Wilhelm Zoehrer

Wilhelm Zöhrer OSB (born Friedrich Josef Zöhrer ; born March 8, 1871 in Leibnitz , † March 21, 1936 in Graz ) was an Austrian Benedictine who was abbot of St. Lambrecht Abbey from 1922 until his resignation in 1931 . Since Wilhelm Blaindorfer was another abbot with the religious name Wilhelm in office a few years later , Zöhrer was also often written as Wilhelm I after Blaindorfer took office .

Life

Zöhrer was born on March 8, 1871 in Leibnitz and dressed as a novice in St. Lambrecht Monastery on October 10, 1894 . On July 7, 1897, the then 26-year-old made his solemn profession and was ordained a priest only eleven days later, on July 18, 1897. After working as a teacher at the private grammar school of the monastery from October 1898 to September 1900 as well as a monastery preacher, he went to the Veitsch as a chaplain and in 1902 to Lind near Scheifling . In 1905 he came back to the monastery, where he worked for the next 15 years as an economic administrator and court and forest master. The First World War and the post-war period sometimes fell during this period . For some time Zöhrer was also a member of the district and community council and was chairman of the St. Lambrecht agricultural branch. In the aforementioned wartime and the associated forced economy , he was also the grain commissioner for the community of St. Lambrecht . Like his predecessor as Abbot of St. Lambrecht, Severin Kalcher , Zöhrer was made an honorary citizen of St. Lambrecht in 1920.

In April 1920, Zöhrer, who also regularly published articles in specialist journals, was released from his duties in St. Lambrecht and transferred to Seewiesen as parish vicar . After two years, however, he returned from here and after the death of the previous abbot, Severin Kalcher, already mentioned, he took over the post of abbot of the monastery. As abbot, he was elected abbot of St. Lambrecht Monastery on July 5, 1922, under the chairmanship of Abbot President Amand Oppitz of the Schottenstift in Vienna , and on August 7, 1922 by Leopold Schuster , Prince-Bishop of Seckau (today: Diocese of Graz-Seckau ) designated. Another two years later, in 1924, Zöhrer was appointed prince-bishop consistorial councilor. Due to the desperate economic situation of the pen during the Great Depression and a wind throw disaster in the pen forests resigned Zöhrer on October 20, 1931. His only briefly succeeded by then Viktorin Weyer as temporary administrator of the abbey on.

Zöhrer died in 1936 in the hospital of the Brothers of Mercy in Graz.

Web links

• Wilhelm Zöhrer in the Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de)
• The Roman Noreia in a desert

Individual evidence

1. ↑ News from near and far. In:  Vorarlberger Tagblatt , October 22, 1931, p. 3 (online at ANNO ). The abbot of the St. Lambrecht Monastery, Wilhelm Zöhrer, has resigned from his position out of health considerations. The superior of Maria Zell Father Viktorin Weyer was appointed administrator of the monastery with all the rights of an abbot.
   
2. ^ Abbot Wilhelm Zöhrer died. In:  Salzburger Chronik , March 23, 1936, p. 6 (online at ANNO ). On the feast of the Holy Order's founder, Benediktus , the retired abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Lambrecht, Wilhelm Zöhrer, died at the age of 65 in the hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder in Graz. The deceased was elected abbot in 1922 and in 1931 applied to the Holy See for approval of resignation.
   

predecessor	Office	successor
Severin Kalcher	Abbot of St. Lambrecht Abbey 1922–1931	Viktorin Weyer (administrator)