Adam Rössner

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Adam Rössner (born December 23, 1867 in Hünfeld ; † November 9, 1942 there ) was a German farmer and miller who fell victim to National Socialism as a Catholic resistance fighter .

Life

Adam Rössner worked as a farmer and miller in Hünfeld. He was a Catholic and a staunch supporter of the Center Party . Already in the Weimar Republic he was politically interested and engaged. In 1923 he had after Hitler coup against Adolf Hitler warned and his followers.

After compulsory military service was reintroduced in 1935 , he commented: “Now there is war!”. At the beginning of the Second World War , he publicly stated that Germany would go under because of the many opponents. The Nazi monastery storm prompted him to write anonymous letters in which he sharply criticized the “church persecution and warmongering”. He also tried to use posters to call on his fellow citizens to resist the system, especially after the local monastery of the Oblates , who had done great service to their homeland, had been expropriated by the rulers and the fathers driven out. He had put one of the posters on a tree on the outskirts of Hünfeld. His daughter's name was accidentally written on the back and an auxiliary policeman reported him.

He was arrested on July 28, 1941 and sentenced to 18 months in prison on February 25, 1942 under the Treachery Act for "seriously damaging the welfare of the German Reich". He was initially imprisoned in Kassel-Wehlheiden , after being sentenced in Frankfurt-Preungesheim . At the end of October 1942 he was released from prison due to his state of health, badly affected by the conditions in which he was detained. After a few days at home, he died exhausted.

In memory of him, a seminar room in the Hünfeld monastery, which was reopened after the war, bears his name. In 2011 a street in Hünfeld was named after him.

In 1999 the Catholic Church accepted Adam Rössner into the German martyrology of the 20th century as a witness of faith .

literature

  • Rudolf Zibuschka: "Fulda is no longer a black city" - National Socialism and Catholicism in the Fulda area , Hessian Institute for Education and School Development, Wiesbaden, 1983, ISBN 3-88227-271-X (on page 110 and in the appendix on pages 201 / 202 there also the reprint of several original texts by Rössner)
  • Helmut Moll (Ed. On behalf of the German Bishops' Conference): Witnesses for Christ. Das deutsche Martyrologium des 20. Jahrhundert , Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , Volume I, pp. 316-318.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bernhard Opfermann : The Diocese of Fulda in the Third Reich , Parzeller Publishing House, Fulda, 1987, p. 133
  2. ^ A b Elmar Schick : Perpetrators and their victims - On the history of the dictatorship of the Third Reich between Rhön and Vogelsberg , Michael Imhof Verlag, Fulda, 2015, p. 70
  3. ↑ a b Joachim Haas: Away from the “great” story - opposition and resistance to National Socialism in the Fulda area , Jugend und Politik Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1989, pp. 90/91
  4. ↑ Witnesses of faith associated with Hünfeld from the German martyrology of the 20th century at thema.erzbistum-koeln.de (pdf; accessed on December 7, 2017)
  5. ↑ Appreciation for farmer Adam Rössner - street sign is unveiled on osthessen-news.de (accessed on December 7, 2017)
  6. ↑ The German Martyrology of the 20th Century ( Memento from December 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on fulda.de (accessed December 7, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Rössner, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Hünfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1942
Place of death Hünfeld