Aloys Scholze

Aloys Scholze (born March 17, 1893 in Dresden , † September 1, 1942 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a Catholic priest and opponent of National Socialism .

Life

Original grave of Aloys Scholze in the priest's crypt at the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden

After studying in Wroclaw , he was ordained a priest in 1921. He then worked as a chaplain in Gera and Leipzig-Lindenau . In 1929 he became a pastor in Kunnersdorf on the property . From 1931 to 1941 he was in charge of the rectory in Leutersdorf . After the Nazis came to power, he helped the persecuted and opponents of the regime to flee across the nearby border to Czechoslovakia. In May 1941 he was arrested for this and for his sermons critical of the regime and taken to the Dachau concentration camp. There he died sick and exhausted 15 months later.

His ashes were buried in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden . The urns of Aloys Scholze and his two brothers, Alois Andritzki and Bernhard Wensch , who also perished in the Dachau concentration camp , were transferred in a procession from the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden to the Catholic Court Church on February 5, 2011 . Since Whit Monday 2011, the three urns have been kept permanently in a shrine in the cathedral.

Honors

• A memorial was set up for Pastor Scholze in Leutersdorf.

• The Catholic Church accepted Pastor Aloys Scholze as a martyr in the German martyrology of the 20th century .

literature

• Ulrich. v. Hehl et al: priests under Hitler's terror. A biographical and statistical survey. Vol. I, Paderborn 1996. p. 895.

• Helmut Moll (publisher on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference), witnesses for Christ. Das deutsche Martyrologium des 20. Jahrhundert , Paderborn et al. 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , Volume I, pp. 192–194.

Web links

• Biography and picture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Over 2,000 people attend the urn procession in Dresden. Diocese of Dresden-Meißen , February 5, 2011, accessed on May 26, 2014 .