Ernst Gallin

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Hermann Ernst Gallin (born March 26, 1901 , † April 1, 1945 in Posen ) was a German Protestant pastor , member of the Confessing Church (BK) and prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp .

Life

Gallin comes from a Brandenburg craftsman family . His father was a master baker . After attending elementary school and obtaining his university entrance qualification , he studied Protestant theology in Berlin , Marburg and Königsberg . He passed his first theological exam on 1933 in Berlin. He then completed a teaching vicariate . After completing his second examination, President Kurt Scharf , a member of the Confessing Church, undertook his ordination in 1935. He was then employed as an assistant preacher in the parishes of Bober and Falkenrehde . In 1936 he was appointed to the parish office in Falkenrehde.

During the Second World War in 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , but after a few months he was released for health reasons so that he could go back to his spiritual duties. At one of his sermons , which were probably taken down, he had spoken in a dissident manner about the behavior of soldiers towards women. These contents of his sermons were reported to the Gestapo , because on August 18, 1941, Gestapo officers transferred him to the Potsdam Gestapo prison for “ protective custody ” . Three months later, on November 21, 1941, he was admitted to the Dachau concentration camp and assigned to the so-called pastor's block . From this time the Catholic priest Johannes Neuhäusler later reported on the fraternal contact of the clergy of different denominations in the block, to which Ernst Gallin belonged.

In May 1942, Gallin was released from concentration camp imprisonment. Shortly afterwards, a doctor from Potsdam diagnosed him with acute heart muscle weakness and anemic syndrome . A year later Ernst Gallin was appointed to the Daber parish in Pomerania . He and his colleague and superintendent there shared a fraternal community in the spirit of the Confessing Church.

When the Red Army entered Daber in March 1945, the two pastors agreed to stay with their parish. Gallin, however, was ordered by the Soviet commander with other men to work in Poznan. The exertion of walking there was the death sentence for the man, who was already in poor health. There he was able to hold devotions and prayer hours with the camp inmates for a few days, but he died on April 1, 1945.

Gallin was married and had six daughters.

literature

  • Petrus Mangold, Emil Thoma: List of clergy in Dachau concentration camp

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://daten.verwaltungsportal.de/daten/amtsblatt/2002_jg09_nr2_2106.pdf Retrieved August 1, 2011
  2. ↑ http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docs/1242/220407/2008cath2.pdf Retrieved August 1, 2011
  3. ↑ http://daten.verwaltungsportal.de/daten/amtsblatt/2002_jg09_nr2_2106.pdf Retrieved August 1, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Gallin, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gallin, Hermann Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, member of the Confessing Church (BK) and prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1901
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1945
Place of death Poses