Otto Ogiermann

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Otto Ogiermann SJ (born February 14, 1912 in Paruschowitz , Rybnik district , Upper Silesia ; † October 28, 2005 in Berlin-Kladow ) was a German Roman Catholic religious priest , contemporary historian and author .

Life

Otto Ogiermann first attended primary school in Rybnik . After the family left the part that had become Polish because of the division of Upper Silesia, he grew up in Racibórz . Here he attended the secondary school , joined the Bund New Germany and graduated from high school in 1932 . In the same year he entered the novitiate of the Jesuit order in Mittelsteine in the County of Glatz . He studied philosophy at the Jesuit college in Pullach im Isartal until 1937 and then worked as an educator in Breslau.

In May 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a medical soldier and was deployed on the western and eastern fronts. Like most Jesuits, he was released from active military service in 1941. He studied theology in Breslau and then in Sankt Georgen . On November 9, 1942, he received the sacrament of ordination through the bishop of Mainz , Albert Stohr . After his ordination he was a chaplain in Heilig Kreuz in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and from 1943 to 1946 in the Trinity Parish in Berlin-Friedrichshain , where he also experienced the end of the war, which he described as particularly formative.

Gravestone on the Hedwigsfriedhof in Berlin-Reinickendorf

Ogiermann finished his theological studies in Pullach by 1950, then worked in Dresden and Erfurt and spent his tertiary studies in Carinthia. From 1952 he belonged to the Jesuit community in Leipzig for more than 40 years. In addition to working for the St. Benno Verlag , he worked as a preacher and lecturer in over 150 locations in the GDR . He was also a master of exercises and organized educational programs. His contemporary historical studies on the Catholic resistance against National Socialism found expression in publications about the Jesuits Alfred Delp and Bernhard Lichtenberg . His Lichtenberg biography Up to the last breath was for many years the standard work on the Berliner Dompropst , had four editions in the GDR and one each in the Federal Republic and in Italian translation.

Since 1994 he has lived in the Peter Faber College of his order in Berlin-Kladow. His grave is in the burial place of the Jesuits in the Hedwigsfriedhof in Berlin-Reinickendorf .

Publications (selection)

  • In God's power. Father Delp's blood testimony. Leipzig 1964 (reprint 1965).
  • In freedom and in chains. A legacy. Alfred Delp. (Ed.) Leipzig 1966.
  • Until the last breath. The trial against Bernhard Lichtenberg. Leipzig 1968. (4th edition 1983)
  • Right among us: Francis of Assisi. Leipzig 1976.
  • Carlo Carretto : Because you are my father. Confession of a life. (Ed.) Leipzig 1980.
  • No death can kill us. Alfred Delp - thinker and admonisher in dark times. (Ed.) Leipzig 1986. ISBN 978-3-7462-0026-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c P. Otto Ogiermann SJ. con-spiration.de, accessed on December 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Associated with Leipzig and St. Benno. Father Otto Ogiermann: In the Jesuit order for 65 years. Lord's Day , March 23, 1997, Retrieved December 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Erwin Bücken SJ: “Throw them out, we don't need them!” Commemoration of the “dismissal” of the Jesuit soldiers. Retrieved December 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ogiermann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic religious priest, contemporary historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Paruschowitz , Rybnik District , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2005
Place of death Berlin-Kladow