ODCHOD NĚMECKÝCH BOHOSLOVCŮ Z ŘÍMSKÉHO NEPOMUCENA V ŘÍJNU 1938
THE LEAVE OF GERMAN THEOLOGIANS FROM ROMAN NEPOMUCENUM IN OCTOBER 1938

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the fate of theologians of German nationality from the Prague archdiocese and other Bohemian dioceses that, owing to the inducement of Pope Pius XI, had to leave the Papal college Nepomucenum on October 26, 1938, and move to the German-Hungarian College Germanico-Ungaricum. It focuses on finishing their studies, their return and involvement in the structures of their home dioceses. This concerned Jan Proschke from the Prague archdiocese, Josef Teuner, Josef Pauer and Hermann Grolik from diocese of Králové Hradec, and Alois Neumann, Josef Hille and Antonín Mareček from the diocese of Litoměřice who had their domicile right in the occupied territory. Most of them had to serve in the German army after or during their studies, some survived the suffering in the front line, some joined the great number of fallen and missing. Experienced administrators of beneficia who studied theology at the Gregorian University in Rome, had local knowledge and enough forces to following years of service, had to leave Czechoslovakia after war, despite the fact that they were mostly fluent in Czech. After being resettled, they found with no difficulties position in Germany and Austria that were lacking Catholic priests, killed either in concentration camps or at the eastern front. Based on example of several pre-war ex-alumni of Nepomucenum college, we can demonstrate the complexity of the Czech-German “co-living” in the first half of the 20th century as well as the deteriorating relation of the state and the church in the post-war Czechoslovakia.

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