Wilhelm Blaindorfer

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Abbot Wilhelm Blaindorfer, portrait in the abbot gallery in the prelate hall of the St. Lambrecht monastery

Wilhelm Blaindorfer OSB (born August 5, 1905 in Gradačac , Bosnia and Herzegovina occupied by Austria-Hungary ; † February 24, 1977 ) was an Austrian Benedictine who was abbot of St. Lambrecht's Abbey from 1939 until his death in 1977 . Since Wilhelm Zöhrer was already an abbot with the religious name Wilhelm in office a few years earlier , Blaindorfer was also often written as Wilhelm II .

biography

Blaindorfer was baptized Adrian . In 1926, the then 21-year-old made his profession ; He completed his theology studies at the University of Salzburg . Blaindorfer was ordained priest in 1930, after which he worked as a chaplain in Weißkirchen and Mariazell , and later as superior , dean and parish vicar in the basilica of Mariazell . After the abbey of St. Lambrecht was abolished by the government in the course of the annexation of Austria in 1938 and the previous abbot Viktorin Weyer , who had moved to Mariazell with the convent , died in 1939 at the age of 72, the then 34-year-old Blaindorfer became through in November 1939 Pope Pius XII appointed abbot of St. Lambrecht based in Mariazell and quietly in Graz Cathedral on 28 January 1940 benediziert .

However, the disease side, he had in 1964 - at that time only 58 years old - resign , after which Maximilian Aichern in May 1964 to Coadjutor regiminis was chosen. Blaindorfer spent his final years as a confessor in the pilgrimage church Frauenberg an der Enns in the village of Frauenberg near Admont (today part of the municipality of Ardning ), but officially remained as abbot of St. Lambrecht Abbey. After his death, Aichern, who had previously worked as coadjutor, took over the office.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Maier: Mariazell . In: Ulrich Faust, Waltraud Krassnig (ed.): The Benedictine monastery and nunnery in Austria and South Tyrol . tape III / 2 . EOS Verlag, St. Ottilien 2001, p. 395-448, 406 .

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personal data
SURNAME Blaindorfer, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weyer, Adrian (christened name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Benedictine and abbot
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Gradačac , Bosnia and Herzegovina occupied by Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1977