Case of Szczecin
The case Stettin was a 1943 action taken to the Gestapo against in Szczecin and Pomerania active Roman Catholic clergy . In Pomerania the Catholic diaspora formed a minority, in the Protestant Stettin there was only the Roman Catholic parish of the Basilica of St. John the Baptist . Clergymen worked there such as the priests Herbert Simoleit , Carl Lampert and Friedrich Lorenz .
The Gestapo deployed its agent Franz Pissaritsch under the code name Georg Hagen , who was able to win the trust of the Szczecin Catholics and their clergy, to provide evidence of activities of the Catholic resistance against National Socialism . On the night of February 4 to 5, 1943, 40 people were arrested in Stettin , Greifswald , Wolgast , Luisenthal near Gollnow , Zinnowitz on Usedom and in Parchim , including eleven Roman Catholic clergymen such as Albert Hirsch , a pastor Borislawitz. The priests Simoleit, Lorenz and Lampert were sentenced to death by the Reich Court Martial in Torgau and beheaded on November 13, 1944 in the prison in Halle (Saale) . Their urns were buried in the cemetery at the local church of St. Gertruden ; after the end of the war they were transferred to their hometowns. The other arrested people were deported to concentration camps.
literature
- Wolfgang Knauft, Grzegorz Wejman (ed.): Akcja "Fall Stettin". Ottonianum, 2004, ISBN 83-7041-253-X .
- Jan Musekamp: Between Stettin and Szczecin. Metamorphoses of a city from 1945 to 2005. Volume 27 of the publications of the German Poland Institute Darmstadt, German Poland Institute, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, ISBN 3-44706-273-8 , p. 30.
- Heinz Kühn: martyrs of the diocese of Berlin: Klausener, Lichtenberg, Lampert, Lorenz, Simoleit, Mandrella, Hirsch, Wachsmann, Metzger, Schäfer, Willimsky, Lenzel, Froehlich. More publishing house, 1952.