Georg Maus

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Georg Maus (born June 5, 1888 in Bottendorf , † February 16, 1945 in Hochstadt near Lichtenfels ) was a German educator , member of the Confessing Church and Christian resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Maus came from the family of a Protestant pastor from the church of Schaumburg-Lippe . After obtaining his university entrance qualification , he studied Protestant theology and linguistics at the University of Marburg . He resigned after his promotion to Doctor of Philosophy in the higher teaching and taught at various schools in the area of Wetzlar , in Benrath , Dusseldorf and Neuss . He found a permanent job in Düsseldorf, but still had to teach at various schools in the city. After he was bombed out in 1943 , he was transferred to the Göttenbach grammar school in Idar-Oberstein .

Although he belonged to the Nazi teachers ' association, he had been a member of the Confessing Church since it was founded. The first meeting of the BK Brotherhood Council took place in his Benrath apartment . He also made contact with faith-based teachers and spoke publicly at lectures that not only the NSDAP and the German Christians should not have any influence on the church, but also adhered to his mandate to hold religious instruction at his school. When this was partially removed from the curriculum , he gave alternative lessons on his own. In 1939 he resigned from the Nazi teachers' association.

On May 16, 1944, Maus was taken into “ protective custody ” in Koblenz and then charged with “ decomposing military strength ” before the People's Court and sentenced to two years in prison . In a bomb attack, he was wounded and the prison hospital of Berlin-Moabit transferred. Shortly before the Red Army took the Reich capital , he was sent on a prison train to the Dachau concentration camp . Georg Maus died on this train without any food or water. As a hungry corpse, he was thrown from the train in Hochstadt near Lichtenfels. After the body lay there for several days, it was buried in the nearby Flossenbürg concentration camp .

Honor

  • The Evangelical Church in Germany commemorates Georg Maus with a day of remembrance in the Evangelical Name Calendar on February 15 .
  • In 1975, at the suggestion of Pastor Gustav Hammann (1922–1978), the glass painter Erhardt Klonk created a mural of Saint George with the dragon in the parsonage of Bottendorf , which symbolically and the dates of his life are intended to keep the memory of Georg Maus in mind.
  • In Idar-Oberstein, a stumbling stone in front of the house at Hauptstrasse 148 reminds of Georg Maus.
  • In Idar-Oberstein the street on which the former school building of the Göttenbach-Gymnasium is located is named after Georg Maus; The city administration has its seat in the building (Schillerschule) today.
  • There is a Georg-Maus-Strasse in Fischbach (Idar-Oberstein).

Varia

The city administration of Idar-Oberstein is now housed in the former Schiller School and the former building of the Göttenbach Gymnasium. The street belonging to it was renamed "Georg-Maus-Straße" in memory of Maus.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Georg Maus in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
  2. ↑ War cemetery in Flossenbürg, Block L Row 1B Grave 4950 (Source: Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge eV)
  3. ↑ http://www.hna.de/nachrichten/kreis-waldeck-frankenberg/frankenberg/kirche-deutschland-gedenken-georg-maus-628805.html Retrieved July 2, 2011
  4. ↑ Press release of the city of Idar-Oberstein from October 28, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Mouse, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant educator and member of the Confessing Church
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Bottendorf
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1945
Place of death Hochstadt am Main