Benedicta Maria Kempner

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Benedicta Maria Kempner (born July 8, 1904 in Geislingen an der Steige ; † May 4, 1982 in Stockholm ; born Ruth Lydia Hahn ) was a German sociologist and publicist .

Life

Kempner was born in Württemberg in 1904. She came from a family where the missionary profession was tradition. She originally worked as a social worker and sociologist. For this she was trained in Germany, Italy and at the University of Pennsylvania . During the time of the Weimar Republic she worked in the Berlin youth welfare service .

As early as 1933, she and her future husband, the lawyer Robert Kempner , were temporarily arrested by the Gestapo for political unreliability and finally expatriated . She emigrated to Italy , where she worked in an international boarding school in Florence . Later to the United States , where she and her husband arrived on September 1, 1939 - the day World War II broke out. Their marriage resulted in a son.

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Inspired by an audience with Pope Pius XII. In the summer of 1954, the majority of Benedicta Maria Kempner's literary work relates to priests and religious of the Roman Catholic Church who were persecuted and murdered during the Nazi era . Her two books on the subject have long been considered standard works .

For her coming to terms with the fate of the priests in the Third Reich , she was given by Pope Paul VI. honored with the Order of Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice .

Benedicta Maria Kempner died during a trip to Europe in Stockholm and was buried in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania .

Works

  • Priests before Hitler's tribunals. Rütten and Loening, Munich 1966, DNB 457181710 ; 2., through and additional edition. Rütten and Loening, Munich 1967, DNB 457181737 , pp. 273-289; unchangeable Reprinted by Bertelsmann, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-570-12292-1 .
  • Nuns under the swastika. Suffering, heroism, death. The first documentation about the fate of the nuns in the 3rd Reich. Arranged by Anna Altenhöfer-Mons. Naumann, Würzburg 1979, ISBN 3-921155-89-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the year of birth 1904 see Gertrud Luckner : Benedicta Maria Kempner - to commemorate (1904–1982). In: Freiburg circular . Contributions to the Christian-Jewish encounter. No. 129/132, 1982, p. 32 f., Urn : nbn: de: bsz: 25-opus-70648 ; the adjoining obituary notice of the family speaks of their passing "before they reached their 78th year of life". - Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German exile literature 1933–1945. A bio-bibliography (= publications of the German Academy for Language and Poetry Darmstadt . Issue 29). Preface by Hanns Wilhelm Eppelsheimer . 2nd Edition. L. Schneider, Heidelberg 1970, OCLC 495889556 , p. 261 ( limited preview in the Google book search). -
    Deviating from this, the year 1914 was mentioned in various sources : u. a. from Andreas Klimt (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar . Volume 2: R – Z, appendices. KG Saur, 2001, ISBN 3-598-23582-8 .
  2. ^ Kempner, Benedicta Maria. In: Landesbibliographie Baden-Württemberg . March 20, 2014, accessed June 25, 2020.
  3. ^ Publisher's text Rütten & Loening 1966 on priests before Hitler's tribunals. Quoted from: Franz Loidl : Deserved memory for Benedicta Maria Kempner (= Miscellanea, Neue Reihe. 132). Vienna Catholic Academy, Vienna 1983 (not paginated).
  4. ^ A b Brigitte Schellmann: KEMPNER, Robert Maximilian Wassili. (PDF; 42 kB) Entry in the register of Berlin cemeteries. (No longer available online.) In: berlin.de. October 30, 2003, archived from the original on December 31, 2004 ; Retrieved on October 27, 2016 (documentation on the honorary and family grave at the Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde , Berlin-Steglitz).
  5. ↑ The marriage - for him the second - was concluded in 1935. Kempner, Robert Maximilian Wasili. In: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933–1945. Volume 1: Politics, Economy, Public Life. Saur, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-598-10087-6 , p. 360, column 2 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  6. ^ Will Schaber : Benedicta Maria Kempner. Chronicler of Christian martyrs. In: Structure . March 1, 1968, p. 9, column 2 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Benedicta Maria Kempner: Priest before Hitler's tribunals. Rütten & Loening, Munich 1966; 1967; unchangeable Reprint of the 2nd edition, 1996, ISBN 3-570-12292-1 , cover page.
  8. ^ Gertrud Luckner : Benedicta Maria Kempner - in memory (1904–1982). In: Freiburg circular . Contributions to the Christian-Jewish encounter. No. 129/132, 1982, p. 32 f., Urn : nbn: de: bsz: 25-opus-70648
personal data
SURNAME Kempner, Benedicta Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hahn, Ruth Lydia (maiden name); Kempner, Ruth Lydia (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Geislingen an der Steige
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1982
Place of death Stockholm