Herbert Simoleit

Herbert Simoleit (born May 22, 1908 in Berlin ; † November 13, 1944 in Halle ) was a German Roman Catholic priest , resistance fighter against National Socialism and a martyr .

Life

After a childhood in economic hardship, Herbert Simoleit attended the seminary in Fulda at the age of 25 and was ordained a priest in 1939. He then worked as a chaplain, first in Greifswald , then from 1941 in Stettin . He was spied on by the Gestapo there with others during intimate conversations in which they had openly expressed their opinion about the Nazi regime and was then arrested on the night of February 4 to 5, 1943 (“Stettin case”).

He was executed on November 13, 1944 with Provikar Carl Lampert and Father Friedrich Lorenz on the grounds: " Decomposition of the military and radio crimes " and, in one case, "Enemy favor" .

Commemoration

Memorial plaque of the martyrs of the Nazi era in the crypt of St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin-Mitte

Memorial in the cathedral cemetery in Reinickendorf

• Memorial at the cathedral cemetery Sankt-Hedwig in Berlin-Reinickendorf
• Memorial plaques in St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin-Mitte remind of his fate
• Memorial on the south cemetery in Halle (Saale) and at the Holy Cross Church in Halle
• The Catholic Church accepted chaplain Herbert Simoleit in 1999 as a witness of faith in the martyrology of the 20th century .

literature

• Heinz Kühn: martyrs of the diocese of Berlin. Klausener, Lichtenberg, Lampert, Lorenz, Simoleit, Mandrella, Hirsch, Wachsmann, Metzger, Schäfer, Willimsky, Lenzel, Froehlich . More publishing house, Berlin 1952.
• Benedicta Maria Kempner : Priest before Hitler's tribunals . Bertelsmann, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-570-12292-1 (first edition: Rütten & Loening, 1966).

• Helmut Moll , (Ed. On behalf of the German Bishops' Conference): Witnesses for Christ. The German martyrology of the 20th century. Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , Volume I, pp. 138-141.

Web links

Commons : Herbert Simoleit  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center
• Entry at the workplace for the German martyrology of the 20th century

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berlin honors personalities
2. ↑ clergymen (south cemetery). ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Halle im Bild.