Friedrich Karas
Friedrich Karas (born July 29, 1895 in Vienna , Austria ; † March 28, 1942 in the Nazi killing center Hartheim in Upper Austria ) was an Austrian Catholic priest from the Archdiocese of Vienna and an opponent of the Nazi regime . He was persecuted and murdered by the National Socialists .
Life
Friedrich Karas was ordained a priest in 1939. Then he was chaplain in Gaubitsch and Petronell , then rector in Mayerling .
After Austria was "annexed" to the Third Reich by the National Socialists , chaplain Friedrich Karas was arrested for the first time in 1940 and sentenced to three months' imprisonment for alleged "immorality". He was arrested again in June 1941 and finally imprisoned in August 1941 in the Bavarian concentration camp Dachau (Dachau concentration camp), where he was initially housed in the so-called “ pastor's block ”.
Friedrich Karas was the first priest among the sick prisoners who had been segregated in the invalids 'block of the Dachau concentration camp at the beginning of 1942 , who was sorted out as "unworthy of living" as part of the National Socialists' "euthanasia" program and who was transported away in February 1942 as part of the so-called " Aktion 14f13 ". He was taken to the Hartheim Nazi killing facility in Hartheim Castle, which was closest to the Dachau concentration camp, near Alkoven near Linz in Upper Austria, where he was "gassed" .
literature
- On the 40th anniversary of the death of the defender of life Galen and two Nazi victims, chaplain Franz Steurer, chaplain Friedrich Karas Ed .: Wiener Kath. Akad. Zsgest. by Franz Loidl . Wiener Kath. Akad., Vienna 1987. (Miscellanea / Wiener Katholische Akademie, Working Group for Church History and Vienna Diocesan History; Series 3, No. 164), IDN: 900126957.
- Hermann Scheipers : A tightrope walk. Priest under two dictatorships. St. Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-7462-1221-9 .
Web links
- Photos and data of Friedrich Karas from the ID card index of the Gestapo Vienna ( Memento from June 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Learning and memorial site Hartheim Castle - Internet presence of today's memorial in Hartheim Castle
Individual evidence
- ^ Sales Hess: Dachau - A world without God : Sebaldus-Verlag, Nuremberg 1946.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karas, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | catholic priest |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1942 |
| Place of death | Nazi killing center Hartheim , Upper Austria |