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His father, a policeman, belonged to an old family of farmers from Lower Bavaria of modest economic resources. His mother was the daughter of artisans from Rimsting on the shore of Lake Chiem, and before marrying she worked as a cook in a number of hotels. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Traunstein, a small village near the Austrian border, thirty kilometres from Salzburg.

His youthful years were not easy. His faith and the education received at home prepared him for the harsh experience of those years during which the Nazi regime pursued a hostile attitude towards the Catholic Church. During the last months of the war he was enrolled in an auxiliary anti-aircraft corps. From to he studied philosophy and theology in the Higher School of Philosophy and Theology of Freising and at the University of Munich.

He received his priestly ordination on 29 June A year later he began teaching at the Higher School of Freising. During this last year he held the Chair of dogmatics and history of dogma at the University of Regensburg, where he was also Vice-President of the University.

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On 28 May of the same year he received episcopal ordination. He was the first Diocesan priest for 80 years to take on the pastoral governance of the great Bavarian Archdiocese. In spite of different approaches, what was involved, and continued to be so, was following the truth and being at its service. On 15 February he resigned the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.

He was President of the Preparatory Commission for the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which after six years of work presented the new Catechism to the Holy Father. On 30 November he approved his election as Dean; together with this office he was entrusted with the Suburbicarian See of Ostia. His many publications are spread out over a number of years and constitute a point of reference for many people specially for those interested in entering deeper into the study of theology.