Adolph Kolping (born December 8, 1813 in Kerpen, near Cologne, † December 4, 1865 in Cologne) was a German Catholic priest and founder of the Kolping Society.
life
childhood and craft apprenticeship
Adolph Kolping was the fourth of five children of the wage shepherd Peter Kolping († April 12, 1845) and his wife Anna Maria, nee Zurheyden († April 4, 1833). He grew up in modest circumstances. At age 12 he learned at the request of parents in the first Kerpen shoemaking. His childhood Kolping described despite the family poverty than happy. After training and trade test Kolping worked from 1829 to 1832 as a shoemaker in Sindorf, Duren and Lechenich and then in one of the then leading workshops in Cologne. The offer to marry into this company, he refused and moved the body.
was way to study
Kolping often appalled by the inhuman living conditions and lifestyles of most artisans, whom he met during his travels. A potentially caused by these conditions disease forced him as a 22-year-olds to give up work temporarily as a craftsman. Nearly two years later - at the age of almost 24 years - was fulfilled his desire from childhood: He went to school to study it and to become a priest. Before Kolping entered the Marzellengymnasium in Cologne, he took lessons in Latin.
was after only three and a half years Kolping-levels and on 3 April 1841 he received the "certificate of maturity". He then studied in Munich and Bonn, and from 26 March 1844 at the Archbishop's Clericalseminar theology in Cologne. That he was able to study without economic hardship, was due mainly Mariale (Maria Helena) Melling (born April 16, 1809; † May 19, 1878), a daughter of the landowner, the sheep his father was careful. She had placed in the care of a loved one you vow to support a theology student. Support Kolping learned but also by other benefactors.
priest and fellow father
Kaplan Elberfeld
On 13 April 1845 he was in Cologne Minoritenkirche ordained first and then used in Elberfeld, now a part of Wuppertal, as a chaplain and religion teacher. He ran into the same social situation as it did in Cologne as a journeyman. With deep poverty, slavish labor exploitation and general impoverishment associated for many young men spiritual neglect and apathy to a milieu that was hardly hope for a meaningful life. In June 1847 he was elected as successor of the offset to Wermelskirchen Kaplan Steenartz second Präses in 1846 by Johann Gregor Breuer (1820-1897) founded the Catholic Association journeyman who its members, particularly in the years of traveling far from home, social support, education, sociability and gave a religious support. Kolping recognized the importance of the journeyman's association and has sought to carry out the idea of Elberfeld, which was possible only after his conviction by a larger city. He therefore asked Archbishop Johannes von Geissel for a job in Cologne.
founder of the Cologne club journeyman
1849 returned to Cologne cathedral vicar as Kolping and founded on 6 May with seven companions in the Cologne school of Columba Craftsmen Club, on 1 January 1850 the club had already 550 members. As in Cologne were made quickly and in other cities journeymen's associations, up to Kolping's death in 1865 there were 418 with 24,000 members. In the autumn of 1850 closed the Kolping Clubs Elberfeld, Cologne and Dusseldorf to Rheinische journeyman covenant "together, which was called in 1851" Catholic Journeymen's Association "to open on the Rhine borders are. This merger was the nucleus of today's International Kolping Society.
The society should give the wandering journeyman similar support, such as that offered by Kolping conviction that only the family, and he initiated journeyman hospices should be for the members of "a family home where they find a way her family, like-minded and equal friends and with them together in an intimate friendly way. "[1] The journeyman houses therefore were not only comfortable lodgings, but also school, which allowed the young artisans to form their religious, political and professional. They should also be given the opportunity for socialization.
were also in the club selected nurses who were obliged by the statute, a patient who reported them to visit in the course of 24 hours and to learn about the disease and their reason, if necessary, summon medical help and care for the sick. About this Nursing Kolping also presented himself as a pastor for cholera victims are available. An indemnity for the city of Cologne this time he refused, the money was used for the fellowship.
Gesellenhaus on Breite Straße in Cologne
The journeymen hospices Kolping was essential and tried since 1851, a house for Cologne Craftsmen Club purchase. In a brochure he asked specifically brought out in "beggar-references in favor of the hospice" for donations for the house. On 14 August 1852 he bought in the street widths of 14 200 dollars a property with a large house and garden, to set up meeting rooms and a hospice for traveling companions. [2] On 8 May 1853 could be moved into the house, which was not only a hostel but a kind of home school. [3]
Kolping a publicist
From the years worked in Elberfeld Kolping addition to his pastoral work as a writer and journalist. He wrote, among other things, the "Rhenish Church Journal," which appeared in Dusseldorf, was editor from 1850 and 1852-1853 editor of the Catholic People's Calendar, "and from 1854 to 1865 editor of the calendar of the Catholic people." From 1850 to 1854, he wrote for the Rheinische church newsletter, "before the weekly newspaper" Rheinische leaves people "founded the first issue on 1 April 1854 was released and quickly became one of the most successful Catholic press in their time. In addition, Kolping worked until his death as a freelance contributor to various newspapers and magazines.
