Albert Willimsky

Albert Willimsky (born December 29, 1890 in Oberglogau , Upper Silesia , † February 22, 1940 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German Roman Catholic priest , pastor , resistance fighter against National Socialism , defender of the rights of Polish seasonal workers and martyrs .

Life

On June 22, 1919, Albert Willimsky was ordained a priest in the Breslau Cathedral . From 1927, Willimsky campaigned for the Catholic minority in his parish in Friesack in the Havelland , especially for the Polish seasonal workers who work here. In 1933 he came into conflict with local authorities for the first time when he distributed an election call by the Center Party in Paulinenaue . From Friesack he was transferred to Gransee in 1935 and from there to Podejuch near Stettin in 1939 . Because of his openly expressed Christian-humanistic attitude, Pastor Willimsky was defamed, arrested several times and transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Oranienburg in early 1940 . Here he died after a few weeks.

Commemoration

In Stettin -Podejuch the park was opened in June 2008 . Alberta Willimskyego named after him

Pfarrer-Albert-Willimsky-Weg and memorial plaque at the Rosary Chapel in Friesack , inaugurated on March 31, 2015

Memorial plaque in St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin-Mitte

Memorial plaque for Willimsky and Paul Bartsch at the rectory in Gransee

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

Memorial plaque for Albert Willimsky and Paul Bartsch in Gransee on Grünstraße
Memorial plaque of the martyrs of the Nazi era in the crypt of St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin-Mitte

literature

Heinz Kühn: martyrs of the diocese of Berlin. (Klausener, Lichtenberg, Lampert, Lorenz, Simoleit, Mandrella, Hirsch, Wachsmann, Metzger, Schäfer, Willimsky, Lenzel, Froehlich). More publishing house, Berlin 1950.
Bogdan Frankiewicz: Ksiądz Albert Willimsky - przykład chrześcijańskiej postawy wobec zbrodni nazizmu. In: Marian Grzęda (ed.): Antyfaszystowska działalność Kościoła katolickiego i ewangelickiego na Pomorzu Zachodnim: Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer i ksiądz Albert Willimsky. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego, Szczecin 2003, ISBN 83-7241-324-X .
Helmut Moll (Ed. On behalf of the German Bishops' Conference): Witnesses for Christ. The German martyrology of the 20th century. Paderborn u. a. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , pp. 145–149.

Web links

Commons : Albert Willimsky - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remembering Albert Willimsky on the Paulinenaue website in Havelland
Rev. Albert Willimsky (1890 - 1940) on the website of the deo iuvante Friesack eV association

Individual evidence

↑ on renaming the street ( memento from December 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Willimsky, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Catholic pastor and opponent of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	December 29, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Glogau
DATE OF DEATH	February 22, 1940
Place of death	Sachsenhausen concentration camp

[1] renaming the street ( memento from December 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )