Alois Beichert

Alois Beichert (born November 23, 1893 in Rittersbach ; † April 2, 1945 in Oberwittstadt ) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman and martyr .

Life

Alois Beichert grew up as the son of a mill owner in the Odenwald . He attended the Lender college in Sasbach and the Ludwig-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Rastatt , did military service in World War I and graduated from high school in 1919. He studied theology in Freiburg im Breisgau and at the seminary in St. Peter and was ordained a priest on June 18, 1922. The stations of his work were: Sinzheim , Ottenhöfen in the Black Forest , Herrenwies (Forbach) , Freudenberg (Baden) , Ettlingen , Luisenhöhe ( Horben ), Ichenheim, Neusatz (Bühl) , Lobenfeld (1932) and finally in 1938 Oberwittstadt (between Mosbach and Bad Mergentheim ), where he became pastor.

In Oberwittstadt he was the victim of a so-called end- stage crime on Easter Sunday 1945 . When the US Army approached, the white flag was hoisted on the church tower. SS officers and soldiers from the Fahnenjunkerschule Rosenheim occupied the place and mistreated Pastor Beichert so severely that he died on Easter Monday.

Commemoration

The German Roman Catholic Church accepted Alois Beichert as a martyr from the time of National Socialism in the German martyrology of the 20th century . A plaque commemorates him in the pilgrimage church of Maria Lindenberg .

literature

• Christoph Schmider: Pastor Alois Beichert . In: Witnesses for Christ. The German martyrology of the 20th century . Edited by Helmut Moll on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference. Vol. 1. Seventh, revised and updated edition. Schöningh, Paderborn 2019, pp. 243–246.
• Augustin Kast: The Baden martyr priests. Life pictures of Baden priests from the time of the Third Reich . 2nd Edition. Badenia, Karlsruhe 1949.

Web links

• The martyrs: Diocesan priests: Archdiocese of Freiburg i.Br .: Pastor Alois Beichert. In: erzbistum-koeln.de . 
• Franz Hundsnurscher : Beichert, Alois. In: LEO-BW .