Bruno Platter

Johann Bruno Platter ( born March 21, 1944 in Unterinn Ritten, South Tyrol, Italy), since August 25, 2000 the abbot and the 65th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order.

Life

Bruno Platter came in 1963 under the Teutonic Order. On September 12, 1964, he made ​​his first profession and studied theology. After solemn profession on 15 September 1969, he received on 29 June 1970 the ordination to the priesthood. He was assigned to the priory South Tyrol and took over the management of the Deutschordenskonviktes in Bolzano as well as the management of the professional community of educators. In 1973 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the mixed marriage ban as a doctor of theology at the University of Innsbruck. He worked among other things as Provincial Bursar. From 1974 to 2000 Bruno Platter was also rector of the Church of St. George in Weggenstein, the German monastery church in the center of Bolzano.

Grand Master

The General Chapter of the Order chose Bruno Platter as successor to Arnold Wieland on 25 August 2000 in Lana to their Grand Master, the 65th Grand Master since 1198th He received by the Bishop of Bolzano-Bressanone, Wilhelm Egger, on 29 October 2000 Abtsbenediktion. On August 24, 2006 and on 24 August 2012 Platter was elected by the meeting in Vienna General Chapter of the Order again.

To the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Tannenberg on July 15, 2010, which ushered in the decline of religious rule in the East, a Grand Master was invited to the annual commemoration by President Bronisław Komorowski, the Polish Grunwald with Platter for the first time.

As Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, he is directly subordinate to the Pope. Current official residence of the Grand Master is the German religious house in Vienna.