Ildefons Pauler

Ildefonso Pauler OT ( born November 9, 1903 in Hirschdorf ( Jelenice ), Austrian Silesia, † 9 January 1996 in Vienna) was 1970-1988, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. He is considered the founder and pioneer of the Church's life in the forest castle.

Life

Ildefonso Pauler, baptismal name Alois, entered 1927 in Opava in the Teutonic Order and was dedicated to the study of theology on July 26, 1931 in Innsbruck as a priest. During World War II it was used as a Wehrmacht pastor and was expelled after the war, like many other Silesian German religious priests. In Germany arrived, he tried to collect the scattered brethren, and founded in Darmstadt, the German brothers province to its first Prior, he was appointed in 1948. At the same time he served as pastor several diaspora communities and built churches in Industriehof Castle Forest and Ernst Hausen. In 1963 he moved as pastor of the German Order Coming Sachsenhausen in Frankfurt. In 1965, the provincial capital was transferred there.

Elected on October 6, 1970 to the General Chapter in Lana (South Tyrol ) Grand Master and benediziert in Rome in 1971, he stood before the Order for 18 years. During his tenure, the renewal of monastic rules fell under the guidelines of the Second Vatican Council and its adaptation to the new church law.

After retiring in 1988, he lived first in Vienna and later in the nursing home of the German nuns in Bad Alexandersbad. There he is buried.