Aloysius Kappes

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Aloysius Kappes (* 1885 in Mariental in the Volga region , Russian Empire ; † November 1, 1937 in the Solovetsky Islands , Soviet Union ) was a Volga German Roman Catholic clergyman and pastor .

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After graduating from the Saratov seminary in 1909, he was ordained a priest and appointed pastor to the church in Kamyshin . From 1910 to 1914 he was pastor in Marienberg (today Pestschanoje) and in Seelmann , from 1914 to 1922 in Marienfeld (today Novonikolayevka) and in Josefstal (today Skripalovo). In 1924 he was appointed administrator of the parish in Josefstal and in 1928 he was appointed high priest of the Deanery of Kamyshin.

During the famine of 1921/22 he made the foreign public aware of the difficult situation of the Germans in Russia and traveled to Germany and Argentina to organize help for the starving masses in the Volga region . In 1930 he was arrested together with 19 Roman Catholic clergy and on April 20, 1931, in a group trial against the Volga German clergy, he was first sentenced to death by shooting and then “pardoned” for 10 years in a prison camp. While in custody in the GULAG camp on the Solovetsky Islands in 1937, he was arrested again and, after a brief trial, shot on November 1, 1937.

literature

  • Schnurr, Joseph. The churches and the religious life of the Russian Germans. Catholic part. 2nd Edition. Stuttgart, 1980.
  • Anton Bosch: Aloysius Kappes - biography of a contemporary witness from the Volga. In: Almanach 2000/2001. HFDR, Nuremberg, 2001, ISBN 3980770125 .
  • Obholz, Albert. The clergy in Mariental on the Volga. On the 80th Anniversary of the Dissolution of Church Life in Russia // People on the Way, 2009, No. 6.
  • Aloysius Kappes, in: 'Critical Online Edition of the Nunciature Reports of Eugenio Pacellis (1917–1929)', biography No. 26078, URL: http://www.pacelli-edition.de/kurzbiografie.html?idno=26078 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kappes, Aloysius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kappes, Aloisius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Volga region, Russia
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1937
Place of death Solovetsky Islands