Viktorin Weyer

Abbot Viktorin Weyer, portrait in the abbot gallery in the prelate hall of the St. Lambrecht monastery

Viktorin Weyer OSB (born October 20, 1866 in Obdach ; † August 28, 1939 in Mariazell ) was an Austrian Benedictine who was abbot of St. Lambrecht Abbey from 1936 to 1939 , after he had been the administrator of the Abbey from 1931 to 1932 had directed. During his term of office, the National Socialists expropriated the monastery , which meant that the abbey was relocated to Mariazell ("St. Lambrecht Abbey with its seat in Mariazell").

Life

Viktorin Weyer was born on October 20, 1866 in the Obdach community in the Judenburg district; his baptismal name was Othmar Wenzel . After studying theology at the University of Graz , he received his doctorate there in 1908 . Weyer was ordained a priest as early as 1890 and subsequently worked as a teacher at the collegiate high school in St. Lambrecht or as a court master in Graz and in the monastery. Furthermore, he was novice master , prior , district dean , monastery archivist and librarian as well as parish vicar and estate administrator in Aflenz . In 1917 he became superior , pastor and dean in the basilica of Mariazell . Still active in these offices, after the resignation of Abbot Wilhelm Zöhrer in 1931 , Weyer was appointed administrator of the monastery and held this office until 1932. At the same time, however, he remained superior in Mariazell. In 1932 he was succeeded by Hermann Peichl as administrator of St. Lambrecht, before he was appointed abbot of St. Lambrecht himself in 1936. In this activity he was active until the abolition of the monastery by the government on May 7, 1938 in the course of the annexation of Austria . After the abolition, he moved with the convent to Mariazell, where he died a little over a year later, on August 28, 1939, at the age of 72.

Web links

• Viktorin Weyer in the Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de)

  predecessor	Office	successor
  Hermann Peichl (administrator)	Abbot of St. Lambrecht Abbey 1936–1939	Wilhelm Blaindorfer
  Wilhelm Zöhrer (Abbot)	Administrator of St. Lambrecht Abbey 1931–1932	Hermann Peichl