Franz Jägerstätter

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Franz Jägerstätter on the poster for his beatification

Franz Jägerstätter , born as Franz Huber (born May 20, 1907 in St. Radegund , Upper Austria ; † August 9, 1943 in Brandenburg-Görden ), was an Austrian farmer and resistance fighter . As a conscientious objector in World War II , he was sentenced to death and executed for “ degrading military strength ”. Jägerstätter has been venerated as a blessed in the Roman Catholic Church since 2007 .

Life

Origin, youth and family

Farm of the Jägerstätter family

Franz Jägerstätter was born out of wedlock in his mother's parents' house, the Adamsölde, Hadermark 22, and grew up there. His father was named Franz Bachmeier († October 25, 1914 in Walawa near Przemyśl ), his mother Rosalia Huber. Since his mother was single when he was born, he was called Franz Huber for the first ten years of his life. His parents were poor and could neither marry nor raise a child, which is why Franz stayed with his maternal grandmother Elisabeth Huber until 1916, when he came to the farm of his fallen father, to his grandparents Bachmeier. On February 19, 1917, his mother married Heinrich Jägerstätter, a farmer in St. Radegund, who adopted Franz , who therefore bore the name Franz Jägerstätter from then on. Heinrich Jägerstätter's father, Matthäus Jägerstätter († 1930), who also lived at the court and who owned many books, made him enjoy reading.

Franz Jägerstätter worked on a farm in Teising in the summer of 1927 , then as a miner in Eisenerz until 1930 . With the money he acquired, he bought a Puch motorcycle (series 250), with which he caused a sensation because it was the first motorcycle to be registered in St. Radegund. When his stepfather Heinrich Jägerstätter, who had no children of his own, died on May 8, 1933, Franz inherited the farm. A few months later, on August 1, 1933, Theresia Auer, maid at Jägerstätter's farm, gave birth to a girl who was baptized Hildegard. Franz Jägerstätter stated that he was the father of the illegitimate child.

On April 9, 1936, Maundy Thursday , he married Franziska Schwaninger (born March 4, 1913 in Hochburg-Ach ; † March 16, 2013 in St. Radegund ). The married couple decided not to have a wedding reception and instead went on a pilgrimage to Rome . The marriage resulted in the three daughters Rosalia (* 1937), Maria (* 1938) and Aloisia (* 1940).

Resistance to National Socialism

The parish church of St. Radegund , where Jägerstätter was a sacristan

After his wedding, stimulated by the piety of his wife, he attended church services more often , read the Bible every day , studied church doctrines and read religious literature, especially descriptions of saints. In January 1938 he saw in a dream a train that more and more people were getting on and heard a voice say: "This train is going to hell". He interpreted this dream as a warning against National Socialism , which was incompatible with the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church .

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich on March 12, 1938, he refused to accept the post of mayor that had been offered to him . In the referendum that followed on April 10th on the reunification of Austria with the German Reich , he was the only one in town to vote “No”. The electoral authority, however, suppressed the dissenting vote and reported 100% approval for the connection. This day, on which many clerics must have voted “Yes”, he later described as “Maundy Thursday of Austria”, because “it was there that the Church of Austria was captured”.

His rejection of National Socialism was initially evident in the fact that he withdrew more and more from public life in his community, did not take advantage of the NSDAP's benefits and did not donate anything to the party, although he was otherwise very generous. In 1940 ten local residents, including Franz Jägerstätter, were denounced in a letter to the mayor as opponents of National Socialism ; however, the mayor did not forward the letter to any authorities.

Conscientious objection to military service

The memorial plaque for Jägerstätter at the former Reich Court Martial in Berlin
Stumbling block for Franz Jägerstätter
Jägerstätter's grave in St. Radegund
War memorial in St. Radegund with the name of Jägerstätters

On June 17, 1940, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in Braunau am Inn . Because at that time he "considered it a sin not to obey the orders of the state", he also oathed Hitler there . Jägerstätter had refused to apply for exemption, but was able to return to his farm after a few days through the intervention of the mayor. In October 1940 he was called up for basic training as a driver in Enns . On December 8, 1940, he joined the Third Order of St. Francis a. In April 1941, at the request of his home parish, he was classified as “indispensable” and was able to return to his family. Afterwards, Jägerstätter celebrated Holy Mass every day and from the summer of 1941 was sacristan in the parish church of St. Radegund .

