Franziskus Maria Stratmann

Franziskus Maria Stratmann (born September 8, 1883 in Solingen ; † May 13, 1971 in Hochdahl ), Dominican , was an important theoretician of the Catholic peace movement and is considered a representative of the “ just war pacifists ”.

Life

In his rejection of modern war , Stratmann relied primarily on the conditions for waging a just war and came to the conclusion that, in view of the modern reality of war, no war could be justified theologically .

From 1914 to 1923 he was a student chaplain in Berlin.

Franziskus Maria Stratmann openly opposed National Socialism. On April 10, 1933 he wrote to the Archbishop of Munich, Michael Faulhaber : “Nobody protests effectively against this indescribable German and Christian disgrace. Even priests feel their anti-Semitic instincts are satisfied by this sinful activity. ”But the German episcopate remained silent. Stratmann was taken into protective custody in 1933. In 1937 Stratmann was one of the signatories of the memorandum The Church of Christ and the Jewish Question , which turned against the anti-Semitism of the National Socialists and wanted - in vain - to get the Pope and other church dignitaries to officially protest against the persecution of the Jews in Germany.

In February 2007 , a commemorative plaque for the clergy was inaugurated in Erkrath-Hochdahl by the Düsseldorf Dominican Father Elias H. Füllenbach and the deputy mayor Regina Wedding at the former Dominican convent, where Stratmann spent the last years of his life, and a path named after him.

Works

World Church and World Peace, Catholic Thoughts on the War and Peace Problem . Haas & Grabherr, Augsburg 1924.
In exile. Diary pages 1940 to 1947 . European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1962.

literature

Dieter Riesenberger : Stratmann, Franziskus Maria. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 11, Bautz, Herzberg 1996, ISBN 3-88309-064-6 , Sp. 20-23. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Klaus Kreppel : In exile. In memory of Father Franziskus Stratmann. In: Critical Catholicism . Vol. 5 (1971), H. 7, p. 3.
Elias H. Füllenbach : On the history of the order in the 19th and 20th centuries , in: More than black and white. 800 years of the Dominican Order , ed. from dems. Pustet Verlag. Regensburg 2016, pp. 147–165.

Web links

Literature by and about Franziskus Maria Stratmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Quoted by Rudolf Neumaier: Walking, preaching at eye level. The Dominicans exhibit their history in Regensburg. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 15, 2016, p. 13.
↑ Elias H. Füllenbach: The Church of Christ and the Jewish Question (1937). In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Hostility to Jews in the past and present. Vol. 6: Publications. De Gruyter Saur, Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 400–403.
↑ http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/mettmann/ Resistance-fuer-den-frieden-aid- 1.883224

personal data
SURNAME	Stratmann, Franziskus Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Roman Catholic theologian and peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 8, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Solingen
DATE OF DEATH	May 13, 1971
Place of death	Hochdahl

[1] Quoted by Rudolf Neumaier: Walking, preaching at eye level. The Dominicans exhibit their history in Regensburg. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 15, 2016, p. 13.

[2] Elias H. Füllenbach: The Church of Christ and the Jewish Question (1937). In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Hostility to Jews in the past and present. Vol. 6: Publications. De Gruyter Saur, Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 400–403.

[3] ttp://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/mettmann/ Resistance-fuer-den-frieden-aid- 1.883224