Erwin Kock

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Erwin Kock (born December 7, 1905 in St. Petersburg , † January 23, 1979 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Protestant pastor.

Life

Kock studied after obtaining his university entrance Protestant theology and became a minister ordained . He was one of the few pastors who actively resisted the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany and who stood up for persecuted Jews .

After liberation from National Socialism , Kock worked in the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime (VVN) and became a member of the Austrian Peace Council . In 1948 he gave a commemorative speech on the occasion of the inauguration of a memorial cross for Austrian concentration camp victims and those politically persecuted at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

In the VVN magazine “ Der neue Mahnruf ” he appeared with articles in which he erected a memory of the Jewish and political victims of the Nazi regime. In June 1950, as chairman of the Austrian Peace Council, he gave the main speech at the First Austrian Peace Congress in the Great Concert Hall in Vienna , where 2,100 delegates from 300 peace groups in the country had gathered. Since the foundation of the Christian Peace Conference in 1958 he has been one of its staff. His stand against racism and anti-Semitism is one of the assets of his life.

Publications

  • Collection campaign for the memorial cross, in: Der neue Mahnruf, No. 1, October 1, 1948
  • Honor the dead - Teach the living, in: Der neue Mahnruf, No. 2, November 15, 1948.

literature

  • The mouth of the dead is closed, but ours speaks! In: Österreichische Volksstimme, November 3, 1948
  • Grössing J.- Erwin Kock, (1986) in: Information Service of the Salzburg Group, Dec. 1986, 17–28

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.nachkriegsjustiz.at/vgew/1110_simmeringerhptstr_gruppe40.php
  2. ↑ http://www.klahrgesellschaft.at/Mitteilungen/Schoenfeld_2_00.html
  3. ↑ http://www.netzwerkgegengewalt.org/wiki.cgi?AspekteAntisemitismusInEuropa
personal data
SURNAME Kock, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pastor
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1979
Place of death Vienna