Suso Brecht

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Heinrich Suso Brechte OSB (born August 17, 1910 in Dorndorf as Johann Brecht ; † February 12, 1975 in St. Ottilien ) was a German Benedictine monk , professor of missiology and archabbot of Sankt Ottilien .

education

Brecht was born on August 17, 1910 in Dorndorf near Ulm as the son of the senior teacher Franz Brecht and his wife Theresia, née. Stetter. After attending elementary school in Dorndorf and Bronnen and the Latin school in Laupheim , he moved to the 4th grade of the Progymnasium in St. Ottilien in 1924. He attended the upper classes at the state high school in Dillingen an der Donau .

In 1930 he entered the Archabbey of St. Ottilien as a novice and made his first profession a year later, on May 16, 1931. From 1930 to 1933 he studied philosophy at the Philosophical University of St. Ottilien, then from 1933 to 1937 theology and from 1937 to 1941 medieval philology , universal history, palaeography and diplomatics at the LMU Munich . He was ordained priest in 1936.

With a thesis on “The sources for the Anglo-Saxon mission of Gregory the Great”, Brecht earned his doctorate in philosophy under Paul Lehmann in 1941 . He then took on a position as chaplain of the Benedictine nuns in St. Alban.

Professor and Archabbot

In 1945 Brecht became prior in St. Ottilien, where he also worked as a lecturer at the order's own university. In 1952 he was appointed professor of missiology at the LMU Munich and became chairman of the mission science seminar there. At the same time he held the office of clerical prefect in Munich's Ottilienkolleg.

After the resignation of the Ottilian Archabbot Chrysostomus Schmid , Brecht was elected his successor on July 12, 1957. During his term of office the upheavals of the Second Vatican Council fell. These brought about essential changes for the monasteries, which found their most visible expression in the redesign of the monastery church. For this purpose, Brecht presented his own concept to his convent at Christmas 1964. In 1967 the extensive redesign of the church interior began.

Although Brecht had attended the council himself, he was concerned about some of the changes that went with it. The upheavals "depressed him deeply to the end", as church historian Georg Schwaiger put it on the occasion of a memorial service at Munich University, as he believed that "essential positions of traditional faith, ecclesiastical and especially monastic life were endangered".

Due to a progressive illness, Brecht resigned from the office of Archabbot on December 6, 1974. A little later, in February 1975, he died.

Council father

As early as 1959, Brecht was a member of the preparatory mission commission of the Second Vatican Council . From 1962 to 1965 he then took part in the deliberations as a council father. Later he also worked up the results of the council scientifically. He was editor and author of the basic work "Lexicon for Theology and Church: The Second Vatican Council". He wrote a comment on the decree “Ad Gentes” on the missionary work of the Church.

Publications

  • The sources for the Anglo-Saxon mission of Gregory the Great. A historiographical study , (Diss.) Münster 1941.
  • Benedictus, the Father of the West 547–1947 , consecration of the Archabbey of St. Ottilien for the fourteen hundredth year of death, Munich 1947.
  • Church history sources and studies , St. Ottilien 1950.
  • The Second Vatican Council: Documents and Commentaries , ed. v. Heinrich Suso Brecht a. a., 3 vol., Freiburg 1966–1968.
  • The "rambling" porter? - Regula Benedicti (66.3) , in: StMB 86 (1975), 645-661.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.benediktinerlexikon.de/wiki/Brechter,_Suso
  2. ↑ http://www.orden-online.de/wissen/b/brechter-suso/
  3. ↑ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbrechter.html
  4. ↑ http://www.kaththeol.uni-muenchen.de/ueber_die_fak/gesch_fakultaet/profs_1826_2013/brechter/index.html
  5. ^ Georg Schwaiger: Commemorative speech at the funeral service of the Department of Catholic Theology of the University of Munich, on February 25, 1975.
  6. ↑ http://d-nb.info/gnd/107570181
predecessor Office successor
Chrysostom Schmid Archabbot of St. Ottilien and the Ottilian Congregation
1957–1974 		Viktor Dammertz
personal data
SURNAME Brecht, Suso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brecht, Heinrich Suso; Brecht, Johann (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Benedictine monk, missiologist, Archabbot of Sankt Ottilien
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorndorf
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1975
Place of death St. Ottilien