Hugo Aufderbeck
| Hugo Aufderbeck | |
|---|---|
| Born |
23 March 1909 Hellefeld (Sauerland) , Westphalia, Germany |
| Died | 17 January 1981 Erfurt, Thuringia, East Germany |
| Occupation | Theologian and priest Auxiliary bishop |
Hugo Aufderbeck (23 March 1909 – 17 January 1981) was a Roman Catholic theologian. He served as Bishop and Apostolic Administrator in the of Erfurt-Meiningen.
Aufderbeck was born in , a small village in the heart of the Sauerland countryside, and located some 70 km (45 miles) to the southeast of Dortmund. He attended the local school and then studied Latin for a year with his vicar, Dr. Josef Brill. His early years were spent in a Roman Catholic environment, but he then switched to secondary school, the humanist in nearby Arnsberg. He cponcluded his secondary schooling in Paderborn, where he was able to board at the archbishop's boys' seminary ("Seminarium Liborianum"). It was in Paderborn, as a pupil at the city's , that on 8 March 1930 he successfully passed his school final exams.
Remaining in Paderborn he now entered the episcopate's Pope Leo Episcopal Academy and studied Theology. This period also included two sabbatical semesters, in 1932/33, in Vienna and Munich. Then, from 1934 till 1936, he attended the Paderborn Catholic Priest Seminary. On 28 March 1936, in the Cathedral, Archbishop Caspar Klein ordained Hugo Aufderbeck into the priesthood.
Following his ordination Aufderbeck became a religious teacher in Gelsenkirchen at the Lyceum. In 1937 he began to study at the University of Münster for a higher level teaching qualification. This was cut short in 1938 when the course was closed under pressure from the government. Aufderbeck now relocated to the eastern part of the large Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paderborn: he became vicar of the provost's parish of in Halle, also becoming a student chaplain for the city.
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