Karl Canon Kruger
Canon
Karl Kruger, son of Jewish parents, arrived in Edinburgh in 1939
at the age of 15 as a refugee from Nazi Germany along with his
brother Hans. Soon afterwards he was picked up on his way to church,
wearing his school uniform of Edinburgh Academy and was deported
to a detention camp for aliens in Canada. There he became a Catholic
in 1940, and went on to be ordained on the 17th July 1949 at the
age of 25. He never forgot his Jewish roots and the Reformed Protestant
faith of his family back in Berlin. He went to Grangemouth on
1st Sept 1970 having been appointed by Cardinal Gordon Gray to
establish a new church of ‘Christ
the King’. Prior to his arrival in Grangemouth, he was
a lecturer at Diocesan Senior Seminar of St Andrews in Drygrange
to student priests. As well as undertaking his parish duties,
the then Father Kruger also took a great interest in the wider
community in Grangemouth. He was the chairman and founder member
of Grangemouth Enterprises, a member of Grangemouth Council of
Churches, Christian Aid, Chairman of the local Catholic
Marriage Advisory Committee as well as being the Dean of the Deanery
of St Mungos for the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh.
On the 26th November 1987 Father Kruger was transferred to St.
Patricks Parish in Kilsyth.
Cannon Karl Kruger died 24th May 1989.
After Mass with a congregation of nearly 1000 people in St Patrick’s,
containing many of his friends from Grangemouth, his remains were
interred at Kilsyth cemetery.
The image on the right of Canon Kruger, is of an original painting
by Charlie McGuire of Grangemouth. |
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Canon
Kruger's Prayer Card |
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This hand made scroll from the Parish was presented to Canon Kruger
on
his appointment to the Cathedral Chapter on being elevated to a Canon.
Newspaper Articles on Canon Kruger
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Canon Kruger and Fr George Paul |
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Article on the arrival of
Canon Kruger |
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Article on the funeral of
Canon Ktuger |
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