Albert Maring

Albert Maring SJ (born April 6, 1883 in Koblenz ; † April 8, 1943 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a German Roman Catholic priest and Jesuit .

Life

Stumbling block for Father Albert Marning in the Roonstr. 5 in Koblenz

Albert Maring was born the son of a businessman in Koblenz.

On April 23, 1901, he entered the novitiate of the Jesuits in Feldkirch / Austria. From 1902 he went to Exaeten ( Netherlands ) in the juniorate. While studying philosophy in Valkenburg , his natural science talent was shown. In Copenhagen he obtained his master's degree under the direction of the physicist Martin Knudsen and his assistant Niels Bohr . The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn received his doctorate in 1928.

After his ordination , he held religious lectures for high school students in Oberdörnbachshof ( Schwarzbach ) in 1934 , which was reported by informers. In June 1935, the state police station for the Münster administrative district recorded that Maring , who lived in Münster, was a danger for the young people who were now being raised in the “spirit of paganism ”.

Together with Father Friedrich Muckermann , Maring developed the periodical : The Grail. Monthly magazine for poetry and life . The Jesuits have been grappling with the ideology of the National Socialists since 1930 . Reinhard Heydrich , head of the Reich Security Main Office , recognized Maring as the main opponent of the system. Muckermann was able to flee to the Netherlands in time. After thorough preparation, the Gestapo arrested Maring in Lübeck for "acts against the state and betrayal of the state". On February 8, 1941, he was transferred to the Münster police prison, where he met his brother , August Benninghaus , who had also been arrested . After a stopover in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , he was brought to the priestly block of the Dachau concentration camp on June 18, 1942 . "Since it is not to be expected that Maring will change his anti-state sentiments, he will be transferred to the concentration camp."

Albert Maring died on April 8, 1943 in the infirmary, weakened by poor nutrition and storage diseases.

memory

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

bibliography

• The Weltendom and its client: a look at d. Bauhütte d. Universe. Munster 1939.
• Feasts and memorial days of the church: contemplative readings on d. Holidays d. Church year. Cologne 1940.
• German people and Christian moral law. Cologne 1934.
• The God of the German believers and our God. Cologne 1934.
• Investigations into the spectrum of the iron arc at reduced pressure in the area 2270–3900 Angstroms. Leipzig 1928.

literature

• Christian Frieling: priest from the diocese of Münster in the concentration camp. 38 biographies. Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-402-05427-2 ; therein pp. 130-133: P. Albert Maring SJ .
• Joachim Kuropka (Ed.): Reports from Münster: 1924-1944. Secret and confidential reports from the police, Gestapo, NSDAP and their branches, state administration, jurisdiction and the Wehrmacht on the political and social situation in Münster. Munster 1992.
• Helmut Moll (Ed. On behalf of the German Bishops' Conference): Witnesses for Christ. The German martyrology of the 20th century. Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , pp. 960–963.
• Hermann Rieke-Benninghaus: P. August Benninghaus SJ - Martyr from Druchhorn. Dinklage, 2nd edition 2005, ISBN 3-938929-00-6 .
• Hermann Rieke-Benninghaus: Witnesses for Faith. Verlag Hermann Rieke-Benninghaus, Dinklage 2005, ISBN 3-938929-06-5 .
• Hans-Karl Seeger, Gabriele Latzel, Christa Bockholt (eds.): Otto Pies and Karl Leisner: Friendship in the hell of the Dachau concentration camp. Publishing house Dr. Pies, Sprockhövel 2007, ISBN 978-3-928441-66-7 .