Anton Weber (Pallottine)

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Anton Weber (* 1910 ; † 1998 ) was a German religious priest of the Pallottines ( Latin S ocietas A postolatus C atholici).

Life

From 1941 to September 1944, Anton Weber headed the papal aid agency for "non-Aryan baptized Catholics" in Rome . The initiative for this aid organization came from Father Max Joseph Großes SAC (born August 5, 1887 in Hanover, † March 19, 1940).

Brazil action

The State Secretariat of Pius XII. obtained a special immigration quota for 3,000 Catholics under the Getúlio Vargas regime . The Raphaels-Werk Dienst am Menschen en route , Hamburg selected candidates for this visa . Obviously, visa applications sent to the Brazilian embassy in Berlin were only delayed. The Raphaels Association agreed with the Cardinal State Secretariat that 1,000 visas should be sent to people who were already outside the borders of the German Reich. The State Secretariat subsequently accepted visa applications from various countries and handed them over to the Brazilian Ambassador to the Holy See with the complete documents. In April 1940, the first visas were granted to refugees in Italy, of which barely 50 were able to leave the country before Italy entered the war. The involvement of the Brazilian embassy at the Holy See led the Saint Raphaels Association to expand its activities to Italy. After the General Procurator of the Pallottines, Franz-Xaver Hecht, had temporarily performed tasks in Rome, a branch was set up in July 1940 in the pilgrims' house of the Pallottine Congregation in Via Pettinari on the Tiber , which Father Anton Weber directed. A few weeks later, another branch was opened in Lisbon , headed by Woicjech Turowski SAC. In July 1941, the Brazilian government stopped admission. When trap axis was Weber Jews savior. At the end of October 1946 he was General Procurator of the Pallottines.

Weber told Gitta Sereny that Adolf Eichmann had come to Alois Hudal under the name Richard Klement and had declared that he came from East Germany and did not want to return there to live under the Bolsheviks.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liber mortuorum, Ksiega Zmarlych Polskich Pallotynów i Pallotynek ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pallotyni.pl
  2. ^ Ulrich Krieter, Karl-Andreas Krieter : Pastor of the Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg in the years 1934 to 1961, p. 91 FN 176
  3. ↑ Klaus Voigt, Refuge on Revocation: Exile in Italy, 1933–1945 - Volume 2 1993, p. 293
  4. ↑ Die Zeit , 1984, Passports from the Pope
  5. ↑ Irmtrud Wojak, Eichmanns Memoiren: 2001, p. 20
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
DATE OF DEATH 1998