Erich Sack
Erich Sack (born April 1, 1887 in Goldap ; † January 24, 1943 in Dachau ) was a German Protestant pastor , resistance fighter against National Socialism and concentration camp prisoner in Dachau .
Life
After attending primary school , Sack graduated from Friedrichsschule Gumbinnen . He then studied Protestant theology at Albertus University in Königsberg . He found his first job as assistant preacher in Hamburg-Eppendorf at the Lutheran Sankt-Ansgar-Schule. Closely connected with this was the " Bethlehem Deaconess House ". His mentor was the Hamburg pastor Max Glage , who later converted the Anschar congregation into a so-called denominational chapel congregation within the Hamburg Evangelical Lutheran regional church. Shortly before the First World War , Sack went back to his East Prussian homeland, where he became a pastor in Lyck . His other pastorships were then in Pillkallen , Allenburg , Groß Warningken (1938 to 1946: Steinkirch), Zinten and for eighteen years in Lasdehnen . There he came into sharp opposition to the German Christians . The NSDAP he called open a " national disaster ". He came under the surveillance of the Gestapo , was interrogated several times and efforts were made to force him out of office. In each of his worship three Gestapo men were in civilian under his pulpit .
In a confirmation lesson on August 6, 1942, he declared to the confirmants: “ A people who deny their faith will never win. “Thereupon he was taken into“ protective custody ” for ten days and brought to Tilsit , where he was accused of decomposing military strength during interrogation . His superintendent Thiel and his wife were able to see him there once and for the last time. On August 16, 1942, he was taken on a transport for deportation to the Dachau concentration camp and there on September 4, 1942. He was given inmate number 25843 and had to do hard labor there. After being emaciated and exhausted, he died, with his wife being told that the cause of death was “ pneumonia ” as the cause of death. His ash urn arrived for burial only in March . Because the community there adhered to the custom of burial , his urn was placed in a coffin and buried.
Erich Sack was married and had a son and seven daughters.
Honors
- The Evangelical Church in Germany commemorates Erich Sack with a day of remembrance in the Evangelical Name Calendar on January 24th .
- In 1987 a plaque of honor for Erich Sack was unveiled in the Trinity Church Hofstede - Riemke in Bochum as part of a memorial service in the presence of two daughters of the martyr.
literature
- Werner Oehme : Martyrs of Protestant Christianity 1933–1945. Twenty-nine life pictures , Berlin 1979, p. 114
Individual evidence
- ^ Anchar community
- ↑ The following information about the article is incorrect or only partially correct. Erich Sack has never been a pastor in Lyck (despite references to the contrary), at the age of 25 he was still much too young. He was also not in Pillkallen, which is now called Dobrowolsk (!), Rather, according to the Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book by Friedwald Moeller (Hamburg, 1968), the following time and location listing of the service in East Prussia results: 1913–1914 Vicar in Rautenberg , 1914– 1916 pastor in Allenburg , 1916–1923 in Groß Warningken (1938–1946: Steinkirch, the place no longer exists today), 1923–1926 in Zinten , 1926–1943 in Lasdehnen
- ↑ a b http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienE/Erich_Sack.html Query 24 January 2013
- ↑ http://archiv.preussische-allgemeine.de/1987/1987_08_22_34.pdf Retrieved July 1, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sack, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian and member of the Confessing Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goldap |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1943 |
| Place of death | Dachau |