Bernhard Hürfeld

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Bernhard Hürfeld (born April 5, 1891 in Münster , † October 19, 1966 in Lüdinghausen ) was a Catholic priest , educator and teacher. He was the founder and long-time director of the Canisianum in Lüdinghausen. As a staunch opponent of the National Socialists , he was increasingly restricted in the exercise of his educational activities by government agencies after they came to power and finally arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned as a protective prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp .

Life

Bernhard Hürfeld was born the son of a master carpenter. After studying theology in Münster and Munich , he was ordained a priest on May 29, 1915 in Münster Cathedral . In the following years he worked as a tutor for the Arenberg princes . He received his doctorate in 1921 after studying at the Canisianum in Innsbruck. On February 10, 1921 he was appointed chaplain at the St. Sebastian Church in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen . There he got involved in the inflationary years by founding a child and youth welfare organization. After his transfer to the agricultural college in Lüdinghausen, Bernhard Hürfeld founded a boarding school for the foreign students of this school. In addition to the boarding school, Hürfeld opened the pedagogy in 1932, in which students were prepared for the Abitur examination.

When the National Socialists came to power, Bernhard Hürfeld came under increasing pressure and was dismissed from school in 1936, but nevertheless remained the head of his educational institution. In 1939 the state ordered that the boarding school be gradually closed, which then took place in the summer of 1942. On September 16, 1942, Hürfeld was arrested along with four other Lüdinghausen teachers - among them Anton Bornefeld - and deported to Dachau concentration camp in February 1943 . Bernhard Hürfeld was imprisoned as inmate 63.178 in the pastor's block . After the liberation of the camp, which Hürfeld reached on a hunger march south, he returned to Lüdinghausen. In poor health, he advocated the resumption of teaching at the Canisianum , which was finally the first secondary school in North Rhine-Westphalia to resume on November 21, 1945. Bernhard Hürfeld ran this grammar school until his death. In 1951 he founded a secondary school in Diestedde .

literature

  • Christian Frieling: Bernhard Hürfeld. In: Priests from the Münster diocese in the concentration camp. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-402-05427-2 , pp. 211-212.
  • 50 years of Gymnasium Canisianum - a look back. Rademann printing house, Lüdinghausen 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Frieling: Bernhard Hürfeld. In: Priests from the Münster diocese in the concentration camp. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1992, pp. 211–212, here p. 211.
  2. ^ Christian Frieling: Bernhard Hürfeld. In: Priests from the Münster diocese in the concentration camp. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1992, pp. 211–212, here p. 212.
personal data
SURNAME Hürfeld, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic Church priest
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1966
Place of death Ludinghausen