Wilhelm Weskamm

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Weskamm's coat of arms as Bishop of Berlin (1951–1956)

Franz Johannes Wilhelm Weskamm (born May 13, 1891 in Helsen near Arolsen ; † August 21, 1956 in Berlin ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Berlin from 1951 to 1956 .

Life

Wilhelm Weskamm was born as the eldest son of a railway official. In 1909 he received his Abitur at the Petrinum Brilon grammar school, and on April 3, 1914, he was ordained a priest in Paderborn . First chaplain in Daseburg near Warburg , he became cathedral vicar in Paderborn in 1919 and worked there as chaplain for thirteen years. In 1932 Weskamm entered the diaspora , where he would live and work until his death. Until 1941 he was pastor at St. Norbert in Merseburg , in 1943 he was appointed provost at St. Sebastian in Magdeburg . In October 1949 he was appointed PopePius XII. as titular bishop of Rhandus and second auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Paderborn , based in Magdeburg. Archbishop Lorenz Jaeger from Paderborn donated him to his episcopal ordination on November 30, 1949 in Magdeburg .

On May 29, 1951 he was appointed Bishop of Berlin (inauguration: July 31, 1951), where he made the theologian Johannes Pinsk his advisor. During this time, Weskamm was very committed to founding training centers for Catholic theologians in the GDR (including the Schöneiche pre-seminar , Norbertinum Magdeburg, Huysburg pastoral seminar ). From 1954 he was also the editor of the Catholic weekly newspaper for the diocese of Berlin St. Hedwigsblatt .

Weskamm had been a member of the Albertia Munich Catholic Student Union in KV since his student days .

Commemorative plaque on the old cathedral cemetery of the Sankt-Hedwig parish in Liesenstrasse

Wilhelm Weskamm was buried in the old cathedral cemetery of St. Hedwig Berlin in Liesenstrasse and in 1968 he was reburied in the lower church of St. Hedwig's Cathedral . His name was also carved on the memorial plaque for the deceased of the Friends of the Brandenburger Priest Brandenburgia in the cemetery of the St. Hedwigsgemeinde in Berlin-Alt-Hohenschönhausen .

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Weskamm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christoph Kösters:  Weskamm, Franz Johannes Wilhelm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 25, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-332-7 , Sp. 1474-1481.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  2. ↑
    Commons : Two gravestones on the St. Hedwigsfriedhof  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
predecessor Office successor
Konrad Cardinal von Preysing Bishop of Berlin
1951 - 1956 		Julius Cardinal Döpfner
personal data
SURNAME Weskamm, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weskamm, Franz Johannes Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman, bishop
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsen at Arolsen
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1956
Place of death Berlin