Thaddäus Maria Roth

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Thaddäus Maria Roth OP (born June 26, 1898 in Cologne ; † October 12, 1952 there ; nickname "Thäddy", real name Wilhelm Roth ) was a German Dominican , Catholic priest and painter .

Life and work

Roth was born in 1898 as the third of seven children of the church and decoration painter Wilhelm Roth (1870–1948) and his wife Margarethe born. Kruth (1866–1932) born. Two of his brothers were the future martyr Joseph Roth and Vicar Ernst Moritz Roth . After attending primary school in Cologne, he graduated from secondary school at St. Josef Kolleg Vechta . Two of his teachers were the brothers Titus Maria and Timotheus Maria (civil Paul) Horten. After the death of his older brother Albert (1897–1914) he was supposed to take over the father's company, but thanks to his religious upbringing and friendship with the Cologne Dominican brothers who lived near his parents' house, his life goal was directed towards a monastery life as a priest . From 1916 to 1918 he had to take part in the First World War as a radio operator. After the war he resumed his education as a priest. In 1924 he was ordained a Dominican priest in Cologne Cathedral . Through his artistic upbringing, he began to successfully set up an art school for the students in the St. Thomas College in Vechta and taught the students at the St. Josef College as an art teacher. In the chronicle of the college from 1929 it says:

A drawing room and a department for locksmithing, carpentry, bookbinding and photography are attached to the art workshops of P. Thaddäus Roth.

In the Dominicans' annual report from 1933, Roth is named on page 32 as a sub-prefect of the college. From mid-1933 onwards, Roth repeatedly helped out the seaman priest Feltmann in Bremerhaven and Hamburg. In 1938 he was a clergyman in the diocese of Münster . In 1939 the St. Josef College was forcibly closed by the National Socialists and the building was used by the Wehrmacht for hospital purposes. All Dominicans and students had to leave the monastery and college on February 10, 1940. Only the top prima were allowed to stay until the Abitur. Roth worked as a chaplain in Essen from December 22, 1940 to April 30, 1941. Then he was appointed prior of the Dominican monastery of St. Paul in Berlin-Moabit .

Until 1945 he was prior at St. Paulus Monastery and during his time there he tried to help his older brother Joseph, who was arrested by the Gestapo in August 1944, through one of his "confessors", a secretary at the Reich Chancellery, without success.

After the college in Vechta was reopened under the new name "Kolleg St. Thomas" in 1947, Roth returned and worked again as an art teacher in the monastery. In December 1949, Roth showed an exhibition of Christmas cribs in his studio. On May 26, 1950, he expanded his art workshop with a large classroom. The cheerful Cologne native was very popular as a painter throughout the Oldenburger Land. He also designed several chapels with his works of art, such as B. in Scharnhorst. After a short illness, he died unexpectedly in 1952. To this day, he is unforgettable as an artist and as a father in Oldenburg. His painting style was a mixture of impressionism and naturalism.

Exhibitions

  • 1932 in the monastery of St. Joseph in Vechta
The painting exhibition that our artist, P. Thaddäus M. Roth, had opened in the gym on December 10, 1932, was also under the aspect of "The Oldenburg Homeland". The exhibited pictures were very well received by the large numbers of visitors from near and far. All kinds of representations represented in the exhibition - oil paintings, drawings, watercolors, pastels and graphics - clearly and convincingly highlighted the uniqueness and multifaceted beauty of the Oldenburg region. Above all, the exhibition told us that there is a real artist at work here with pen and brush, whom we can only congratulate on his blessed work.
  • 2002 in the museum of the armory in Vechta
  • 2010 at the Lohne industrial museum

literature

  • Historical archive of the Archdiocese of Cologne , estate of Karl-Gustav Roth.
  • Hans Schlömer: Horten, Franz (Father Titus Maria OP). Subtitle. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 325 f.
  • "The Catholic Clergy in the Oldenburger Land - A Handbook", fixed edition on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the Bishop of Munster Officialate Vechta, 2nd part biographies.
  • Michael Hirschfeld, Anna Maria Zumholz: Oldenburg's priests under Nazi terror 1932–1945. Everyday rulership in milieu and diaspora . Aschendorff-Verlag Münster 2006. ISBN 3-402-02492-6 , pp. 286-299.
  • Bernd Floer: "Collective resistance against National Socialism from a village-Catholic milieu in the Archdiocese of Cologne: A case study from 1935", GRIN Verlag, 2008.
  • Heimatverein Vechta eV, Artists See Our City , catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Museum in the Armory Vechta, 2002, ISBN 3-00-010425-9 , pp. 9, 14–15, 70–77

Web links

  • Lostbooks: Church Income and Pastorate Essen. Retrieved December 10, 2011 .
  • Diocese of Münster: Official district. Retrieved December 10, 2011 .
  • Seevetal community: Chronicle. (PDF; 595 kB) Retrieved October 13, 2012 .
  • Heimatverein Vechta: Gallery. Retrieved December 10, 2011 .
  • Genealogy forum: page 2. In: Geistliche Diözese Münster 1938. Retrieved on December 10, 2011 .
  • Jürgen Derschewsky's homepage: QR. In: Biographies of Oldenburg Artists. Retrieved November 24, 2015 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ College St. Thomas: History of the School. Retrieved December 10, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Stella Maris: Chronicle page 19. (PDF; 642 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 12, 2007 ; Retrieved December 10, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stella-maris.de
  3. ^ Roth family archive, letters from September to November 1944
  4. ↑ Bulletin of the Dominicans 1933
  5. ↑ Messages from the German Dominican Order Province , 1933
  6. ^ Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Museum in the Zeughaus Vechta, ISBN 3-00-010425-9
  7. ^ Accompanying volume to the exhibition of the same name in the Luzie Uptmoor gallery in the Lohne industrial museum, ISBN 978-3-402-12824-4
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Thaddäus Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roth, Wilhelm (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious (Dominican)
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1952
Place of death Cologne