Helmut Augustin

Helmut Hugo Alfred Augustin (born January 30, 1912 in Leipzig ; † December 7, 1952 in Merseburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor , opponent of the Nazi regime and prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp .

Life

Augustin gained after visiting the people - the and a secondary school matriculation and studied Protestant theology . After his ordination he worked as a pastor in Störmthal near Leipzig. He joined the Confessing Church (BK) and attracted the attention of the Gestapo through expressions critical of the regime. He was then arrested and sentenced to prison , which he served in Leipzig. After the end of his imprisonment, he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp on January 2, 1942, and was given prisoner number 28,982. In Dachau, he was as subject to the malaria -Station the Munich epidemiologist Claus Schilling transferred, the medical of thousands of prisoners experiments conducted in which many died. Augustine survived this torment and was released from the concentration camp on April 3, 1945 in connection with the release of numerous pastors.

Augustin went back to Saxony and took over the pastorate of Altenhain near Grimma . In July 1945 he gave the “Grimmaer Nachrichten” an interview in which he reported on the cruelty and inhumanity in the concentration camp. In 1950 he moved to the service of the Church Province of Saxony and became pastor to St. Matthew and Matthias zu Schnellroda and St. Magnus in Albersroda . He died at the age of only 40 as a result of the health problems he had suffered in the concentration camp.

Helmut Augustin was married to Anneliese Petermann and was the father of two sons and a daughter.

publication

Morning u. Evening prayers , Bad Blankenburg (Thuringian Forest): Harfe-Verl. u. Printing house, [1948]

Individual evidence

↑ Grimma News. Ordinance sheet of all authorities for the district of Grimma, No. 10 of July 25, 1945
^ Daniel Ulrich: Pastor in: St. Matthäus and Matthias or St. Magnus . Evangelical Parish Langeneichstädt and Evangelical Church Community Schnellroda-Albersroda, January 18, 2016, accessed September 2, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Augustin, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Augustin, Helmut Hugo Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Protestant clergyman and member of the Confessing Church
DATE OF BIRTH	January 30, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	7th December 1952
Place of death	Merseburg

[1] Grimma News. Ordinance sheet of all authorities for the district of Grimma, No. 10 of July 25, 1945

[2] Daniel Ulrich: Pastor in: St. Matthäus and Matthias or St. Magnus . Evangelical Parish Langeneichstädt and Evangelical Church Community Schnellroda-Albersroda, January 18, 2016, accessed September 2, 2016.