The negative experiences in the military, the euthanasia murders of the National Socialists, of which he learned about this time, and the persecution of the Church by the National Socialists consolidated his decision not to return to the military. The momentous decision of Jägerstätter was based not only on the numerous conversations and letters with friends (here especially with R. Mayr) and clergy, but also on the thorough reading of the Bible, numerous small scripts and books. He publicly stated that as a devout Catholic he was not allowed to do military service because it would be against his religious conscience to fight for the National Socialist state. Those around him tried to change his mind and pointed out his responsibility to his family, but could not refute his arguments. He even went to see Josef Fließer , the Bishop of Linz ; this also advised him against conscientious objection. His wife Franziska supported him, although she was aware of the consequences.

Imprisonment, conviction and death

On February 23, 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in Enns, where he reported on March 1. After the declaration of his refusal to do military service, he was taken to the armed forces remand prison in Linz on March 2. There he learned that other men were also refusing to do military service and resisting. On May 4th he was relocated to Berlin-Tegel . He refused to revoke his conscientious objection. His last doubts were dispelled when he learned from the prison chaplain, Heinrich Kreutzberg, that the Austrian Pallottine Father Franz Reinisch had also refused military service and had been executed for it. Jägerstätter said: "I always said that, I can't be on the wrong path, but if even a priest made that decision and died for it, then I can do it too."

On July 6, sentenced the 2nd Senate of the Reich Court Martial (RCT) in Berlin-Charlottenburg for the military morale to death . On July 14th, the judgment was confirmed by Admiral Max Bastian , the judge of the RKG. According to the RKG, Jägerstätter was ready to provide medical services, which the court did not respond to. Franz Jägerstätter was brought to the Brandenburg an der Havel prison on August 9, 1943 , where he was executed by guillotine at 4 p.m. The urn with his ashes was brought to St. Radegund at the end of the war and buried there on August 9, 1946.

Franz Jägerstätter has passed down the saying: "Better to tie your hands than your will!"

Appreciation

Window dedicated to Franz Jägerstätter in the Votive Church in Vienna
The memorial for Jägerstätter in St. Radegund

Jägerstätter's life was not without contradictions and breaks. As a worker in Eisenerz he almost lost his faith and then wanted to enter a monastery . On the advice of his pastor, Josef Karobath, he remained a farmer, wrote poetry and was later also a caring father to his illegitimate daughter.

His death continues to cause controversy to this day. His wife Franziska was repeatedly accused of being complicit in her husband's death because she had not prevented him from conscientious objection . In fact, she had tried very well to change her husband's mind. "I couldn't talk Franzl out of it," she said in an interview. Since Franz Jägerstätter was not recognized as a resistance fighter, his wife was not awarded a widow's pension until 1950 according to the Austrian War Victims Welfare Act. It was only after violent disputes that the name Franz Jägerstätter was added to the war memorial in Sankt Radegund among the dead in the Second World War .

Although Jägerstätter tried to live his faith consistently, he was rejected by many in the Catholic Church because of his stance on the question of military service. In 1946 an article about him that was supposed to appear in the Linzer Kirchenzeitung was rejected on the instructions of Bishop Fließer with the following reason: “I consider those ideal Catholic boys and theologians and priests and fathers to be the greater heroes who fought in the heroic fulfillment of their duties [...] have and have fallen. Or are Bible Students and Adventists who 'consistently' preferred to die in the concentration camp rather than take up arms the greater heroes? "

Only after decades did a slow process of processing and appreciation begin. The 1964 book by Gordon C. Zahn ( In Solitary Witness. The life and death of Franz Jägerstätter ) inspired the peace movement Pax Christi in the United States and strengthened Daniel Ellsberg's commitment against the Vietnam War . Axel Corti made a film in 1971 with the title The Jägerstätter case , which caused some discussion. The Austrian actor and cabaret artist Kurt Weinzierl (1931–2008) took on the leading role .

