Wilhelm Weskamm

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.

Life Franz Johannes Wilhelm Weskamm was born in Helsen 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. He then became a chaplain at Daseburg, a quarter of Warburg. Between 1916 and 1919 he served as secretary to the Prisoners' of War Support Agency in Paderborn. as advisor. His years as bishop were dominated by the need to establish training colleges for Catholic Theologians in East Germany, now increasingly isolated from the Catholic regions in western and southern Germany. Three major institutions set up during Weskamp's time were the pre-seminary at Schöneiche, the Norbertinum Seminary at Magdeburg and the Huysburg Pastoral Seminary. In 1954 Weskamm also launched the St. Hedwigsblatt Catholic journal in 1954. It lasted till 1990. Weskamm himself died in August 1956, however, a year after receiving an honorary doctorate from Halle University.

Weskamm's body was buried in the Old Cathedral Cemetery of St. Hedwig in Berlin's Liesenstraße. In 1968 his was one of the bodies relocated to the crypt of St. Hedwig's Cathedral, recently rebuilt following the war. There is also a street named after Bishop Weskamm in Berlin-Marienfelde.