Stanislaus-Edmund Szydzik

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Stanislaus-Edmund Szydzik (born January 17, 1915 in Brentau , † November 25, 2001 in Maulbach near Bad Münstereifel ) was a Catholic priest , prelate , theologian and student and academic chaplain.

His father died on the Western Front before he was born . He spent his childhood and first school years in Kurzebrack and Marienwerder (now Poland). From 1928 he lived in Berlin.

He obtained his Abitur in 1934 at the Friedrichs- and Humboldt-Gymnasium (languages: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French and English). In 1933/34 he was “Gaugraf” for Berlin and Western Pomerania in the “New Germany” union. As the only one in his school class, he was not in the Hitler Youth. Since he was a school war orphan, he would still have been allowed to study any subject. From the summer semester of 1934 he studied theology in Frankfurt / Main and in the same year continued his studies at the “Pontifical Gregorian University” in Rome. During this time he lived in the Pontificium Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum. He graduated from Philosophical Studies with Baccalaureats and Licentias.

On March 25, 1940, he was ordained a priest in Eichstätt by Bishop Michael Rackl. From 1940 to 1946 he was chaplain in Brandenburg / Havel - Holy Trinity and from 1940 to 1945 he worked as a Wehrmacht chaplain in Brandenburg an der Havel.

In 1946 because of interrogation and spying by the Russians, he was transferred from the Soviet occupation zone to Berlin, namely to St. Pius in the east and six months later because of further spying to West Berlin . 1946 St. Marien (Friedenau), 1951 Herz-Jesu (Berlin-Tegel) and St. Bernhard Dahlem.

other activities

• Since 1947 regular radio addresses: Rias Berlin, Sender Freies Berlin, Deutschlandfunk, Saarländischer Rundfunk and Radio Vatican.
• 1950 three-month study visit to the USA.
• 1951 co-founder of the Wannsee Home for Youth Work (now WannseeFORUM) in Berlin and as the first democratically elected chairman by the association members.
• Since 1957 honorary member of the Catholic student association "Tannenberg-Königsberg" in the KV in Berlin.
• 1954 Appointment as student chaplain by Bishop Wilhelm Weskamm.
• 1956 Construction and occupation of the Wilhelm-Weskamm-Haus student residence (Berlin-Charlottenburg, Suarezstrasse 15–17), built for 150 students from East and West. Residents of different religions and nations found a place of tolerance, encounter and lively discussions here. 1958 Extension building in Steifensandstrasse for predominantly Afro-Asian students.
• Three more houses were acquired in Berlin-Kladow, including the Carl-Sonnenschein-Akademie. These houses were used for training events, recreational stays and doctoral camps. There lectured u. a .: Father Oswald von Nell-Breuning, Prof. Emil Dovifat, Prof. Karl Rahner, Prof. Josef Pieper, Prof. Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde.
• The student pastor Szydzik made many contacts with the Free University and was commissioned by Marcel Reding to give lectures on questions of philosophy and theology.
• In 1960 he wrote his doctoral thesis on the subject of Ad imaginem dei - the doctrine of man's image in the image of God in Ambrose of Milan.
• In January 1961 he received his doctorate from the Free University.
• This was followed by the appointment by Cardinal Lorenz Jaeger , Paderborn, as spiritual rector of the Hegge , a Christian educational institution of the diocese. From 1961 he was also a member of the Johann Adam Möhler Institute for Ecumenism .
• In 1964 Szydzik was appointed to lead by the Catholic Academic Association. Supraregional work in all local associations and organization of major events, etc. a. in Essen, Munich, Freiburg and Münster.
• 1969 was the by Pope Paul VI. appointed papal honorary prelate.
• Until 1978 he was a member of the board of directors of the Salzburg University Weeks and also advised on congress events of the German Medical Association in Davos, Grado, Meran and London.
• Following on from the educational trips of the Catholic Academic Association in the 20s and 30s, he held an annual Rome seminar from 1968 onwards.
• In 1973 a first meeting took place with former Brandenburg youths during his first chaplaincy. Afterwards, the Brandenburg Circle of Friends met annually. (Also with friends from home town after reunification.)
• He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Renovatio magazine until 1978 .
• In 1978 the Niels-Stensen-Gemeinschaft was founded, an association of doctors, pharmacists and members of all health professions.
• From 1980 the quarterly magazine healing was published.

On the occasion of his 65th birthday he became a Catholic. Association of academics with the Festschrift ... therefore honored for the people .

• After his retirement, Szydzik regularly celebrated services on Saturdays and Sundays as a subsidiar on Bonn's Kreuzberg. Worth mentioning are the Kreuzberg talks he had with scientists from all faculties.
• For members of the Niels Stensen community and friends from other associations, he led 53 study trips to Europe, Israel, the USA and Russia. 84 conferences take place in the Benedictine monasteries of Maria Laach and Beuron.
• In 1989 he moved from Bonn-Godesberg to Bad Münstereifel-Maulbach.

Szydzik died on November 25, 2001. His grave is in the cemetery in Bad Münstereifel-Houverath.

literature

• Felicitas Estermann: To love people so ... the life and work of the pastor Stanis-Edmund Szydzik. Siering Verlag, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-923154-30-5 .
• Siegfried Koß in Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 7th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 9). Akadpress, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-939413-12-7 , p. 154 f.
• alternatively in Academic Monthly Gazette 2000 issue 5 p. 21