Bruno Binnebesel

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Bruno Binnebesel (born September 26, 1902 in Tuchel , West Prussia , † November 13, 1944 in the Brandenburg prison ) was a Catholic priest . Binnebesel was sentenced to death by the People's Court in 1944 and hanged .

Life

Binnebesel was born in 1902 in Tuchel near Bromberg in West Prussia. He studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg im Breisgau and at the Universitas Vratislaviensis (University of Breslau) in Breslau . In Freiburg im Breisgau he became a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Hohenstaufen Freiburg im Breisgau and in Breslau with the KDStV Winfridia (Breslau) Münster , both in the CV . In 1924 Binnebesel was secretary of the executive suburb, who was based in Breslau in 1923/1924.

In 1928 he was ordained a priest in Breslau. In 1933 he was at the University of Breslau with the work The position of the theologians of the Dominican order on the question of the Immaculate Conception of Mary up to the Council of Basel to Dr. theol. PhD . Binnebesel was particularly involved in youth work . He worked as vicar in the Birgittenkirche in Danzig , from 1938 he was curate and pastor of the St. Antoniuskirche in Danzig-Brösen . Binnebesel was an opponent of National Socialism and did not hold back with his criticism even in public. Attempts were made again and again to arrest Binnebesel, but this did not succeed. In 1943 he was denounced and finally arrested on November 3, 1943, along with two other parishioners with whom he listened to banned radio broadcasts. In the summer of 1944 he was taken to the Brandenburg-Görden prison in Brandenburg an der Havel as the “instigator and seducer of others” . The People's Court of Berlin, chaired by Roland Freisler , sentenced Binnebesel to death on September 9, 1944 - seven weeks after the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler . The judges justified the judgment with the fact that he had " listened to foreign broadcasters and distributed what he had heard in church-bound circles".

The sentence was carried out on November 13, 1944. Binnebesel's body was cremated. The urn remained in the urn hall in Brandenburg an der Havel and was buried on October 16, 1947 in the cemetery of the cathedral parish of St. Hedwig in Berlin .

His cousin, the railway worker Alfons Binnebesel (* 1902) was shot on Good Friday , March 22, 1940 in the Stutthof concentration camp . Three days after the battle for the Polish post office in Danzig (1939), the senior postal assistant Bernard Binnebesel died of the consequences of the wounds he received while defending the building.

Commemoration

The Catholic Church has Pastor Dr. Bruno Binnebesel included in the German martyrology of the 20th century as a witness of faith .

literature

  • Helmut Moll (publisher on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference), witnesses for Christ. Das deutsche Martyrologium des 20. Jahrhundert , Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , Volume I, pp. 760–762.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PARAFIA ŚW. STANISŁAWA BM: WIELKI PIĄTEK - 22nd MARCA SIEDEMDZIESIĄT LAT TEMU W STUTTHOFIE. In: SKAŁKA. March 2010. p. 4f. (pdf, Polish, accessed December 5, 2017)
  2. ^ Obrona Poczty Polskiej w Gdańsku. (Polish, accessed December 5, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Binnebesel, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuchel , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1944
Place of death Brandenburg on the Havel