Theophil Herder-Dorneich

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Theophil Herder-Dorneich (born December 31, 1898 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † February 11, 1987 in Freiburg, ± Campo Santo Teutonico ) was a German publisher .

family

Theophil Herder-Dorneich was the son of the marriage of Philipp Dorneich , the managing partner of Verlag Herder , and Angiolina, nee. Vassarotti. He had five siblings, including his sister Vincenza Schaedel (1900-1982), who was buried on the Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome.

In 1925 he married the only daughter Hermann Herder , the grandson of the publisher's founder Bartholomä Herder , and his wife Charlotte, nee. Willmann. He added his wife's name to his own name. The children Hermann Herder (1926–2011), Birgit, Philipp Herder-Dorneich (* 1928), Elisabeth and Gabriele emerged from the marriage.

Life

He attended the humanistic grammar school in Freiburg and studied law at the University of Freiburg from 1916 to 1918 after the war . In 1921 he was with the work The duration of copyright in comparative legal representation in Freiburg to Dr. iur. PhD . He then completed his training as a bookseller at Verlag Herder in the branches in Vienna, Freiburg, Cologne, Munich, Rome, London, Paris and St. Louis (until 1927).

Theophil Herder-Dorneich joined the publisher's board of directors in 1928 and from 1937 headed the Herder-Verlag , one of the largest theology publishers in Germany, but also a large universal publisher in Freiburg im Breisgau.

During the Third Reich he had big problems with the National Socialists , who tried to reduce the largest Catholic publishing house to the production of prayer books . Despite these problems, he took over the publishing house Karl Alber and the Christophorus publishing house in 1939 and founded Editorial Herder in Barcelona in 1943. On November 27, 1944, the publishing house, known as the “Red House”, was destroyed by a bomb attack as part of Operation Tigerfish and then rebuilt. From 1939 to 1945 he was also a soldier in World War II, from 1944 major in the reserve.

In 1952 Theophil Herder-Dorneich was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested in Cologne Cathedral on December 8, 1952 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy ; most recently in the rank of grand officer . He was a co-founder of the Commandery St. Albertus Magnus Freiburg after the end of World War II and was significantly involved in the rebuilding of the German Lieutenancy of the Order in the 1950s. He was appointed Grand Cross Knight al merito . Since 1917 he was a member of the Catholic student union KDStV Hercynia Freiburg im Breisgau in the CV .

In 1948 he was President of the first German Catholic Congress in Mainz after the war. Theophil Herder-Dorneich was one of the co-founders of the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs (BKU) in 1949 . With Franz Greiss, Peter H. Werhahn , Werner Habig, Wilhelm Naegel , Werner Linnemann, Peter Zettelmeyer and August Küster he was a member of the first board.

The Lord's Prayer Chapel in Buchenbach , founded by him and his wife, is a testament to his devout worldview .

honors and awards

literature

  • Theophil Herder-Dorneich in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  • Who is who ?: Das Deutsche who's who Volume 19, 1976, p. 169.
  • Horst Ferdinand: Theophil Herder-Dorneich . In: Baden-Württembergische Biographien 1, 1994, pp. 135-136 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albrecht Weiland: The Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome and its grave monuments . Volume 1, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1988, ISBN 3451208822 , p. 225.
  2. ↑ Hans Jürgen Brandt: Jerusalem has friends. Munich and the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher, EOS 2010, page 78
  3. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Schmidt: Social justice through entrepreneurial initiative: the Bund Katholischer Unternehmer 1949–1990 , Schöningh 1994, page 30
  4. ↑ Awarded the title of Kommerzienrat  in the German Digital Library , accessed on January 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b c Review 1958: High awards , Badische Zeitung , published on December 30, 2008
  6. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Herder-Dorneich, Theophil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1987
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau