Theresia Haselmayr

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Maria Theresia Haselmayr , OSF (born January 24, 1808 in Dillingen adDonau ; † January 8, 1878 there ) was a German nun . She was master (general superior) of the Dillingen Franciscan Sisters , founded several branches of the congregation and was a co-founder of today's Regens Wagner Foundation in Dillingen .

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Maria Clara, her baptismal name, was the daughter of the paver Franz Xaver Anton Haselmayr and his second wife Katharina Kaiser. At the age of 19 she asked for admission to the almost extinct monastery of the Dillinger Franciscan nuns, which was entitled to accept candidates again through a restoration certificate from King Ludwig I of Bavaria. Before joining the convent, the candidate passed the teaching examination as elementary teacher at the weekday school . Then she was accepted into the monastery community. The final admission took place on June 22, 1829. The sister took the name Maria Theresia and taught classes at the weekday and holiday school in Dillingen. Soon she was called to the chapter by Master Sr. Maria Angelina Häusler, contrary to all custom, and given the right to vote.

When Sr. Maria Angelina Häusler died on November 13, 1835, the 28-year-old Sr. Maria Theresia was elected as the new master. Since she did not meet the canonical requirements, the vicar general granted her the necessary dispensation, which subsequently had to be reconfirmed every three years. Five years after her election, on January 24th, 1831, Sr. Maria Theresia Haselmayr made her perpetual vows. She was then elected matron 13 more times. Under her leadership, the order blossomed again after the hard times of secularization and was finally expanded into a school order. In November 1837, a toddler school was built in the monastery’s apothecary room. It was mainly sisters who had bad teachers' exams who worked there. The future teachers were prepared for the teaching examination in a separate preparation school.

From 1843 branches were established, for example in neighboring Höchstädt, in Maria Medingen , Lauingen, Burgau and Gundelfingen, in Ogelsbeuern in Württemberg (in 1860 move to the former Dominican convent in Sießen), in Au am Inn, in Lohr am Main, in Volkach , Zell, Oettingen and Neustadt. Under her aegis , the Franciscan Sisters of Sießen , the Franciscans of Bonlanden and finally the Franciscans of Au am Inn emerged as independent congregations .

Together with the Regens Johann Evangelist Wagner , the spiritual director of the Dillingen Franciscan Sisters, Sr. Maria Theresia Haselmayr founded an institution in Dillingen in 1847 for the instruction and upbringing of deaf and dumb girls. This social institution continued to grow until it was finally able to offer care to 90 deaf and mute people. Other such institutions in the Kingdom of Bavaria followed in Glött in 1869, in Zell in 1872 and in Hohenwart in 1878. In doing so, they laid the foundation stone for the Regens-Wagner Foundation , a work for people with hearing, speech and learning disabilities as well as intellectual disabilities, which is one of the largest and leading charitable organizations of this type in southern Germany today.

During her 42-year term in office, Sr. Maria Theresia Haselmayr accepted 324 sisters into the monastery. In Dillingen an der Donau, a street was named after her, and a special education center bears her name.

literature

  • Helmut Witetschek: Studies on ecclesiastical renewal in the diocese of Augsburg in the half of the 19th century . Augsburg n.d., pp. 268-274.
  • M. Lioba Schreyer: Commemorative speech on the 100th anniversary of the death of Master M. Theresia Haselmayr . In: Dillinger Franziskanerinnen (ed.): Dillinger Franziskanerinnen 1241–1991 . Dillingen 1991, pp. 42-65.
  • Anna Praßler: M. Theresia Haselmayr. She is still a role model today . In: Dagmar von Garnier (ed.): Book of 1000 women . Göttert, Frankfurt am Main 2000, pp. 143f.
  • Manfred Berger :  Theresia Haselmayr. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 715-719.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Netzer, Verena: Theresia Haselmayr and Regens Wagner - Your life and work for disabled people , Munich 2004 (unpublished master's thesis)
  • Berthold Veh: Done more than a man could have done. Great female figure. Superior General M. Maria Theresia Haselmayr was born 200 years ago in Dillingen . In: Donauzeitung , No. 20 of January 24, 2008, p. 33.

Movies

  • Monastery pioneers: the self-confident servant . Film by Juri Köster, shown on Bavarian television on March 21, 2007.

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personal data
SURNAME Haselmayr, Theresia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haselmayr, Maria Theresia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious sister
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Dillingen on the Danube
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1878
Place of death Dillingen on the Danube