Emil Kiesel

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Emil Kiesel (born August 28, 1910 in Schwerzen , today part of Wutöschingen ; † May 19, 1990 in Stühlingen ) was a German Catholic pastor and a staunch opponent of National Socialism .

Life

Emil Kiesel studied in Tübingen, where he joined the Catholic student union WkSt.V. in 1934 . Unitas Markomannia joined. After studying theology, he was ordained a priest on March 7, 1937 in Freiburg im Breisgau and was then chaplain in Hornberg , Konstanz- Wollmatingen , Ettenheim , Mannheim- Käfertal and from April 1940 in Pforzheim . There he also worked as a religion teacher at various schools. During his activity in Ettenheim he was interrogated by the Gestapo for the first time because he held a church service for Polish prisoners of war in Wilferdingen and when he went to the Hilda High School he hit a Hitler Youth leader on the right and left on the cheek because he was one of them Spit in the face of Polish prisoners of war who were working on the railway line there ” . From September 1940 he was no longer allowed to give religious education and on October 16, 1940 the Gestapo arrested him after he had made the treatment of Polish prisoners of war the subject of a sermon on love for the enemy. He was imprisoned in the prison in Pforzheim on Rohrstrasse until December 9, then in the pastors' block of the Dachau concentration camp until its liberation . His inmate number was 22838. While in detention, he was flogged and spent six weeks in the "bunker" because he refused to break the confessional secret after a fellow inmate confessed to him.

After the liberation, he worked as a prison pastor mainly in juvenile detention centers. In 1969, Kiesel was appointed papal chaplain with the title Monsignor . After his retirement in 1972, he was responsible for communities in Klettgau until 1987 and also looked after the prisoners at the penal institution in Waldshut . His conversations with the historian Hugo Ott became famous , in which Kiesel addressed the lack of solidarity in the concentration camp, both within the priests and between priests and their fellow prisoners.

literature

  • Emil Kiesel: Protective inmate No. 22838. Dachau concentration camp . In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv 90, 1970, pp. 52–58 ( digital ).
    • on this: Hugo Ott: An epilogue to the reports by concentration camp priests of the Archdiocese of Freiburg (FDA 90, 1970) . In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv 92, 1972, pp. 232-235 ( digital ).
  • Eugen Weiler: The clergy in Dachau as well as in other concentration camps and prisons, estate of Pastor Emil Thoma , expanded and edited by Eugen Weiler, Mödling 1971.
  • Paul Seibel: priest. Training and persecution , Haag + Herchen, Frankfurt 1994, ISBN 3-86137-200-2 , p. 103ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (ed.): Unitas manual . tape 2 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 1996, p. 278 .
  2. ↑ Memorial plaque for his co-primer Kurt Habich (accessed on July 30, 2014).
  3. ^ Emil Kiesel: Protective inmate No. 22838. Dachau concentration camp . In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv 90, 1970, pp. 52–58 ( digital ).
  4. ^ Emil Kiesel: Experiences with young people as prison chaplain . In: Wilhelm Bitter: Prison chaplaincy. Healing instead of punishing , Göttingen, 1957, pp. 340–346.
  5. ↑ see Bayerische Blätter für Volkskunde Volume 1, 1999, p. 180ff.
personal data
SURNAME Kiesel, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keller, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerzen
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1990
Place of death Stuehlingen