Alexander Frison

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Alexander Frison (born May 5, 1875 in Baden (Otscheretiwka, today part of Kuchurhan ) near Odessa , Russian Empire , † June 20, 1937 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) was a German-born bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine.

Life

Alexander Frison was born in the Black Sea German colony of Baden near Odessa in 1875 . After studying at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome , he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1902 and doctorate in theology in 1904. In 1905 he became professor of the Saratov seminary and was at the same time chaplain and private secretary to Bishop Josef Alois Kessler . Five years later he was appointed rector of the seminary. In 1926 in Moscow , without the consent of the authorities, Frison was appointed Titular Bishop of Limyra and Apostolic Administrator of Odessa and consecrated by Bishop Michel d'Herbigny .

Between 1929 and 1933, Frison was arrested several times by the secret police and later released. In October 1935 there was another arrest on charges of espionage in favor of Germany. In the subsequent trial in 1936, the Special College of the Crimean District Court sentenced him to death by shooting . The sentence was carried out in Moscow in Butyrka prison on June 20, 1937.

The Catholic Church has Bishop Dr. Dr. Alexander Frison was accepted into the German martyrology of the 20th century as a witness of faith .

See also

literature

  • Germans from Russia yesterday and today . (PDF) 7th edition. Federal Ministry of the Interior, Landsmannschaft der Germans from Russia, 2006, p. 15.
  • Anton Bosch: Dissolution of the German Catholic Church in the Soviet Union and its last Bishop Alexander Frison . In: Anton Bosch (Ed.): Russia-German Contemporary History , Volume 2/2002. ISBN 3-9807701-5-X , pp. 171-206.
  • Helmut Moll (publisher 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 , pp. 1123–1124.

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personal data
SURNAME Frison, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frison, Aleksander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION bishop
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden, near Odessa
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1937
Place of death Moscow