Franz Bulitta

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Franz Bulitta (born December 2, 1900 in Köslienen (Polish: Kieźliny) / Allenstein district in Warmia ( East Prussia ); † November 19, 1974 in Salzkotten , Paderborn district ) was clergyman and Catholic pastor of Willenberg / Ortelsburg district (East Prussia), then voluntary German clergyman in the (formerly West Prussian) Polish areas attached to the German Reich as parish administrator of the parishes in Elchwalde (Osiek) / district of Prussian Stargard and Schwetz , episcopal commissioner in the district of Schwetz (Weichsel) , parish administrator in Rittel / district of Konitz about the At the end of World War II and from 1948 parish administrator in Hedersleben and Kuratus in Gernrode .

Live and act

He was a brother of Alois and Josef Bulitta . After attending the elementary school in Köslienen / Allenstein district , he attended the Humanistic Gymnasium in Allenstein , where he passed his Abitur on March 7, 1921. This was followed by studying theology and philosophy at the State Academy in Braunsberg / East Prussia and, in the meantime, at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau (Easter 1921 to February 4, 1926). His Subdiakonatsweihe on July 19, 1925, on 14 February 1926 he was the bishop of Warmia, Augustine Bludau in the Cathedral of the Assumption and St. Andrew in Frombork for ordained priests . On the same day he was appointed chaplain of Groß Purden / Allenstein district. On December 20, 1926 he was appointed chaplain in Heligelinde in the Rastenburg district . From 1930 to 1933 he was a chaplain in Bischofsburg in the Rössel district (East Prussia). At the beginning of August 1933 he took up the position as chaplain in Marienwerder , where he was transferred to Nazi pressure. On February 27, 1936, the canonical institution took place in the parish in Willenberg / Ortelsburg district in the episcopal house chapel in Frauenburg . The introduction as pastor to the parish of St. Johannes Nepomuk in Willenberg / Ortelsburg district took place on April 13, 1936. There he was banned from teaching by the district president because of "political unreliability", several interrogations by the Gestapo , and surveillance by the police for a statement critical of the regime, which was met with vigorous protest by the Bishop's Warmia General Vicariate in Frombork / East Prussia (1936).

In the Polish part of West Prussia , the invasion of German troops after the beginning of World War II had brought about significant changes in church life. Bishop Stanisław Wojciech Okoniewski von Kulm had fled. Rome subordinated the diocese to Carl Maria Splett , the Bishop of Danzig . The priests were arrested and mostly taken to concentration camps, from where hardly anyone returned. 211 priests were murdered by the Gestapo in the diocese of Kulm . At the end of this action, West Prussia's rectories and chaplains were almost empty of priests. Cardinal Adolf Bertram von Breslau , the head of the East German Church Province, intervened and asked the dioceses bordering West Prussia for priests. Bishop Maximilian Kaller of Warmia then wrote to about 20 younger priests in his Warmia diocese with sufficient knowledge of the Polish language. About half of them agreed to go to West Prussia. Your own parishes should have a representative. Franz Bulitta wrote about his decision to go to West Prussia: “As early as October 1939, Bishop Kaller approached me about helping out in the bishopric of Kulm . I thought: So many men are at the front; why shouldn't I help out as a pastor in the occupied area? I had a reasonable command of the Polish language and was therefore able to hold services in German and Polish. Nevertheless, I found Polish difficult in everyday dealings. Father Johannes Pokart from the Missionshaus St. Adalbert, Mehlsack, was sent to my parish (in Willenberg ) as a substitute . ”Bishop Carl Maria Splett appointed Bulitta as parish administrator for the parish Elchwalde (Osiek) / Kr. Prussian Stargard (February 2, 1940) The Gestapo granted Bulitta a residence permit for pastoral work in West Prussia (February 8, 1940) On February 17, 1940, Bulitta came to Elchwalde (Osiek) / Kr. Prussian Stargard. A short time later, Bulitta was appointed parish administrator in Schwetz (April 1, 1940). In the same year, Bishop Carl Maria Splett appointed him Episcopal Commissioner in the Schwetz (Weichsel) district (November 17, 1940 to March 1, 1945). Bulitta also took over the additional administration of the parishes of Schönau, Pfennigsdorf (Pienonskowo) and Scherwindt (Sartowitz) in the Schwetz district as well as the parishes Kirchenjahn, Langenwalde (Kasperhausen) and Großwollental (Skórcz) in the Preußisch Stargard district (mid-1943). After the invasion of the Soviet army, he was initially held under house arrest for four weeks, but was then allowed to hold church services again in the communities in the Schwetz district (1945). He then became parish administrator in Großwollental (Skórcz) (April 1, 1945 to September 15, 1945), then again in Osiek (until October 14, 1946). He was then still the parish administrator in Rittel (formerly Konitz district in the former West Prussia) (November 1, 1946 to September 6, 1948) Bulitta summed up his time in the Pelplin diocese : "The years 1940 to 1948 were despite all the difficulties, and precisely because of that, a time of God's grace, which we felt very close at that time. May the work of the German priests in the Polish territories contribute to the fact that both peoples come closer to one another and fully reconcile. "The former Bishop of Warmia, Maximilian Kaller, particularly praised Bulitta's work in the former West Prussia beyond the end of the war:" I wish for To be able to do more for you and the Germans living in Poland, if I only knew how this could be done. I thank you for the work you have done in West Prussia and East Prussia . This work was a great blessing, especially because you stayed there until your last chance. ”(May 13, 1947) On September 6, 1948, Bulitta traveled with his aged father, Franz Bulitta senior, to the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ ) out.

