Alfons Jünemann

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Alfons Jünemann (born December 23, 1901 in Lingen (Ems) ; † September 19, 1965 in Meppen ) was a German Catholic priest , opponent of Hitler and member of the board of the Association of Persecuted Persons of the Nazi Regime (VVN).

Life

Jünemann studied Catholic theology and was ordained a priest in the late 1920s . From 1929 to 1931 he worked as a chaplain in Nordhorn , then as an adjunct in Haselünne, from 1933 as vicar in Melle , from 1936 to 1938 as rector of a catholic rest home in Niendorf and then as pastor in Parchim . In his position in Parchim he criticized the Nazi regime while exercising his pastoral care . In October 1943 he was sentenced to six months ' imprisonment for "insulting the Mecklenburg rural people" , which he served from May to November 1944 in the Bützow prison.

When the Nazi regime was eliminated, Jünemann joined the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). He passed on his experiences from the persecution in the work of the memory of those persecuted by the Nazi regime. In 1948 he was a member of the executive committee of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime.

After his release from prison at the end of 1944, Jünemann continued his work as a pastor in Parchim, but fled to the Federal Republic in 1955 because he feared another imprisonment, now by the GDR state.

literature

  • Elke Reuter, Detlef Hansel: The short life of the VVN from 1947 to 1953: The history of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in the Soviet Zone and GDR. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929161-97-4 , p. 572.
  • Mario Niemann : A Catholic in the Third Reich. The example of Pastor Alfons Jünemann from Parchim. In: Bull and Griffin. Sheets on the cultural and regional history in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Schwerin 1997, pp. 19–24, ISBN 3930659220 .
  • From Ansgar to today - Twelve centuries of church tradition in the Archdiocese of Hamburg. Exhibition catalog, Hamburg 2012.
  • Manual of the Diocese of Osnabrück. Osnabrück 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Resistance to the Nazi regime in the regions of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania (PDF; 7.9 MB) p. 47. Retrieved on July 18, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Young man, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, Catholic pastor and opponent of Hitler
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Lingen (Ems)
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1965
Place of death Meppen