Johann Schroffner

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Johann Schroffner as a young priest

Johann (Baptist) Schroffner (born May 10, 1891 in Thalgau (Austria); † April 14, 1940 in Buchenwald concentration camp ) was an Austrian priest , supporter of a Catholic corporate state and resistance fighter against the Nazi state .

Life

Johann Schroffner graduated from the seminary in Salzburg after completing his high school diploma . He was ordained a priest in 1915. Afterwards he was employed as a cooperator in some Salzburg and Tyrolean parishes. After disagreements with his superiors, he was transferred to the town of Oberndorf near Kitzbühel as a pastor in 1936 . He was a member of the “ Fatherland Front ” and an ardent supporter of the Catholic corporate state under Dollfuss . As a result, he let himself be carried away to disrespectful remarks about German politicians after the annexation of Austria . Thereupon he was arrested by the Gestapo on August 2, 1939 and imprisoned for a week in the Innsbruck police prison. From there he was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp , where he came to the notorious punishment company . From Dachau he was later sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp . Here he was brought to the bunker, where he was personally cruelly abused by SS-Hauptscharführer Martin Sommer . From his injuries and a gasoline - injection he suffered an agonizing death.

memory

  • In 2009 a memorial plaque for four victims of the Nazi dictatorship was unveiled in Salzburg, which also contains his name.
  • His urn was buried in his birthplace Thalgau . He is commemorated on a memorial stone at the National Socialist Victims Memorial there.

literature

  • Gisela Hormayr : The future will shed a different light on our death: Victims of the Catholic-conservative resistance in Tyrol 1938–1945 , Innsbruck 2015, ISBN 978-3-7065-5466-4
  • Schreiber, Horst and Grüner, Christopher (editor): Those who died for the freedom of Austria: The liberation monument in Innsbruck. Processes of remembering , Innsbruck 2016, ISBN 978-3-7030-0923-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Johann Schroffner in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  2. ↑ https://www.eduard-wallnoefer-platz.at/biografie/Johann+Schroffner/93
personal data
SURNAME Schroffner, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schroffner, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian priest
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Thalgau , Upper Austria
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1940
Place of death Buchenwald concentration camp