Franz Bulitta was initially a parish representative (vicarius substitutus) in Hedersleben / Deanery Halberstadt (1948–1949) in the Soviet occupation zone and later in the GDR . He was then appointed Kuratus von Gernrode on September 23, 1949 , and at the same time he was appointed vicar of the parishes of Ballenstedt and Quedlinburg . In 1966 he retired and left for the FRG. On July 23, 1966, the Archbishop of Paderborn awarded him the honorary title of “clergyman hc” because of his services. In the west he still took on priestly duties in the St. Josefs home in Wewelsburg / Paderborn district and in the Klostereichen house in Neheim-Hüsten as well as in the St. Kilian parish retirement home in Letmathe / Märkischer Kreis .

Publications (selection)

  • 1940–1948 in the diocese of Kulm. Warmia letter 23, no. 92, Münster 1970, pp. 3–5.
  • History of the cath. Parish Willenberg. Ortelsburger Heimatblatt - Der Yorcksche Jäger Nov./Dec. 1973 No. 6, Jan./Feb. 1974 No. 1.
  • Homeless - at home. Thoughts on Christmas 1973. Ortelsburger Heimatblatt - Der Yorcksche Jäger Nov./Dec. 1973 No. 6.

literature

  • Michael Bulitta: Franz Bulitta - Catholic pastor in Willenberg, clergyman. In: Ortelsburger Heimatbote 2002 . S. 183-190 .
  • Alfons Dietrichsdorf: Franz Bulitta . In: Ortschronik von Köslienen near Allenstein . Self-published, Delmenhorst 1990, p. 160-161 .
  • Ulrich von Hehl et al .: Bulitta, Franz . In: Priests under Hitler's terror. A biographical and statistical survey. Part 1 . Schöningh, Paderborn 1996, ISBN 3-506-79839-1 , p. 573 .
  • Andrzej Kopiczko: Bulitta (Bulitt) Franciszek . In: Duchowieństwo katolickie diecezji warmińskiej w latach 1821-1845. Cz. 2 . Olsztyn 2000, ISBN 83-8707857-3 , p. 43-44 .
  • Stefan Samerski : Franz Bulitta . In: Priests in annexed Poland: the pastoral care of German clergy in the Polish areas attached to the German Reich 1939–1945 . Cultural Foundation of the German Displaced Persons, Bonn 1997, ISBN 978-3-88557-168-1 , p. 35-37, 75-81 .
  • Otto Wendorff: Geistl. Councilor Franz Bulitta † . In: Ortelsburger Heimatblatt - Yorckscher Jäger 21, Nov./Dec. 1974, p. 5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Short biography Pastor Franz Bulitta in the archives of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg
  2. ↑ a b Franz Bulitta. In: Michael Bulitta. Tribe list of the Bulitta family from the Allenstein district in Warmia (East Prussia). Bonn, self-published, 2018, VI.15.2.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Samerski S. Priest in annexed Poland. Cultural Foundation of German Expellees, 1997, p. 75
  4. ↑ Pastoral Journal for the Diocese of Warmia 1925, p. 73
  5. ↑ Pastoral Journal for the Diocese of Warmia 1926, p. 133
  6. ↑ a b c d Dietrichsdorf, A. Ortschronik von Köslienen near Allenstein, self-published Delmenhorst, 1990, p. 160f.
  7. ↑ Directorium Diözesis Warmiensis 1939, p 64
  8. ↑ Pastoral Journal for the Diocese of Warmia 1926, p. 134
  9. ↑ Kopiczko, A. Duchowienstwo Katolickie Dieceji Warminskiej w latach 1821–1945, Czesc 2 Slownik, Olsztyn, 2003, 43
  10. ↑ a b c Franz Bulitta. In: Hehl, and von, Kösters C. (arr.). Priest under Hitler's terror. A biographical and statistical survey. Volume I. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn, 1996, p. 573
  11. ↑ The Bishop of Warmia Maximilian, Frauenburg, February 29, 1936, No. 1320 (Warmia Archive, Münster)
  12. ^ Ortelsburger Heimatblatt - Der Yorcksche Jäger Nov./Dec. 1973 No. 6
  13. ↑ Heimatbote Ortelsburg 2002, p. 184
  14. ^ Bishop's Warmia General Vicariate, Frauenburg, May 29, 1936, No. 3516 (Warmia Archive, Münster)
  15. ↑ a b c d Bulitta Michael. Franz Bulitta - Catholic pastor in Willenberg, clergyman. Ortelsburger Heimatbote 2002, pp. 183–190.
  16. ↑ a b c d e Samerski S. Priest in annexed Poland. Cultural Foundation of German Expellees, 1997, p. 27.
  17. ↑ Samerski S. Priest in annexed Poland. Cultural Foundation of the German Expellees, 1997, pp. 29 and 79
  18. ↑ Warmia letter 23 , No. 92, Münster 1970, p. 5
  19. ^ Letter from Maximilian Kaller, Bishop of Warmia, to Pastor Franz Bulitta in Rittel, May 13, 1947, No. 3919/47 (Ermlandhaus archive in Münster)
  20. ↑ Samerski S. Priest in annexed Poland. Cultural Foundation of German Expellees, 1997, p. 81
  21. ^ Joppen R. The Archbishop's Commissariat Magdeburg, part 11. St. Benno-Verlag, Leipzig, 1989, p. 413.
  22. ↑ Allensteiner Letter No. 112, January 1, 1967, p. 187
personal data
SURNAME Bulitta, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spiritual Councilor and Catholic Pastor
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Köslienen , Allenstein district , Warmia , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 19th November 1974
Place of death Salzkotten , Paderborn district