Vincent Fuchs

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Vinzenz Fuchs (born January 23, 1888 in Frickenhausen , today Mellrichstadt , † June 19, 1968 in Starnberg ) was a German theologian and provost of the cathedral.

Fuchs attended the humanistic grammar school in Münnerstadt and studied philosophy and theology in Würzburg . He was ordained a priest in 1910. He then worked as a chaplain in Rimpar and Aschaffenburg , as a medical service in Germersheim and Aschaffenburg and as a catechist at the Institute of English Misses and Teachers in Aschaffenburg. From 1921 to 1926 he was spiritual in the Oberzell monastery , then at the seminary in Würzburg and from 1930 to 1932 at the Kilianeum boys' seminar in Würzburg.

From 1932 to 1939 he was a professor at the Philosophical-Theological University in Dillingen an der Donau . On November 11, 1933, together with all the lecturers, he signed the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state at German universities . In 1938 he was appointed to the Episcopal Spiritual Council of the Diocese of Augsburg , and in 1939 to the Cathedral Chapter. From 1945 to 1961 he was vicar general of the Diocese of Würzburg , and from 1954 he was provost of the cathedral. In 1949 he became papal house prelate , in 1960 apostolic protonotary .

From the first meeting in late 1947 to 1962 he was a member of the Bavarian Senate .

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