Wilhelm Atanazy Kloske

Wilhelm Atanazy Kloske (born January 10, 1852 in Klein Nimsdorf , Silesia , † May 12, 1925 in Gnesen ) was a German-Polish auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Gnesen-Posen .

Life

Kloske came from a Polish-speaking family and, after graduating from high school in Leobschütz , studied theology at the University of Breslau from 1873 . There he became a member - also on the board - of the Catholic student association KStV Unitas-Breslau in the KV . Since the Wroclaw seminary was closed by the Prussian government due to the Kulturkampf , Kloske continued studying theology at the University of Prague and was ordained a priest in Prague in 1877 .

After various positions as chaplain , Kloske was a religion teacher in Berlin at the Luisenstädtische Oberrealschule as well as Polish chaplain from 1884 . In 1888 he was appointed to the Polish-speaking Mariengymnasium in Poznan as a religious and grammar school teacher .

In 1903 he became cathedral capitular , cathedral preacher of the Archdiocese of Gnesen-Posen and rain of the seminary.

In 1906 the Archbishop Florian Stablewski of Gnesen-Posen died. Kloske was a candidate for his successor, but was rejected by the Prussian government because it was feared that he would support the national Polish endeavors. On December 29, 1910, Pope Pius X appointed him auxiliary bishop, and he was consecrated as a bishop on February 19, 1911 by Edward Likowski , auxiliary bishop in Gniezno; Co-consecrators were Karl Augustin , auxiliary bishop in Breslau, and Jakob Klunder , auxiliary bishop in Culm (Chelmno). In addition to this office, Kloske was also vicar general of the Archdiocese of Gniezno-Posen from 1915 to 1920 .

After 1920, when Gniezno became Polish again, Kloske stayed there as auxiliary bishop and died a Pole in 1925.

literature

• Siegfried Koß in Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 7th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 9). Akadpress, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-939413-12-7 , pp. 74 f.
• Zdzislaw Grot: Kloske, Wilhelm Atanazy. In Erwin Gatz (ed.): The bishops of the German-speaking countries 1785/1803 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-428-05447-4 .

Web links

• Wilhelm Atanazy Kloske Bp . Wielkopolskiego Towarzystwa Genealogicznego "Gniazdo", accessed on October 23, 2016 (Polish)
• Entry on Wilhelm Atanazy Kloske on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on October 23, 2016.