Ferdinand Maurath

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Ferdinand Maurath (born June 28, 1908 in Bühl ; † July 5, 1993 in Freiburg ) was a German pastor and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

As the oldest of five children of a bookseller, Maurath grew up first in Bühl and then in Lörrach . After graduating from high school there, he first studied medicine, but dropped out after two semesters to study theology at the universities of Münster and Freiburg . He then attended the seminary in St. Peter . On April 30, 1933 he was ordained a priest by Archbishop Conrad Gröber .

Between 1933 and 1937 he was employed as vicar in Ettlingen , Engen , Leutershausen , Oberzüge , Achern and Karlsruhe-Knielingen . In 1937 he came to Karlsruhe-Mühlburg . During these years of wandering, which were due to both his own medical history and the sick pastors, he repeatedly came into conflict with the National Socialist regime. He received his first complaint after a sermon in Bittelbrunn , where he criticized the Hitler Youth and the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM) because they had put their service time on the time of worship. He was reported again in 1936 after he had reprimanded a Hitler Youth leader during a Christian teaching lesson. Both advertisements were discontinued by the Gestapo .

In 1937, Maurath was warned by a district administrator after he had expelled three HJ representatives from a meeting place that was also used by a Catholic youth meeting because of an accidental double occupancy. A second warning was issued in Karlsruhe-Mühlberg in 1937 because of statements harmful to the state. In 1941 Maurath taught religion at the Gutenberg School. There he was reported by the Gestapo and warned of various violations. Among other things, he was accused of distributing forbidden brochures. On March 20, he was banned from school by the Gutenberg School after he reprimanded a student.

On May 2, 1941, Maurath was arrested. He had sent three writings from the half-Jewish Borkmeyer Verlag to former members of the Catholic youth. He was therefore in protective custody from May 2 to August 2, 1941 , including three weeks in solitary confinement . Despite the influence of the ordinariate in Freiburg, Maurath, who was in poor health, was not released, but deported to the Dachau concentration camp , where he arrived on August 4, 1941. There he was mainly used as a nurse. He was surprisingly released from the concentration camp on April 9, 1945.

His health remained poor until 1946. He then took up a vicar position in Inzlingen and in 1947 came to Feldkirch near Bad Krozingen as a parish administrator . On October 19, 1975, he was given the title of Spiritual Counsel ad honorem . The recognition took place with special appreciation of his courage to confess during the National Socialist period. Mauraths got involved in Feldkirch for Maximilian Kolbe and had an ossuary from 1600 next to the church renovated and consecrated as a chapel after its canonization in 1983, he was also committed to the Maximilian Kolbe work . He retired on July 1, 1984. He testified as a witness in the beatification and martyrdom trials for Karl Leisner .

In 1989 a TV report appeared on SWR about Maurer and his resistance activities.

literature

  • Adalbert Metzinger : People in Resistance - Central Baden 1933–1943 (=  special publication of the Rastatt district archive, volume 13 ). regional culture publishing house, Rastatt 2017, ISBN 978-3-89735-978-9 , p. 64-68 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adalbert Metzinger : People in Resistance - Mittelbaden 1933–1943 (=  special publication of the Rastatt district archive, volume 13 ). regional culture publishing house, Rastatt 2017, ISBN 978-3-89735-978-9 , p. 64 .
  2. ^ Adalbert Metzinger: People in Resistance - Central Baden 1933–1943 . Rastatt, S. 66 .
  3. ↑ a b Adalbert Metzinger: People in Resistance - Central Baden 1933–1943 . Rastatt, S. 67 .
  4. ↑ A walk through the historic Feldkirch , Gemeindeanzeiger Bad Krozingen, July 7, 1983, a copy available in the church
  5. ↑ a b Adalbert Metzinger: People in Resistance - Central Baden 1933–1943 . Rastatt, S. 68 .
  6. ^ Karl Leisner and concentration camp priest Ferdinand Maurath ›IKLK - Internationaler Karl Leisner Circle. Retrieved on February 6, 2018 (German).
  7. ↑ Hans-Karl Seeger: Karl Leisner: ordination and primacy in the Dachau concentration camp . LIT Verlag Münster, 2004, ISBN 978-3-8258-7277-9 , pp. 97 ( google.de [accessed on February 6, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Maurath, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor and resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Buhl
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1993
Place of death Freiburg