Edmund Friszke
Edmund Friszke (Frischke) (born June 4, 1902 in Zduńska Wola , † September 15, 1958 in Malmö ) was a Polish pastor of the Evangelical Augsburg Church .
Life
Friszke attended elementary school and high school in his hometown. He then studied theology at the University of Warsaw and got into the circle around Bishop Juliusz Bursche . His ordination took place on 6 March 1927. From 1927 to 1929 he was vicar at the Hl.-Holy Trinity Church in Lodz , then until his arrest in 1940 pastor of the evangelical church in the central Polish city of Radom , which after the German occupation to the " General " belonged, with subsidiary communities in Jawor and Kozienice , localities in the former Kielce Voivodeship .
Friszke was a staunch opponent of National Socialism and was therefore deported from Radom by the Gestapo on December 18, 1939 and taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on December 21, 1939 . From there he was transferred with other clergymen to the Dachau concentration camp on December 13, 1940 and housed in the pastor's block with prisoner number 22,500. After the liberation by the US Army on April 29, 1945 Friszke returned to Poland and settled in Masuria , where he became pastor in Olsztyn . He was again politically persecuted during Stalinism in Poland.
Friszke died of an operation while on vacation with other Polish evangelical pastors. His son from his second marriage is the well-known Polish contemporary historian Andrzej Friszke .
Web links
- Film about the life of Pastor Edmund Friszke, part 1 (Polish language)
- Film about the life of Pastor Edmund Friszke, part 2 (Polish language)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Friszke, Edmund |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frischke, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish evangelical clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zduńska Wola , Warsaw Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1958 |
| Place of death | Malmo , Sweden |