Editing Maximilian Kaller (section)

==Early life==
Kaller was born in [[Bytom|Beuthen (Bytom)]], [[Province of Silesia|Prussian Silesia]], into a merchant family, the second of eight children. With the population of Beuthen being of German and Polish ethnicity he grew up bilingual in German and [[Polish language|Polish]]. He graduated from the ''[[Gymnasium (Germany)|Gymnasium]]'' in 1899 with ''[[Abitur]]'' and started theological studies in [[Wrocław|Breslau]] (today's Wrocław) at the [[episcopal see]] of his then home [[Prince-Bishopric of Breslau]]. There he was consecrateda  priest in 1903.<ref name="Visitator Kaller">[http://www.visitator-ermland.de/txt/kalermax.htm "Bischof Maximilian Kaller"], ''Apostolischer Visitator Ermland'', the website of the Apostolic Visitator for the Ermland Diocesans in Germany.</ref>

He was the chaplain in the parish of [[Strzelce Opolskie|Groß Strehlitz]] (today's Strzelce Opolskie) in the Breslau diocese.<ref name="Visitator Kaller"/> Between 1905 and 1917, he practised as a missionary priest at St. Boniface parish in [[Bergen auf Rügen|Bergen]] on [[Rügen]] Island in the [[Hither Pomerania]]n Catholic [[diaspora]] within Breslau's [[Prince-Episcopal Delegation for Brandenburg and Pomerania]]. He raised the necessary donations to erect St. Boniface Church there in 1912.<ref>Cf. [http://www.katholischekirche-ruegen.de/kaller/index.php "Maximilian Kaller"], ''Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Bonifatius'', website of St. Boniface parish in Bergen on Rügen.</ref> From 1917, he was the priest at Berlin's second oldest Catholic Church, [[Saint Michael's church, Berlin|Saint Michael's Garrison Church]].<ref name="Visitator Kaller"/>