Jakob Anton Ziegler

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Jakob Anton Ziegler (born June 15, 1893 in Nalbach ; † May 12, 1944 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a German Catholic pastor and martyr priest of the Trier diocese .

Life

Memorial plaque for pastor Jakob Ziegler at the war memorial chapel in Cochem-Cond

Jakob Anton Ziegler was born the son of the miner Bernhard Ziegler and his wife Katharina Klein and was baptized on June 18, 1893 in the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Nalbach. His confirmation took place on October 27, 1907 in the Jesuit Church in Trier. He completed his high school as a Konvikt student at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Trier on March 17, 1914 with the Abitur.

From 1914 on he studied philosophy and theology at the Episcopal Seminary in Trier. In the wake of the First World War , Ziegler was called up for military service and military service on January 5, 1915 and was used in the artillery and medical service in Belgium, France and Russia. He was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class for his services . After the war he continued his studies from 1918 to 1922 and was ordained a priest on August 13, 1922 in Trier.

The old church tower St. Remaclus and the Zehnthaus on Pastor-Ziegler-Platz in Cond

On August 19, 1922 he took up his first position as chaplain in the parishes of Liebfrauen and St. Laurentius in Trier, which he held until May 1931. On November 15, 1928 he passed the parish exam with distinction. On March 19, 1931, Ziegler was appointed pastor of Langsur an der Sauer . He held the office until 1938.

Ziegler took a public position against the emerging National Socialism and was heavily involved in Catholic youth work in this regard. From 1931 he was in the opposing focus of local and regional National Socialists. On December 8, 1938, Ziegler was expelled from the Trier administrative district by the National Socialist Secret State Police (Gestapo). The diocese of Trier therefore transferred Ziegler as pastor of Cond on the Moselle on December 30, 1938 . Here he continued his public resistance against the National Socialists. The civil parishes of Langsur and Cond legally enforced the payments of additional state funds for his parish activities.

Registration card from Jakob Anton Ziegler as a prisoner in the National Socialist concentration camp Dachau
Death certificate of Jakob Anton Ziegler as a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp Dachau

On August 8, 1941, Ziegler was arrested by the Gestapo and taken to the state prison in Koblenz. With effect from November 26, 1941, Ziegler was arrested for sedition. On December 12, 1941, he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp. Ziegler died here as a result of his imprisonment in the camp on May 12, 1944. He was burned on May 16, 1944 in Dachau and his ashes poured into a mass grave.

Honors

  • On May 12, 1994 in Cond on the Moselle, the square by the old church tower was named after Jakob Anton Ziegler (Jakob-Ziegler-Platz). On the Romanesque church tower and in the courtyard of the new parish church, memorial plaques remind of Ziegler.
  • On May 12, 1999, the Jakob-Ziegler-House was inaugurated in Nalbach, Ziegler's birthplace.
  • In 1999 Jakob Ziegler was accepted into the German martyrology of the 20th century as a witness of faith.
  • As part of the “ Stumbling Stones ” campaign by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig, a paving stone was laid for Ziegler on July 1, 2005 in Trier's Jesuitenstrasse.
  • In 2006 a commemorative plaque was attached to the parish church of Langsur an der Sauer for Ziegler.
  • In Nalbach, the Pastor-Jakob-Ziegler-Platz was named after Ziegler in 1994 and the Jakob-Ziegler-Weg in 2000.

literature

  • Alfons Friderichs (ed.): Personalities of the Cochem-Zell district. Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 395.
  • Helmut Moll (publisher on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference), witnesses for Christ. The German Martyrology of the 20th Century , Paderborn 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, pp. 684–686.
  • Maurus Münch: Among 2579 priests in Dachau, Pastor Jakob Ziegler of Cochem-Cond. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1988, pp. 74-75.
  • Alfred Geller: Parish life in the Nazi era. Jakob Ziegler. In: ders: The parish of St. Remaclus from 1815 until today. In: Life on the River. Cond on the Moselle past and present. Edited by the village community pump festival Cochem-Cond. M. Heinz Bremm-Verlag, Cochem 2010, ISBN 978-3-927839-38-0 , pp. 340-350.
  • Sandra Ost :  Ziegler, Jakob Anton. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 24, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-247-9 , Sp. 1582-1586.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Witnesses for Christ. The German Martyrology of the 20th Century , ed. by Helmut Moll on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference, Vol. 1 (2006), Paderborn a. a. Pp. 581-583.
  2. ↑ a b Jakob Anton Ziegler ( Memento from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on Saarland biographies
personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Jakob Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic pastor and martyr priest of the Diocese of Trier
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Nalbach
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1944
Place of death Dachau concentration camp