Hilarius Breitinger

Hilarius Breitinger ( born June 7, 1907 as Lorenz Breitinger in Glattbach near Aschaffenburg, † August 23 1994 in the monastery of Maria Eck, Bavaria ) was a German - Minoriten Father.

Biography

From 1922 was Hilarius Breitinger students in the Franciscan Seminary of St. Valentine, where he subsequently graduated. On March 18, 1932, he put in Würzburg religious vows, and on 31 July 1932 he received the priesthood ibid. As a Franciscan Friar Minor, he was sent in 1934 as a replacement for the stated from Poland Father Venantius Kempf as a German pastor to Poznan. In 1939 he was deported along with many other Germans. Given the anti-clerical policy in Warthegau and the flight Cardinal August Hlonds was used in Poznan as Apostolic Administrator. Breitinger acted as his representative, after his resignation from office gave him the Pope in 1942 this office.

In January 1945, Breitinger fled to the West, where it was used in the People's mission. He made an unsuccessful attempt in 1946 the company opened a subsidiary in Tauberbischofsheim. From 1947-1953 he was Guardian in Würzburg and held this position from 1953-1959 and in the monastery of Maria Eck. After that, he was the hospital chaplain and rector of Anthony Seminary in Vienna. From 1964-1972 he was Provincial of the Austrian Province. 1972 Breitinger Guardian and town priest in Graz and from 1978 until his death he was procurator of the pilgrimage pastoral care in Maria Eck.