Since 1983 Erna Putz has organized commemorations every year on the anniversary of Franz Jägerstätter's death in Ostermiething and St. Radegund. The day of remembrance has been shaped and supported by former soldiers of the German Wehrmacht since 1986. From 1990 to 2004 the writer Michael Davies gave readings on Jägerstätter, in which he presented him as a role model for Catholics in today's liberal - hedonistic society. In 1993 the Austrian Post honored Franz Jägerstätter by issuing a special stamp , and his farm was set up as a place of remembrance and meeting place. In the same year, the painter Ernst Degasperi showed the cycle of paintings Light in the Dark in Yad Vashem . In 1995 the fourth Braunau Contemporary History Days dealt with Franz Jägerstätter under the title Necessary Treason . On May 7, 1997, the Berlin Regional Court overturned Franz Jägerstätter's death sentence.

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of death in 2003, 560 works by students were submitted to a competition. On the 70th anniversary of his death, a memorial event took place in the Brandenburg-Görden prison memorial. In 2006, at the suggestion of Andreas Maislinger, a stumbling block was laid in front of the Jägerstätter-Haus in Sankt Radegund by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig and the Franz-Jägerstätter-Park was opened in Braunau am Inn . At Vienna Bierhäuselberg in the 14th district , the Jägerstätterstraße was named after him 1,993th Since August 2015 there is a Franz-Jägerstätter-Weg in Berlin-Kaulsdorf.

On May 20, 2010, the eve of his memorial day, the dormitory of the Catholic University Community Linz in Mengerstrasse was renamed the dormitory for students Franz Jägerstätter . On June 29, 2011 the library of the Cardinal König Haus in Vienna-Hietzing was named Franz and Franziska Jägerstätter-Raum . On October 26, 2014, a peace bell dedicated to Franz Jägerstätter and his wife Franziska was consecrated in the Linz family church by former bishop Maximilian Aichern . A memorial plaque is located in the parish church of St. Stephanus in Triftern, Lower Bavaria .

In October 2014 Jägerstätter was honored together with other persecuted persons at the opening of the memorial for those persecuted by the Nazi military justice . In 2019, a film by Terrence Malick about the life of Jägerstätter was released under the title A Hidden Life . The main role was played by August Diehl .

In 2016, a “Jägerstätter bell” was consecrated in the parish and pilgrimage church of Frauenberg an der Enns ( Styria ), which rings every day at 9.00 a.m. for ten minutes for persecuted Christians worldwide. In this church, which also has a small bone relic of the canonized Franz Jägerstätter, a Jägerstätter worship has developed.

100th birthday

Around the 100th birthday of Jägerstätter, a star pilgrimage and a festive church service took place on May 19 and 20, 2007 in St. Radegund. Governor Josef Pühringer presented the 94-year-old Franziska Jägerstätter on May 20, 2007 in St. Radegund with the Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria, awarded by Federal President Heinz Fischer . Three years later she received the papal decoration of honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice from Bishop Ludwig Schwarz .

On the other hand, almost at the same time , the Catholic military superior Siegfried Lochner, who worked at the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt , described Franz Jägerstätter as "a pitiable victim of his erring conscience and the external circumstances of his time", who did not want to participate in a war that many regarded as a "just war of defense" was seen, and quoted in this context the Trier Bishop Bornewasser , who wrote in a pastoral letter in 1947: “Fatherland love means loyalty. Whoever breaks loyalty is a traitor. "

At the ceremony for 90 years of Upper Austria on November 2, 2008, Federal President Fischer paid tribute to the “heroism of men and women who at that time - often at the sacrifice of their lives - resisted an inhuman regime and contributed to the re-establishment of a free, independent democratic republic of Austria. Franz Jägerstätter and Robert Bernardis both lived in Upper Austria. They are personalities in the history of this country and we can be proud of them. "

beatification

In 1997 the beatification process was initiated at the diocesan level. Cathedral pastor Johann Bergsmann was initially active as a postulator , but he died on June 14, 1998. Manfred Scheuer was then appointed as postulator. On June 1, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI authorized the publication of the ecclesiastical recognition of the martyrdom of Franz Jägerstätter. The beatification took place with the reading of Benedict XVI. Approved Apostolic Letter Omnia possideo by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins on October 26, 2007 in the Mariendom in Linz . May 21st, the day of Jägerstätter's baptism, was set as the liturgical feast day, since the feast of St. Teresia Benedicta is committed from the cross .

