Germogen (Maksimov)

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The Croatian leader Ante Pavelić in conversation with the Metropolitan Germogen (left).

Germogen ( bourgeois Grigori Ivanovich Maximov, Russian Григорий Иванович Максимов , transliterated Grigory Ivanovich Maksimov, Croatian Maksimović * 10. January 1861 in the stanitsa Nagawskaja in Novocherkassk , Don Oblast , Russian Empire ; † thirtieth June 1945 in Zagreb , Yugoslavia ) was a Russian Orthodox priest and Metropolitan of the Croatian Orthodox Church .

Life

Germogen was in 1861 in the then more than 3,000 inhabitants Donkosaken -site Nagawskaja on the right bank of the Don was born. In 1886 he graduated from the " Kazan Spiritual Academy " of the Russian Orthodox Church . In 1897 he was ordained a priest and became a religion teacher. In 1909 he was ordained a monk and a year later he received the episcopal ordination and became Vicar Bishop of Rostov-on-Don . In 1917/18 he was a member of the provincial council . After the Russian Revolution , he was under house arrest in 1918 and went underground after his release. In 1919 he emigrated from Russia. From 1922 to 1929 he was the head of the Russian Orthodox communities in Greece . In 1929 he took on the same function in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia .

In 1942, when Germogen was staying in the Novo Hopovo Orthodox monastery in Fruška Gora ( Vojvodina ), he was appointed Metropolitan of the Croatian Orthodox Church in the Independent State of Croatia . Germogen later stated that he had only threatened his appointment because otherwise the Orthodox Serbs would have been persecuted.

For his collaboration with the Ustasha -State he was on 29 June 1945 by a military court of the communist Tito's partisans in the loss of all civil rights, (Stadtkommandantur Zagreb) confiscation of property and death by firing squad condemned and the following day executed .

swell

  • Michail Shkarovskij: The Church Policy of the Third Reich towards the Orthodox Churches in Eastern Europe (1939-1945) . Lit Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-8258-6615-0 , pp. 91 ff. and 269 .
  • Michael Portmann: Communist accounting for war criminals, collaborators, “enemies of the people” and “traitors” in Yugoslavia during the Second World War and immediately afterwards (1943-1950) . GRIN, 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-45990-7 , pp. 129 (diploma thesis).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter von Köppen : Statistical trip to the land of the Donian Cossacks through the governorates of Tula, Orel and Voronesh in 1850 . Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 1852, p. 161.
personal data
SURNAME Germogen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maksimov, Grigorij Ivanovič; Maksimović, Grigorij Ivanovič; Hermogen; Максимов, Григорий Иванович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian Orthodox priest and metropolitan
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Staniza Nagawskaja near Novocherkassk , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1945
Place of death Zagreb