Association of Catholic Nobles of Silesia

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The Association of Catholic Nobles in Silesia was founded as part of the “General Assembly of Catholics in Silesia” in 1890 in the Lower Silesian district town of Glatz under the name of Association of Catholic Nobles in Silesia .

history

The foundation followed a decision by the Silesian section of the Association of Catholic Nobles in Germany , which had existed since 1868 and which had met in Leobschütz in Upper Silesia in 1889 . At that time the general association committed itself to a threefold task of the nobility: “To protect the Church of God and to defend its rights, to show loyalty and obedience to the secular sovereign and to take part in the government of the country and the defense of its enemies and protection and refuge to grant widows and orphans and all those who are afflicted. "

In its religious orientation, the association joined forces with the newly founded Benedictine Abbey of Grüssau in Lower Silesia. The German Benedictines, expelled from the Emmaus monastery in Prague in 1919 , had settled in Grüssau and came to Bad Wimpfen in 1946, after their second expulsion (see confiscation of the monastery buildings 1940–1945 ). There Abbot Albert Schmitt founded the Grüssau Abbey , which moved into the empty Wimpfen monastery .

The amended statute from 1950 describes the tasks of the association "exclusively and directly" in the realization of "charitable, benevolent or church purposes", in the witness and preservation of the faith, in particular through religious lectures and conferences as well as through the support of those in need.

The then chairman Marco Graf von Ballestrem managed to lead the club through the most difficult period in its history and to consolidate it again after the loss of home; this also included the renaming from "Verein" to "Vereinigung".

In close cooperation with the Association of the Silesian Maltese Knights KöR, the "Association of Catholic Nobles of Silesia" is dedicated to its charitable and religious tasks.

Over a hundred years after its founding, the association published a volume in 1993 with an overview of its development, with pictures of the chairpersons, a short document attachment and elaborations on the State Catholic Movement in the Kulturkampf and on Catholic noblemen in Silesia in the episcopate.

Chairperson

literature

  • Association of Catholic Nobles in Silesia (Ed.): 100 years of Association of Catholic Nobles in Silesia 1890–1990 . Limburg / Lahn 1993.
  • Association of Catholic Nobles in Silesia (Ed.): 1890–2015. Association of Catholic Nobles of Silesia. Festschrift for the 125th anniversary . Ahlen 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-055944-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iris von Hoyningen-Huene: Nobility in the Weimar Republic. The legal and social situation of the Imperial German nobility 1918–1933 . CA Starke Verlag, Limburg 1992, ISBN 3-7980-0690-3 , p. 56.
  2. ↑ Dominikus Petry: Review of the book About drafts for the reorganization of the German nobility in the 19th century by Carl August Graf von Drechsel (Ganghofer, Ingolstadt 1912). In: Historisch -politische Blätter für das Catholic Deutschland , Vol. 150 (1912), pp. 943–946, here p. 945.