On October 25, 2017, the Franz and Franziska Jägerstätter Institute was founded at the Catholic Private University in Linz on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his beatification .

Works

  • Edited by Erna Putz: prison letters and records. Franz Jägerstätter refused military service in 1943. Veritas, Linz / Passau 1987, ISBN 3-85329-578-9 .
  • Edited by Erna Putz and Manfred Scheuer: We have strengthened each other. Letters to Franziska Jägerstätter on her 90th birthday. Edition Kirchenzeitung, Linz 2003, ISBN 3-902237-04-X .
  • Edited by Erna Putz: Franz Jägerstätter. Records 1941–1943. The entire correspondence with Franziska. Styria, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-222-13232-2 .

Film and theater

Movies
Dramas
  • Eye Witness (German: "Eyewitness"; also listed as iWitness ) by Joshua Sobol . World premiere: Cameri-Theater Tel Aviv 2003 (director: Paulus Manker ); German-language premiere 2004 St. Gallen (director: Joshua Sobol). Austrian premiere in Linz 2005 (director: Christian Wittmann). Further performances in Los Angeles, London 2007
  • The legacy of Martin Winklbauer . Halsbach , 1989. Since then numerous performances under the direction of the author. ISBN 3-87553-371-2
  • Jägerstätter by Felix Mitterer . First performance on June 20, 2013 in the Theater in der Josefstadt
Fair
  • Missa Heroica 1998/99 by the Czech composer Pavel Smutný (* 1975) to promote the beatification of Franz Jägerstätter.
Opera
  • Franz Jägerstätter . Opera by Viktor Fortin (libretto by Gerd Linke ): First performance on September 22, 2007 in Graz (Church of the Franciscan Monastery) (Director: Paul Flieder ). Further performances in Linz (Old Cathedral) on the occasion of the beatification of Jägerstätter on October 26, 2007.

See also

literature

  • Kurt Benesch : The search for Jägerstätter. A biographical novel. Styria, Graz a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-222-12215-6 .
  • Johann Berger: Franz Jägerstätter. Attempt to approach his theological and philosophical-political thinking. IMS - Institute for Military Security Policy at the National Defense Academy , Vienna 1989, DNB 920335101 , OCLC 75246452 .
  • Georg Bergmann: Franz Jägerstätter. A life decided by conscience, shaped by Christ. Christiana, Stein am Rhein 1988, ISBN 3-7171-0777-1 .
  • Severin Lederhilger (Ed.): Franz Jägerstätter. Christian and Martyr. Bishop Ordinariate of the Diocese of Linz, Linz 2007, ISBN 978-3-9501682-4-2 .
  • Andreas Maislinger : The Franz Jägerstätter case. In: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.): Yearbook 1991. Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-901142-02-9 , pp. 20–32 ( online , PDF ).
  • Ernst Bruckmüller (Ed.): Österreich-Lexikon . Volume 2, Verlag-Gemeinschaft Österreich-Lexikon, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85498-385-9 , p. 132.
  • Erna Putz : Franz Jägerstätter. Better to tie your hands than your will. 3rd edition, Franz Stein Maßl, Grünbach 1996, ISBN 3-900943-46-X .
  • Erna Putz: Franz Jägerstätter - Märtyrer: Shining example in dark times. Episcopal Ordinariate of the Diocese of Linz, Linz 2007, ISBN 978-3-902427-39-7 ( PDF ).
  • Erna Putz, Severin Renoldner : Franz Jägerstätter - Christian and Martyr: with handwritten original quotes from his letters and notes. Diocese of Linz, Linz 2007, ISBN 978-3-9501682-4-2 .
  • Pax Christi Upper Austria (Ed.): Franz Jägerstätter. In memory of his testimony. A handout. Edition Kirchen-Zeit-Geschichte, Linz 2001, ISBN 3-9500891-4-4 .
  • Alfons Riedl , Josef Schwabeneder (ed.): Franz Jägerstätter. Christian faith and political conscience. Thaur, Vienna a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-85400-041-3 .
  • Manfred Scheuer (Ed.): Ge-Thinking. Mauthausen / Gusen - Hartheim - St. Radegund. Edition Kirchen-Zeit-Geschichte. Linz 2002, ISBN 3-902330-00-7 .
  • Manfred Scheuer: Blessed are those who do not use force. The testimony of Franz Jägerstätter. Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7022-2863-7 .
  • Thomas Schlager-Weidinger : Jägerstätter - out of the context of society. CD-ROM, edition insight, Linz 2003.
  • Thomas Schlager-Weidinger: '... even if it costs your life'. Franz Jägerstätter and his conscience. Wagner, Linz 2010, ISBN 978-3-902330-51-2 .
  • Paul Gerhard Schoenborn : Alphabets of the Succession. Martyr of the political Christ. Hammer, Wuppertal 1996, ISBN 3-87294-737-0 .
  • Franz-Josef Tremer: Brothers in Spirit. Franz the Jägerstätter and Reinisch the Schoenstatters. In: Regnum. 41st year, issue 4, Dec. 2007, ISSN  0341-3322 , pp. 179-188.
  • Monika Würthinger: Franz Jägerstätter-Gedenken 1997. In: New archive for the history of the Diocese of Linz. Volume 12, Issue 1, Linz 1998/99, pp. 14-25, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Gordon C. Zahn: He followed his conscience. The lonely testimony of Franz Jägerstätter. (Original title: In Solitary Witness translated by Grete Steinböck). Styria, Graz a. a. 1988, ISBN 3-222-11202-9 .
  • Gordon C. Zahn : Franz Jägerstätter. Martyrs of conscience. Pax Christi Tirol, Innsbruck 1987.
  • Rudolf Zinnhobler : From Florian to Jägerstätter. Witnesses of faith in Upper Austria. Edition Kirchen-Zeit-Geschichte, Linz 2004, ISBN 3-902330-05-8 .

