Sigfrid Klöckner

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Sigfrid Klöckner OFM (born  February 23, 1929 in Höchst as Erich Klöckner ; †  February 7, 2017 in Fulda ) was a German Franciscan .

Life

Klöckner was the son of the married couple Karl and Therese Klöckner nee Pfeifer. He had five siblings; the father was a railroad worker. After the end of World War II , he attended the boarding school of the Franciscans in Hadamar and made at the local high school , the high school. In 1949 he entered the Thuringian Franciscan Province ( Thuringia ) and was given the religious name Sigfrid. After the novitiate in Salmünster , he studied philosophy in Sigmaringen-Gorheim from 1950 to 1952 and theology in Fulda from 1952 to 1956 , where he made his solemn profession in 1953 and was ordained a priest in 1955 by Auxiliary Bishop Adolf Bolte .

This was followed by a doctoral degree in moral theology in Mainz . After receiving his doctorate on the Franciscan theologian Bartholomäus Mastrius von Meldola (1602–1673), he was lecturer for moral theology at the Philosophical-Theological University of Thuringia in Fulda from 1961 and from 1968 to 1970, after a reorganization of the studies of the German Franciscan provinces, at the university the Franciscans in Munich. At the same time he was from 1967 to 1970 master's degree for the students of the Thuringian order province. From 1968 to 1979 he held the office of cathedral preacher at the Fulda Cathedral , and from 1979 he was spiritual director of the Catholic men's organization in Germany for several years.

On July 7, 1970, he was elected Provincial Chapter to the Provincial Minister of the Franciscan Province of Thuringia; In 1976 he was re-elected in this office until 1979. Due to the Second Vatican Council , his term of office was marked by structural and substantive changes in the order province and in the entire order. He attached particular importance to the spiritual education of the brothers. Between 1971 and 1979 he was repeatedly involved as a moderator in the general chapters of the order.

After the end of his tenure as provincial he took over the management and spiritual profiling of the retreat house of the order province Thuringia in Hofheim am Taunus from 1979 to 1988 ; from 1988 to 2004 he headed the retreat house in the Salmünster monastery. After the Salmünster monastery was closed in 2004, he worked as a preacher and consultant in theological adult education in Fulda.

publication

  • The doctrine of the eternal law in Bartholomäus Mastrius von Meldola. The principles of the lex aeterna. (= Franciscan Research 18) Dietrich-Coelde-Verlag, Werl 1964 (= Dissertation, Mainz 1961)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ P. Sigfrid Klöckner deceased (bistum-fulda.de)
  2. ↑ franziskaner.net: Obituary in the Book of the Dead of the German Franciscan Province , including further information.
personal data
SURNAME Klöckner, Sigfrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klöckner, Erich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Franciscan
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Maximum
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2017
Place of death Fulda