Wunibald Maria Brachthaus

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Wunibald Maria Brachthäuser (born March 16, 1910 in Küntrop / Sauerland as Josef Aloys Brachthäuser; † February 16, 1999 in Cologne ) was the son of a teacher, a Catholic clergyman and was appointed provincial of the Dominican Order (province of Teutonia), cathedral preacher in Cologne and as long-time confessor of Joseph Cardinal Höffner known.

biography

At the age of 13, Josef Aloys Brachthäuser was accepted into the Dominican College in Vechta in 1923 , where he graduated from high school in 1929. In the same year he entered the order of the Dominicans of the province of Teutonia in Venlo / Netherlands, which was followed by studying philosophy and theology in Walberberg and Düsseldorf . He was given the religious name Wunibald Maria . On August 1, 1935, Brachthäuser in the High Cathedral in Cologne was ordained a priest by Cardinal Karl Joseph Schulte , while some friars, including the Provincial , Father Laurentius Siemer , as well as Father Titus Maria Horten and the former Provincial, Father Thomas Stuhlweissenburg , were in Found in Gestapo detention. From 1937 to 1939 he completed a Postgraduate Studies at the University of Friborg / Switzerland, which he awarded the degree of Dr. theol. completed. In Friborg he joined the Germania-Helvetia Catholic Student Union in the Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Associations (KV). In 1941 he was called up as a medical soldier and remained in service until the end of the war. A request from the Archbishop of Cologne, Joseph Frings , for exemption from the Wehrmacht , since Brachthäuser was intended to be the cathedral preacher at the High Cathedral in Cologne, was personally rejected by the chief of the OKW , Wilhelm Keitel . Nevertheless, in 1942 - although he was already serving as a medical soldier on the Eastern Front - he was appointed cathedral preacher there. In 1948 he gained international renown as cathedral preacher at the 700th anniversary celebration of Cologne Cathedral. The years 1950 to 1958 saw him in two terms as Provincial of the Dominican Province of Teutonia. Since 1958 he was preacher general of the Dominican Order ("Praedicator Generalis"). From 1961 to 1969 Brachthäuser acted as prior of the Dominican monastery of St. Andreas in Cologne , in 1967 and 1968 he was a member of an international commission of the Dominican Order in Rome. From 1983 until his death he was Vice-Postulator in the beatification process for Father Titus M. Horten OP .

Act

After his election as Provincial, Brachthäuser was given the task of continuing the reconstruction of the Dominican community in the province of Teutonia, which had been badly affected during the Nazi era . Above all, this included the expansion of the Philosophical-Theological College of the German Dominicans in Walberberg . A new building was erected there between 1953 and 1956, which in particular served the tasks of the Walberberg Institute in adult education and social training. In addition, in 1958 the Dominicans took on another mission in Brazil in addition to their mission on Formosa .

Awards

Fonts (in selection)

  • Common good and law justice. A historical-systematic study of the doctrine of justice of St. Thomas von Aquin , Cologne: Albertus-Magnus-Verlag, 1941
  • together with: Rochus Spiecker , Marcell Birner (ed.): Register for the Council documents. Lucerne - Munich: Rex-Verlag, 1966
  • Bigger than the city you live in. Cologne 1980.

literature

  • The Fire Rider, September 1948
  • Rainer Maria Groothuis: In the service of a supranational power - The German Dominicans under the Nazi dictatorship . Verlag Regensberg Münster 2002, ISBN 3-7923-0754-5 .
  • Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Vol. 2, Cologne 1966 (26th edition)
  • An eloquent preacher is no longer alive. On the death of Father Dr. Wunibald M. Brachthäuser OP, in: To Bigge, Lenne and Fretter. Journal of the Working Group for History and Homeland Care in the Finnentrop Community, No. 9, June 1999, p. 70.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Maria Groothuis: In the service of a supranational power - The German Dominicans under the Nazi dictatorship . Verlag Regensberg Münster 2002, pp. 471-481
  2. ↑ Lexicon for Theology and Church ², Freiburg 1959, ISBN 3-451-20756-7 , Vol. 3, Sp. 487f.
personal data
SURNAME Brachthaus, Wunibald Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and Dominican
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Küntrop
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1999
Place of death Cologne