Friedrich Hemmer

Friedrich Hemmer (born July 13, 1903 in Grombach ; † November 10, 1993 in Külsheim - Eiersheim ) was a German Catholic clergyman. At the time of National Socialism he campaigned for Polish prisoners of war and was sent to the Dachau concentration camp for this . In 1989 he was made an honorary citizen of Külsheim.

Life

He came from an old family in Grombach, who, with Johann Jakob Hemmer (1752-1807), had already provided the local Catholic pastor and two local councils in the 19th century. His parents were the farmer August Hemmer (1874–1961) and Rosa born. Dick (1874-1942). After studying Catholic theology in Freiburg , he was on 10 March 1929 in St. Peter in the Black Forest for priests ordained . Then he was chaplain in Obrigheim , Wertheim , Weilersbach, Aglasterhausen and Mörsch . In 1938 he became parish administrator in Röhrenbach near Überlingen . There he sat down after the outbreak of the Second World War for Polish prisoners of war one, by their behavior praised and illegally at Mass was to attend. On January 1, 1940, he was arrested by the Gestapo and then served a four-month prison sentence in Constance . Subsequently, he was rejected as intolerable by the patron saint of Röhrenbach , the Prince of Fürstenberg , and in October 1940 he was transferred to Wiesenbach as parish administrator , where he was arrested again on August 20, 1941 for the same reason. From October 8, 1941 to February 11, 1942, he was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp in Priest Block 26 . In 1964 he became pastor in Eiersheim near Külsheim . In 1978 he resigned for health reasons in retirement . The city of Külsheim made him an honorary citizen in 1989.

literature

• Friedrich Hemmer: Report of Pastor Friedrich Hemmer , in: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv 90, 1970, pp. 293-296 (report on his imprisonment) ( digitized version ).
• Gudrun Graipel, Arnold Scheuerbrandt: Hemmer, Friedrich , in: Grunbach uff dem Creychgöw , Bad Rappenau 2010, p. 298.