Adolph Kolping was a German Catholic priest and the founder of the Kolping Association. He led the movement for providing and promoting social support for workers in industrialized cities while also working to promote the dignities of workers in accordance with the social magisterium of the faith. He was called Gesellenvater.
Adolph Kolping
Kolping's birthplace
Kolping as a priest
Tomb of Adolph Kolping in the Saint Maria Empfängnis church in Cologne
Unsere Besten is a television series shown on German public television (ZDF) in November 2003, similar to the BBC series 100 Greatest Britons and that program's spin-offs.
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