Eduard Haiberger

Eduard Haiberger (born October 25, 1887 , † April 6, 1945 ) was an Austrian Roman Catholic clergyman, Cistercian and opponent of National Socialism .

life and work

Leopold Haiberger joined Wilhering Abbey and took the religious name Eduard . In 1911 he made his solemn profession ; He was ordained a priest in 1912. From 1917 he fulfilled the task of rent master (Oekonom) in the monastery.

As a member of the resistance organization Greater Austrian Freedom Movement ( Jacob Kastelic group ), he was arrested by the Gestapo on July 26, 1940 and, like his abbot Bernhard Burgstaller and several confreres, taken to the Anrath prison near Krefeld (today: Willich I prison ) in spring 1941 . He fell ill, was operated on without anesthesia, and released for incapacity. He died of the consequences of imprisonment before the end of the war.

literature

• Ulrich Bons, On the death of an Austrian abbot in the Anrath prison in 1941. In: Heimatbuch des Kreis Viersen 51, 2000, pp. 137, 139, 143.
• Erika Weinzierl : Monks against Hitler using the example of the Cistercian monastery Wilhering. In: Römische Historische Mitteilungen 28, 1986, pp. 365–378. (also in) Erika Weinzierl: test stand. Austrian Catholics and National Socialism . Mödling 1988, pp. 186-199.
• Alkuin Volker Schachenmayr (Ed.): The Anschluss in 1938 and the Consequences for Churches and Monasteries in Austria . Be and Be Verlag, Heiligenkreuz 2009, ISBN 978-3-9519898-5-3 .

Web links

• Reinhold J. Dessl: Resistance Wiheringer Cistercians against National Socialism . In: Annual report Stiftsgymnasium Wilhering (2007/08) . No. 98 , 2008, p. 7–19 ( online on the monastery website (PDF; 266 kB)).
• Entry in the database of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum