Dionysius Franz Heger
Dionysius Franz Heger (born May 17, 1887 in Chiesch , Bohemia ; † August 15, 1945 in Louka u Litvínova , Czechoslovakia ) was a Bohemian Roman Catholic clergyman, Cistercian and a victim of internment and forced labor.
Life
Heger entered the Osegg monastery in 1908 and took the religious name Dionysius (after Dionysius of Alexandria ). He made his profession in 1912 and was ordained a priest in 1913 by the Bishop of Leitmeritz . He was then chaplain in Maria Ratschitz , from 1915 in Janegg and from 1918 to 1926 at the monastery church in Ossegg. From 1927 he was parish administrator (pastor), later dean, in Janegg and from 1932 simultaneously administrator (also: economist, treasurer or provisional) of the monastery. The struggle against the priests in the National Socialist German Reich meant that he was banned from religious education. During the period of the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia , he and Abbot Eberhard Harzer were arrested on July 1, 1945 by soldiers of the Svoboda Army , on August 9 to Dux and on August 14 to the Libkovice camp (German: Liquitz) spent with Maria Ratschitz. After severe abuse, he died of heart failure on August 15 in the brown coal mine in Wiese . His grave is in the Osek monastery cemetery.
literature
- Heger, Dionysius, in: Biographia Cisterciensis (Cistercian Biography)
- Emil Valasek: "Cistercian monk as a victim of forced labor in 1945. Dionysius Franz Heger O. Cist." In: Forum Katholische Theologie 33, 2017, pp. 222–233.
- Tomáš Staněk: internment and forced labor. The camp system in the Czech lands 1945–1948 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2007.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heger, Dionysius Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heger, Dionysius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-Czech-German Cistercians and victims of internment and forced labor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chiesch |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 1945 |
| Place of death | Louka u Litvínova , Czechoslovakia |