Willibald Adam

Willibald Adam OSB , baptized name Leopold Adam (born September 24, 1873 in Pertolzhofen near Niedermurach ; † March 8, 1935 in Frauenchiemsee ) was a German clergyman and abbot of the Bavarian Benedictine monastery Metten and founder abbot and apostolic administrator of the rebuilt Benedictine monastery Niederaltaich .

Life

Leopold Adam attended the Benedictine grammar school in Metten and, after graduating from high school, entered the Benedictine monastery here in 1892, where he was given the religious name Willibald. After the novitiate , he first studied philosophy and theology in the monastery. In 1896 he was ordained a priest in Regensburg by Bishop Ignatius von Senestrey . From 1895 to 1899 he studied Classical Philology at the University of Würzburg . After passing the two sections of the state examination for teaching at the grammar school in 1898 and 1899 and completing his legal clerkship, he worked from 1900 as a teacher at the humanistic grammar school of the Metten monastery. From 1899 to 1903 he was also employed as prefect at the religious and monastery seminary. From 1903 he was director of the school's orchestra.

When the Abbot Leo Mergel from Metten was appointed Bishop of Eichstätt in 1905 , the monks of the monastery elected Willibald Adam as his successor on December 19. He received the abbot's benediction on January 28, 1906. Even after his election as abbot, Willibald Adam continued to teach until 1912 as a teacher at the grammar school in Metten. At the same time he lectured as a lecturer in dogmatics in the theological house study of the monastery. In 1920 the Metten monastery resettled the neighboring Niederaltaich monastery , which was secularized in 1803 , for which Willibald Adam was appointed apostolic administrator (until 1927). On July 11, 1929, Willibald Adam resigned the office of abbot and thus the management of the Metten monastery. He retired to the island of Frauenchiemsee , where he worked as a confessor and teacher of religion. He died here in 1935.

literature

• Michael Kaufmann: Mento mori. In memory of the deceased conventuals of the Benedictine abbey Metten since the re-establishment in 1830 (= development history of the Benedictine abbey Metten , part 5), Metten 2008, p. 288f.
• Wilhelm Fink : History of the development of the Benedictine abbey Metten. Part 1: The Book of Professions of the Abbey (studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches, supplement 1/1), Munich 1926, p. 93.

Web links

• Portrait of Abbot Willibald Adam on the homepage of Metten Monastery

predecessor	Office	successor
Leo Mergel	Abbot of Metten Monastery 1905–1929	Corbinian Hofmeister