Wilhelm Weskamm
| Wilhelm Weskamm | |
|---|---|
| Roman Catholic Bishop of Berlin | |
| Diocese | Berlin |
| Appointed | 4 June 1951 |
| Term ended | August 21, 1956 |
| Predecessor | Konrad von Preysing |
| Successor | Julius Döpfner |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 3 April 1914 |
| Consecration | by Lorenz Jaeger |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Franz Johannes Wilhelm Weskamm |
| Born | May 13, 1891 |
| Died | August 21, 1956 (aged 65) Berlin, Germany |
| Buried | St. Hedwig's Cathedral, Berlin |
| Nationality | German |
Wilhelm Weskamm (13 May 1891 – 21 August 1956) was a German prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Berlin from 1951 until his death.
Franz Johannes Wilhelm Weskamm was born in near Arolsen, roughly 175 km (110 miles) north of Frankfurt. Helsen was booming as a railway town, and Weskamm's father worked as a railway official. Weskamm untook his secondary education at the at Brilon, passing his School final exams in 1909 and going on to study Theology at Paderborn. Still at Paderborn, he was ordained into the priesthood on 3 April 1914. He then became a chaplain at , a quarter of Warburg. Between 1916 and 1919 he served as secretary to the Prisoners' of War Support Agency in Paderborn. In 1919 he was appointed a Cathedral Vicar ("Domvikar") at Paderborn where for the next thirteen years he worked as a chaplain.
In 1932 he relocated to Merseburg near Halle he became the priest in charge at Church of St Norbert. Having grown up and been educated in the Catholic western part of Germany, for the rest of his life he would be based in Germany's Lutheran heartland, and living after 1933 in a post democratic and increasingly secular version of the German state. In 1941 he was transferred from Merseburg, becoming a regional dean for Halle. In 1943 he was appointed priest with the title of "provost" at in Magdeburg, and made the episcopal commissar for the Saxon (eastern) portion of the vast Archbishopric of Paderborn, at the same time appointed a non-resident canon of Paderborn, still based in Mageburg. In 1949 the pope appointed him to the titular episcopate of , while he simultaneously became an Auxiliary bishop in the Paderborn diocese. He was consecrated by Archbishop Jaeger of Paderborn. 1949 was also the year in which Germany's postwar military occupation zones were replaced with two separate German states, and it was becoming apparent that for practical purposes administration of the part of the Paderborn arch-diocese in the former Soviet occupation zone - from now East Germany - from beyond the east-west divide would become increasingly difficult.
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