Engelmar Out of time

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Blessed Father Engelmar Out of time

Engelmar Unzeit , born as Hubert Un.2010 (born March 1, 1911 in Greifendorf near Zwittau , Schönhengstgau ; † March 2, 1945 in Dachau concentration camp ), was a German Catholic priest, confessor and martyr during the Nazi era. He was beatified in Würzburg on September 24, 2016 .

Life

After primary school, Hubert Unzeit worked on his parents' farm in Greifendorf; his father died of typhus in 1916 as a Russian prisoner of war , and his mother had to raise her six children alone. Since Unzeit wanted to become a missionary , at the age of 17 he joined the community of Mariannhiller Missionaries in Reimlingen near Nördlingen and was given the religious name Engelmar. As a late-career worker , he made up his Abitur in 1934 and then studied theology and philosophy in Würzburg . In 1939 he was ordained a priest, on August 15, 1939 he celebrated Primiz in his hometown Greifendorf. The beginning of World War II prevented him from fulfilling his longing to go on a mission . Instead, Father Engelmar initially worked in the religious house in Riedegg ( Upper Austria ), where he looked after French prisoners of war, among other things. From October 1940 he was a pastor in Glöckelberg near Krummau in the Bohemian Forest .

He protested against the persecution of the Jews both in religion class and from the pulpit. At the beginning of 1941, P. Engelmar was charged with “malicious statements and defense of the Jews” and arrested by the Gestapo on April 21 . After six weeks of pre-trial detention in Linz on the Danube, he was taken to the Dachau concentration camp on June 8, 1941, without a trial ; there he was imprisoned in the pastor's block . When a typhus epidemic broke out in November 1944, P. Engelmar volunteered to take care of the sick. He gave the sacraments of death to hundreds of dying people, including many Russians. He saved other inmates from starvation by giving them his food. Eventually he died of typhus himself . Fellow prisoners and survivors referred to him as the "Angel of Dachau" and " Maximilian Kolbe of the Germans". For example, Fr. Clemente Pereira SJ said of him: "I do not like to use the word 'saint'. It is in the right place with Father Unzeitung. He was a saint!"

beatification

The beatification process began in 1991. In 2009 Pope Benedict XVI signed a decree of the Congregation for Canonization , which inadvertently awards the heroic degree of virtue . On January 22, 2016, Pope Francis confirmed the martyrdom , with which the decisive conditions for the beatification were fulfilled. The Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints , Angelo Amato , beatified Father Engelmar on September 24, 2016 in the Würzburg Cathedral .

Commemoration

  • P. Engelmar Unzeit's ashes were smuggled out of the concentration camp and buried on April 30, 1945 in the municipal cemetery in Würzburg. In 1968 the Mariannhill missionaries transferred the relics to the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Würzburg, where Father Engelmar had once been ordained, and set up a memorial in a chapel there.
  • The place Glöckelberg in the Bohemian Forest went under as a result of the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans , only the church survived and was renovated after the turn of 1989/1990. Today it is also used for church services by Germans and Czechs in memory of Engelmar Unzeit. One of their windows depicts Engelmar Unzeit as a concentration camp inmate who stands by his fellow prisoners.

Fonts

  • Letters from the Dachau concentration camp (1941–1945) , compiled by Wolfgang Zürrlein. Missionsverlag Mariannhill, Reimlingen 1993, ISBN 3-922267-61-0 .

literature

  • Adalbert Ludwig Balling , Reinhard Abeln: Spokes in the wheel of time - Father Engelmar Unzeit and the priest's block in the Dachau concentration camp . Herder, Freiburg 1985 2 , ISBN 3-451-08241-1 .
  • Adalbert Ludwig Balling: Leave a trace of love. Father Engelmar (Hubert) Untimely, Mariannhill missionary “Martyrs of Charity” in the Dachau concentration camp . Missionsverlag Mariannhill, Reimlingen and Würzburg 1984, ISBN 3-922267-27-0 .
  • Adalbert Ludwig Balling: Good people don't die, they live on in the memories of their friends. Mariannhiller portraits . Mariannhiller Missionare, Würzburg 1989, pp. 196-200.
  • Rudolf Grulich : The "Angel of Dachau" was a compatriot of Oskar Schindler . On the 50th anniversary of Father Engelmar Hubert Unzeit's death . In: Mitteilungen des Sudetendeutschen Priesterwerk , 1995, pp. 7-10.
  • Stefan Kruschina: The Angel of Dachau. A picture of life by P. Engelmar Unzeit . Sudeten German Priestly Work, Königstein 1988.
  • Albert Oppitz, Kurt Cerwenka: The angel of Dachau. P. Engelmar Out of time. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Volume 47, Linz 1993, Issue 1, pp. 45–49, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Otfrid Pustejovsky: Christian resistance against Nazi rule in the Bohemian countries. An inventory of the conditions in the Sudetenland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . Lit, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1703-9 , pp. 118–120 (Chapter 10.1.2: P. Engelmar (Hubert) Out of time ).
  • Eric Steinhauer:  Out of time, Engelmar (Hubert). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 1458-1459.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Rudolf Zinnhobler : Against the flow of time. P. Engelmar Out of Time - a Victim of National Socialism. In: New archive for the history of the Diocese of Linz. Volume 8, Issue 2, Linz 1993/94, pp. 204–207, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Adalbert Ludwig Balling , Art .: Pater Engelmar (Hubert) Untimely, Mariannhiller missionary . In: Helmut Moll (ed. 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 II, pp. 985–988.
  • Missionaries from Mariannhill , German Province: Novena in memory of the Blessed Father Engelmar Unzeit CMM. Missionary von Mariannhill (1911-1945) , Würzburg 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rudolf Grulich: P. "Love doubles the strength": The "Angel of Dachau" is to be beatified . Church in Need , October 19, 2008, updated March 2, 2015, accessed September 18, 2016.
  2. ^ Prelate Hermann Scheipers in search of traces . In: Münstersche Zeitung of November 21, 2008.
  3. ↑ Victims of the National Socialists: Medals of the Order of the Father Returned prematurely . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 6, 2016, accessed on September 18, 2016.
  4. ^ Missionaries of Mariannhill: Novena in memory of the Blessed Father Engelmar Unzeitung CMM . Ed .: German Province. Würzburg, S. 46 .
  5. ^ Robert Ellsberg: Blessed Among Us: Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses . Liturgical Press, Collegeville 2016, ISBN 978-0-8146-4721-9 , p. 125.
  6. ^ Promulgazione di Decreti della Congregazione delle Cause dei Santi. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , January 22, 2016, accessed January 22, 2016 (Italian).
  7. ^ Rainer Münz, Rainer Ohliger: Forgotten Germans - remembered Germans. Refugees, displaced persons, resettlers . In: Tony Judt (ed.): On rewriting history. Politics of Remembrance after 1945 and 1989 (= Transit, Vol. 15). New Critique Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-8015-0329-1 , pp. 141–157, here p. 156.
  8. ↑ César Franck: "The Beatitudes"
  9. ↑ New center for the Linz Cathedral. Bishop Manfred Scheuer consecrated the new altar, a seven-ton block. In: OÖN, December 8, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Untimely, Engelmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Out of time, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious priest, martyr, blessed
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifendorf near Zwittau , Schönhengstgau
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1945
Place of death Dachau concentration camp