Karl Joseph Schulte

His Eminence Karl Joseph Schulte
Cardinal, Archbishop of Cologne
Church	Roman Catholic
Archdiocese	Cologne
Installed	25 March 1920
Term ended	11 March 1941
Predecessor	Felix von Hartmann
Successor	Josef Frings
Other post	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Previous post	Bishop of Paderborn (1909-1920)
Orders
Ordination	22 March 1895
Consecration	19 March 1910
Created cardinal	7 March 1921 by Benedict XV
Rank	Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born	(1871-09-14)14 September 1871 Velbert, Germany
Died	11 March 1941(1941-03-11) (aged 69) Cologne, Germany
Buried	Cologne Cathedral
Nationality	German
Parents	Oswald Schulte Antonetta Schlünder
Coat of arms

Styles of Karl Schulte
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Cologne

Karl Joseph Schulte (14 September 1871 – 11 March 1941), was a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Cologne from 1920 to his death and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1921.

Biography

Karl Joseph Schulte was born in Haus Valbert (part of Lennestadt), to Oswald and Antonetta (née Schlünder) Schulte. Confirmed on 24 July 1887, he studied at the seminary in Essen and the University of Tübingen (from where he obtained a doctorate in theology on 5 March 1903). Schulte was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Hubert Simar on 22 March 1895.

He then did pastoral work in Paderborn, including serving as a vicar in Witten, until 1901. He was a repetitor at the Collegio Leonino and Major Seminary of Paderborn from 1901 to 1905, whence he began teaching theology, canon law, and apologetics at the Theological Faculty of Paderborn. In 1908 he became an official episcopal counselor. He was the first editor of the journal Theologie und Glaube, published by the department of theology in Paderborn.

On 30 November 1909 Schulte was elected Bishop of Paderborn, a choice confirmed by Pope Pius X on 7 February 1910. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 19 March from Cardinal Anton Fischer, with Bishops Michael Korum and Hermann Dingelstadt serving as co-consecrators, in the Paderborn Cathedral. Schulte, who during World War I organized a large relief force for the British and French prisoners in German prison camps, was later named Archbishop of Cologne on 8 March 1920.

Pope Benedict XV created him cardinal-priest]] of Santi Quattro Coronati in the consistory of 7 March 1921. Schulte was one of the cardinal electors in the 1922 papal conclave, and again in the conclave of 1939. He was also a strong opponent of both communism and Nazism, though he publicly cheered the Germans' remilitarization of the Rhineland and praised Hitler at Cologne Cathedral for "sending back our army".

The Cardinal died in Cologne, at age 69. He is buried in the archiepiscopal crypt of the Cologne Cathedral.

External links

• Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
• Catholic-Hierarchy ^{[self-published]}
• Newspaper clippings about Karl Joseph Schulte in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW