Johannes Albrecht
Robert Johannes Albrecht SJ (born April 18, 1907 in Dingelstädt im Eichsfeld , † September 18, 1943 in the Brandenburg-Görden prison ) was a Roman Catholic friar who died during the National Socialist dictatorship on August 5, 1943 in Berlin due to a secret court martial was sentenced to death.
Life
Johannes Albrecht was born on April 18, 1907, the son of a hotel owner in the Giant Mountains . After elementary school, he attended high school in Hirschberg and completed a commercial apprenticeship after the family moved to Breslau . From 1931 he worked as an interpreter in the German embassy in Prague . There he came into contact with the Jesuit order and decided to join the order in January 1933. He went through the two-year novitiate in Beneschau , Mariaschein and Velehrad . Albrecht then studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Rome and Gallarate and took his religious vows in Mittelsteine on February 2, 1936 , and renewed them in January 1942. However, he was no longer ordained as he was drafted into the armed forces in 1941.
Arrest and death
In 1941 Albrecht was employed as a Wehrmacht interpreter in Prague and later in the Dabendorf prisoner of war camp. Although he was forbidden under punishment, he made himself available to the Czech prisoners of war as well as the soldiers stationed there as a pastor . After informants reported about his attitude against the Hitler regime and its attacks on foreign peoples, he was arrested on May 19, 1942. He was taken to Berlin-Tegel prison without disclosing the reasons for his arrest. From August 5, 1943, he stood before the court martial in Berlin and was sentenced to death. His family's requests for clemency were unsuccessful. Johannes Albrecht was transferred to the Brandenburg-Görden prison and executed there on September 18, 1943. On September 22, 1943, the Jesuits were able to bury him in Breslau after a requiem . The court martial documents relating to the death sentence were not disclosed even after the war.
literature
- Ulrich von Hehl : priest under Hitler's terror. A biographical and statistical survey, Volume 2 . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 1996, ISBN 3-506-79839-1 .
- Benedicta Maria Kempner : Priest before Hitler's tribunals . Bertelsmann, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-570-12292-1 , pp. 14th f . (unchanged reprint of the 2nd edition from 1967).
- Helmut Moll (Hrsg.): Witnesses for Christ - The German Martyrology of the 20th Century . Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-506-75778-4 , pp. 779 f .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Benedicta Maria Kempner: Priest before Hitler's tribunals . Bertelsmann, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-570-12292-1 , pp. 14th f . (unchanged reprint of the 2nd edition from 1967).
- ↑ Vincent A. Lapomarda: The Jesuits and the Third Reich . Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston 1989, ISBN 0-88946-828-1 , p. 91.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Albrecht, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catholic friar, executed in 1943 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dingelstädt |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1943 |
| Place of death | Brandenburg-Görden |