Friedrich Murawski

Friedrich Murawski (born March 17, 1898 in Cologne , † 1945 ) was a Roman Catholic priest and National Socialist . From 1941 to 1943 he was head of the department for political churches in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) .

Life

After studying theology and philosophy, Murawski was ordained a priest in Paderborn in 1921 and was ordained a priest in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1924 with a speculative-theological investigation into the secret of the election to Dr. theol. PhD . In 1933 Murawski joined the NSDAP (membership number 3.215.779) and SA and appeared as a speaker at party events . He worked until 1934 as a study assessor and chaplain at the grammar school in Meppen (Ems). Here he also took over the post of deputy district training leader of the NSDAP and the standard training office of SA 229.

Wilhelm Berning , the Bishop of Osnabrück, who had opposed the fanatical priest's appointment at the grammar school, relieved him of his spiritual offices in 1934 after he had not complied with his request to leave the Nazi organizations. From 1936 he worked in the security service of the Reichsführer SS , from 1941 to 1943 as head of Section VII B2 (Political Church) in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) with the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer . On behalf of Franz Alfred Six , the head of the office responsible for “research on opponents” at the RSHA, Murawski was one of the people responsible for building a “Jewish library”. After a large number of monasteries had been dissolved by the Gestapo in the so-called "church storm", Murawski selected extensive book holdings for the church library of the RSHA and for the library of the SD leadership school in Berlin-Charlottenburg between March and September 1941 .

Murawski was an employee of the research unit "Special Hexen Order" (H-Special order) established by Himmler at the Office VII Reich Security Main Office (RSHA).

In addition, Murawski, according to the historian Wolfgang Dierker, was one of the most productive authors on the ideological opponents of National Socialism as the church political advisor of the RSHA ; Dierker names among other things his book Das Gott , published in 1940 . Outline of a worldview from Germanic roots . Murawski's book continued to be published after the war, most recently in 1997 by the book service of the right-wing extremist species community - Germanic faith community for a way of life in keeping with the nature .

Because of his writing Jesus the Nazarene , a disciplinary procedure was initiated against Murawski on the basis of allegations of plagiarism and philosemitic tendencies. He was then expelled from the SS and lost his post in the Reich Security Main Office . Murawski 1,945 committed suicide .

After the end of the war , Murawski's writings from the Nazi era (all published by Berlin-based Fritsch-Verlag) The political church and its biblical "documents" (1938), The Emperor from the Beyond, Images of the Essence and Work of Yahweh and his Church (1939) , Jesus the Nazarene, the King of the Jews (1940) and Das Gott, Outline of a Weltanschauung from Germanic roots (1940) as well as the edition of Nietzsche's Der Antichrist (1940) in the Soviet zone of occupation placed on the list of literature to be excluded. In the German Democratic Republic , this list was followed by his military spirit and Christianity (1940).

Fonts (selection)

• The secret of election. A speculative theological investigation . Schöningh, Paderborn 1924 (Zugl .: Freiburg i. B., Theol. Diss., 1924)
• The Jews with the Church Fathers and Scholastics. A sketch of church history as a contribution to the fight against anti-Semitism . CA Schwetschke & Son, Berlin 1925
• The work of the Holy Spirit in the human heart . Mission printing company Steyl, Kaldenkirchen 1925
• Clear terms in piety. Dictionary of Spiritual Life. Mission printing shop Steyl, Kaldenkirchen im Rhld. 1925
• Christ and the man. Benziger, Einsiedeln et al. 1926
• Guide to god. A selection from Greek church writers in free translation . Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1926
• Religious instruction at vocational schools. A curriculum with sketches for the individual topics . Schöningh, Paderborn 1927
• God's rule in nature and grace. Conversations about the reality of divine grace . Benziger, Einsiedeln 1927
• Ascetic theology. A systematic floor plan . Verlag J. Kösel & F. Pustet, Munich 1928
• Catholic or comradeship marriage? . Manz, Regensburg 1931
• The political church and its biblical records . Theodor Fritsch, Berlin 1938
• The Emperor from the Beyond: Images of the nature and work of Yahweh and his Church , Theodor Fritsch, Berlin 1939
• Defensive spirit and Christianity . Fritsch, Berlin 1940
• Friedrich Nietzsche: The Antichrist - edited in selection . Theodor Fritsch, Berlin 1940 2nd edition.
• Jesus the Nazarene, the King of the Jews. A representation based on the sources . Fritsch, Berlin 1940
• That god. Outline of a worldview from Germanic roots . Fritsch, Berlin 1940; 6th - 10th thousand, Faks.-Verl., Bremen 1981 ( DNB certificate ); 6th edition, Die Artgemeinschaft, Hamburg 1997 ( DNB certificate )

literature

• Wolfgang Dierker: Himmler's religious warrior . The SS Security Service and its Religious Policy 1933–1941 . [= Publications of the Commission for Contemporary History. Row B: Research. Vol. 92]. Schöningh, Paderborn 2002, ISBN 3-506-79997-5 (Zugl .: Bonn, Univ., Diss., 2000). With short biography, p. 556.

Web links

• Werner Schroeder: The libraries of the RSHA . Lecture in Weimar September 11, 2003 (PDF, 90 KiB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Schröder: The libraries of the RSHA: Structure and whereabouts (PDF; 92 kB). Weimar 2003, p. 5.
2. ↑ Leszczynska, Katarzyna: Witches and Teutons: The Interest of National Socialism in the history of witch hunt. transscript Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, p. 66, ISBN 978-3-8376-1169-4
3. ↑ Wolfgang Dierker: Himmler's religious warriors . The SS Security Service and its Religious Policy 1933–1941 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2002, p. 223.
4. ^ Friedrich Zipfel : Church struggle in Germany 1933-1945: Religious persecution and self-assertion of the churches in the National Socialist era. De Gruyter, Berlin 1965, p. 486, fn. 85; Wolfgang Dierker: Himmler's religious warrior . The SS Security Service and its Religious Policy 1933–1941 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2002, p. 93 u. P. 556.
5. ↑ Wolfgang Dierker: Himmler's religious warriors . The SS Security Service and its Religious Policy 1933–1941 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2002, p. 556.
6. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of literature to be sorted out. 1946, letter M, pp. 264-293.
7. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of literature to be sorted out. 1948, letter M, pp. 186-206.
8. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of literature to be sorted out. 1948, letter N, pp. 206-211.
9. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of literature to be sorted out. 1953, letter M, pp. 127-139.