Gerhard Scherer
Gerhard (Michael) Scherer (born March 15, 1892 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz , † August 26, 1944 in Brieg ) was a German Cistercian and a victim of National Socialism .
Life
After graduating from high school in Eichstätt, Scherer took part in the First World War as a volunteer, became an officer candidate and received several awards. He spent the last months of the war in a hospital in Küstrin . As a trained farmer, he entered the Seligenporten monastery in 1930 (then still in Bronnbach ) and was ordained a priest in 1934.
In 1938 he was sent to the Stams Abbey in Tyrol , where he was arrested by the Gestapo after the monastery was dissolved by the National Socialist authorities in July 1939 . After his release, he took over pastoral care in a branch of the Lauban Magdalen convent in Saxon-Haugsdorf (Nawojów Łużycki). There he was arrested on Good Friday 1943 and sentenced in August to a prison sentence by a special court in Görlitz , which was to be served in Brieg. There he died on August 26, 1944 under unknown circumstances.
literature
- Helmut Moll (ed.): Witnesses for Christ. The German Martyrology of the 20th Century , Volume 2. Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, pp. 880–883.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pater Gerhard (Michael) Scherer OC is on the website of the Eichstätter Diezösaneschichtsverein (accessed on February 5, 2020)
Web links
- Gerhard Scherer OCist in the Biographia Cisterciensis , version of March 12, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scherer, Gerhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scherer, Gerhard Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Cistercians, victims of National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 1944 |
| Place of death | Brieg |