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Aloisius Joseph Muench (February 18 1889 – February 15 1962) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Fargo from 1935 to 1959 and as Apostolic Nuncio to Germany from 1951 to 1959. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1959.Muench was the most powerful American Catholic and Vatican representative in Allied-occupied Germany and subsequently in West Germany from 1946 to 1959 as the liaison between the U.S.