Kolping saw an opportunity in public relations, the grievances of the 19 Century and particularly demonstrate the economic as well as emotional distress of many people to relieve them. Working as a journalist brought him also for his life's work, the journeyman club that needed economic security.
last years of life
met by youth Kolping serious diseases. Nevertheless, in 1858 he choose to General Präses all hitherto existing societies and 180 journeymen put every ounce of strength to spread the journeyman club further. To this end he made sometimes arduous journeys. In September 1861 he had to participate in the Catholic Congress in Munich and at the meeting of the Gesellenvereinspräsides cancel, after his health had deteriorated threatening. In May 1862 but it was granted Kolping to travel to Rome and the Pope to present his work. In recognition presented him with Pius IX. a precious chasuble, which is still preserved.
seemed to temporarily stabilize Kolping's health, but in spring 1865, he suffered from severe arthritis in the right forearm. Once again, he traveled to promote the Craftsmen Club: In September, he went to Trier, and took part in the inauguration of the journeyman house. But then became more frequent choking, where he spent four days prior to completion of the 52nd Birthday in Gesellenhaus on Breite Straße died.
since 1862 was rector of the Kolping Minoritenkirche (Cologne), in which he at his request, according to 30th was buried April 1866th He was initially buried in the Melaten.
brief chronicle
8th December 1813: born in Kerpen, near Cologne
1820-1826: elementary school
1826-1837: Teaching as a shoemaker and journeyman
1837-1841: student of the Marzellengymnasiums in Cologne
1841-1842: Studies at the University of Munich
1842 - 1844: Studies at the University of Bonn
1844-1845: seminary in Cologne
13th April 1845: ordained in this church that
1845-1849: chaplain and religion teacher in Elberfeld
July 1847: Second Church President Founded in 1846 in Elberfeld
fellow club first April 1849: Cologne cathedral vicar in
6th May 1849: founding of the first fellows association
January 1862: President of the 22nd Minoritenkirche
April 1862: Papal Secret Chamberlain
4th December 1865: 30th anniversary of the death
April 1866: transfer of the bones in the 27th Minoritenkirche
October 1991: Beatification in Rome
successor to Adolph Kolping, Office of the General Church President
1866-1901: Sebastian Georg Schaeffer
1901-1924: Franz Hubert Maria Schweitzer
1924-1944: Theodor Hürth
1945-1947: John Dahl
1948-1961: Bernhard Ridder
1961-1972: Heinrich Fischer
1972-2002: Henry Festing (also also the first German Central Church President)
2002-present : Axel Werner
beatification
On 21 Opened in March 1934 Karl Joseph Cardinal Schulte, Archbishop of Cologne, the formal process of beatification for Adolph Kolping. On 27
October 1991 Kolping beatified by Pope John Paul II. The Roman Catholic Church celebrates the feast on 4 Adolph Kolping December. Previously, Pope John Paul II visited on 15 November 1980 the Minoritenkirche of Cologne. Kolping he prayed at the grave and put the sentence: "Such visions as Adolph Kolping we need for the Church today." The canonization process is ongoing.
Kolping Museum
1963, 150 to Kolping Birthday, was set up in an outbuilding of his birthplace in Kerpen, a museum under the auspices of the Kolping Society, to life the timely originals or documents and exhibits, plant, and after-effects exhibited. The basis of the furniture came from the estate of his niece, Anna Catharina Kolping (1841 to 1914), the daughter of his Brother William, who had led Kolping budget and it inherits. It was after the death of her uncle moved back to Kerpen. The shoemaker's shop built there (table and tool) from the middle of the 19th Century will come from the possession of Adolph Kolping. The house was bought in 1913 by the General Council of the Catholic fellowship. The furniture was on the 1926 is Kerpener fellowship. Viewing is by appointment with the local Kolping House free of charge.
Dettelbach in 1967 opened a Kolping and Crafts Museum in Faltertor.
works
Kolping The writings in the Cologne edition (title list):
literature
Christian Feldmann: Adolph Kolping. A life of solidarity. Herder, Freiburg 2008, ISBN 3-451-32135-1
Hans-Joachim Kracht: Adolph Kolping, priest, teacher, journalist. In the service of Christian social reform. Life and work shown for the sources. Herder, Freiburg 1993, ISBN 3-451-21327-3
Franz Lüttgen: Johann Gregor Breuer and Adolph Kolping. Studies on the early history of the Catholic fellowship. Boniface-Verlag, Paderborn 1997, ISBN 3-87088-977-2
Paul Steinke: Vision for the Church: Adolph Kolping, Boniface GmbH, Paderborn 1992, ISBN 3-87088-683-8
Henry Festing: Adolph Kolping and his work , Verlag Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1981, ISBN 3-451-19476-7
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