Georg Angermaier

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Georg Angermaier (born January 6, 1913 in Würzburg , † March 27, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer , political scientist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Angermaier was born as the son of the shoemaker Johann Georg Angermaier and his wife Maria Katharina in Würzburg. From 1925 to 1932 he attended the Neue Gymnasium and the Episcopal boys' seminar Kilianeum in Würzburg. Angermaier then studied philosophy and law at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In 1937 he received his doctorate in law and in 1938 in political science and economics . During the time of his studies he became a member of the Catholic student union Normannia Würzburg in the KV .

In 1940 he married Antonia Binz and had four children with her.

Resistance to National Socialism

Angermaier has worked as a representative of the laity in the Committee for Religious Affairs since its foundation in 1941 together with Fathers Lothar König SJ , Odilo Braun OP , Augustin Rösch SJ , Laurentius Siemer OP , as well as some members of the Fulda Bishops' Conference such as Konrad Graf von Preysing and Johann Baptist Dietz , the committee was set up as a reaction to the National Socialist monastery tower.

In 1942 he wrote state and constitutional plans in the area around the Kreisau district .

death

On March 27, 1945, Angermaier was killed in a traffic accident in which an SS car was involved in Berlin. The course of the accident was never clarified.

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