Web links

Commons : Franz Jägerstätter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erna Putz, FJ Better hands… tied up , p. 33 and Erna Putz: FJ - Märtyerer , p. 10.
  2. ↑ Erna Putz, FJ Better hands ... tied , p. 32.
  3. ↑ Jägerstätter's paternity was at times questioned in St. Radegund because the girl had apparently been born "two months early"; Erna Putz, FJ Better hands ... tied , p. 37.
  4. ↑ Franziska Jägerstätter is dead. In: ooe.orf.at. March 17, 2013, accessed March 17, 2013 .
  5. ↑ The Bishop of Linz, Johannes Maria Gföllner , had already written in his pastoral letter in January 1933: It was impossible to be “both a good Catholic and a real National Socialist at the same time”. According to Kurt Benesch, The Search for Jägerstätter , Jägerstätter bought this shepherd's letter several times and distributed it around the town. In April 1937, Bishop Gföllner had a short version of the anti-National Socialist encyclical Pius XI. Read with burning concern in his diocese.
  6. ↑ The autograph of this dream has been in the Jägerstätter reliquary since October 26, 2007.
  7. ↑ In St. Radegund there were no National Socialists before the Anschluss and nobody wanted to take over the mayor's office. A local mayor was only found when the district authorities threatened to appoint a foreign commissioner. See Erna Putz, FJ Better hands ... tied , p. 69.
  8. ↑ He also resigned from the volunteer fire brigade because it would have obliged him to donate to the NSDAP. See Erna Putz, FJ Better hands ... tied , p. 72.
  9. ^ According to the protocol of the Reich Court Martial of July 14, 1943; Copy in FJ Christ and Martyrs , p. 24f.
  10. ↑ Rudolf Mayr has been missing since August 12, 1943, near Smolensk .
  11. ↑ In the Deanery Ostermiething two thirds of the priests working there, among them Josef Karobath in 1940, were arrested by the National Socialists. Cf. Erna Putz, FJ Better hands… tied up , pp. 61–63.
  12. ↑ Thomas Schlager-Weidinger, '... and if it costs your life'. Franz Jägerstätter and his conscience , pp. 25–44, 198–201.
  13. ↑ Quoted in Erna Putz: FJ - Märtyrer , p. 110.
  14. ^ A b Manfred Messerschmidt : Annulment of the death sentence against Franz Jägerstätter. (PDF) In: Critical Justice. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft , 1998, archived from the original on January 6, 2020 ; accessed on January 6, 2020 : “Franz Jägerstetter refused. He was on the right side from the start. It was just recognized far too late. "
  15. ↑ Gordon C. Zahn quotes in He followed his conscience on p. 104 the questioning of the Jägerstätter public defender Friedrich Leo Feldmann: They literally asked him [...] to at least agree to a compromise and to accept the service without a weapon. According to the protocol of the Reich Court Martial, this representation is incorrect. It says: He [Jägerstätter] was ready to serve as a medical soldier.
  16. ↑ The original quote is: I will now write down a few words here [...] Even if I write them with my hands tied, but still better than if the will were tied. Quoted in Erna Putz: FJ - Märtyrer , p. 115.
  17. ↑ Monika Würthinger: The “Jägerstätter Window” in the Vienna Votive Church ( provost parish for the divine Savior). In: New archive for the history of the Diocese of Linz. Volume 12, Issue 1, Linz 1998/99, pp. 31–32, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  18. ^ Jägerstätter widow for beatification. In: orf.at, October 25, 2007.
