey near Brunssum and the St. Benediktusberg Abbey in Vaals .
Life
Romuald Wolters entered the Merkelbeek Abbey after attending the monastery school and studied theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo in Rome . He was ordained a priest in 1912 and received his doctorate in theology in 1913. He was novice master until 1918 , then administrator until he was elected Abbot of Merkelbeek in 1920 to succeed Hermann Renzel .
Wolters moved the abbey in 1922/23 to Vaals near Aachen and in 1927 joined the Beuron congregation , whose Archabbot Raphael Walzer also took over the financial supervision of the indebted abbey. The Second World War put an end to the brief boom. Wolters was suspected of collaborating with the German occupiers. After the liberation of the Netherlands in 1944, the German monks were first interned and then expelled.
Since 1926 he was an honorary member of the Catholic student association KDStV Novesia Bonn .
After the war Wolters went to the General Hospital in Viersen as a pastor, where he died in 1973.
literature
- Heinz and Margret Hesse: traces of life. Dr. Romuald Wolters OSB 1888-1973 . Viersen: self-published, 2002
- Romuald Wolters in the Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolters, Romuald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Benedictine abbot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bocket |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1973 |
| Place of death | Viersen |