  19. ↑ The reason for the rejection in the decision of August 10, 1948 was as follows: He [Jägerstätter] was considered melancholy and, before being drafted into the Wehrmacht, stated that he would not fight for Hitler. This conviction did not arise from a will to defend against National Socialism for a free Austria, but from reasons of its religious beliefs. Quoted in Erna Putz: FJ Better hands… tied , p. 277.
  20. ↑ quoted from Erna Putz: Franz Jägerstätter poses the question about the war. On the reception of an uncomfortable, in: DÖW, year book 1991, p. 44; here from a report in the communications of the DÖW, volume 193, October 2007, pp. 1–5, here p. 3.
  21. ↑ 4th Braunauer Zeitgeschichte-Tage 1995. Necessary betrayal. The Franz Jägerstätter case. September 22 to 24, 1995. "Fulfillment of duty", desertion, conscientious objection during World War II. on braunau.at.
  22. ^ Reinhard Moos: The rehabilitation of Franz Jägerstätter by the Berlin Regional Court. In: New archive for the history of the Diocese of Linz. Volume 12, Issue 1, Linz 1998/99, p. 26, entire article p. 26–30, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  23. ^ Memorial service for Jägerstätter murdered by the National Socialists. In: berlin.de, August 9, 2013.
  24. ↑ Stolperstein reminds of the conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter - also in Austria now commemorative plaques for the victims of the Nazi regime ( Memento of July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: epv.de, August 7, 2006.
  25. ^ Franz-Jägerstätter-Heim - LinzWiki. Retrieved December 22, 2019 .
  26. ^ Diocese of Linz: student dormitory and cafeteria. Diocese of Linz, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
  27. ^ Franziska Jägerstätter. New Franz and Franziska Jägerstätter room in the Cardinal König Haus in Vienna. In: dioezese-linz.at.
  28. ^ ORF Upper Austria: Peace Bell for Family Church , accessed on November 16, 2014.
  29. ↑ To the extreme - and yet never alone , in: Der Standard , Vienna, January 24, 2020, p. 25
  30. ↑ Josef Wallner: Is the Jägerstätter relic real? In: kirchenzeitung.at. November 28, 2007, accessed May 12, 2020 .
  31. ^ Upper Austria: New altar with Jägerstätter relics. In: orf.at. May 18, 2016, accessed May 12, 2020 .
  32. ↑ Provincial ceremony "90 Years of Upper Austria" in the large house of the Landestheater in Linz ( Memento from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  33. ^ Benedictus XVI .: Litterae Apostolicae "Omnia possideo". In: AAS 7 (2008), p. 430.
  34. ^ ORF: Festliches Hochamt in Linz , accessed on November 16, 2014.
  35. ↑ orf.at: New Jägerstätter Institute in Linz. Article dated October 25, 2017, accessed October 25, 2017.
  36. ↑ Peter Schierl and Lothar Riedl: Jägerstätter-Film: One of us. Diocese of Linz, May 21, 2015, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Jägerstätter, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huber, Franz (before adoption)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conscientious objector in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Radegund , Upper Austria
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1943
Place of death Brandenburg on the Havel