Josef Mayr-Nusser

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Memorial plaque for Josef Mayr-Nusser in house Lichtenstern 1–7 on the Renon
Memorial plaque on the house Lichtenstern 1–7 on the Ritten

Josef Mayr-Nusser (born December 27, 1910 in Bozen ; † February 24, 1945 near Erlangen ) was a Catholic layman who fell victim to National Socialism after refusing to take the so-called Fuehrereid . He is regarded as the South Tyrolean leading figure in the resistance against the Nazi injustice rule and is an honorary citizen of his hometown. He was beatified as a martyr on March 18, 2017 .

Life

Josef Mayr was born in 1910 on the Nusserhof on the outskirts of Bozen. His father died when he was only five years old. His mother raised her two sons alone during the economically difficult years. Since there was insufficient financial means for the education of both brothers, Josef decided not to attend grammar school and then study and became a commercial clerk at the Eccel company in Bolzano. Raised in a pious environment, Mayr-Nusser joined the young Catholic men of the Archdiocese of Trento and was soon elected their chairman. The close relationship with Josef Ferrari began at that time .

After the option agreement , Mayr-Nusser decided to stay on December 27, 1939, his 29th birthday, and joined the Andreas Hofer Bund , a South Tyrolean resistance group.

On May 26, 1942, he married Hildegard Straub (1907–1998) in Bozen in the former St. Nicholas Church . Their son Albert Mayr was born in 1943 and works as a composer in Florence and Bolzano.

After the invasion of the German armed forces and the establishment of the operational zone for the foothills of the Alps , Mayr-Nusser was drafted into the German military in 1944 (the Germany optants had previously been obliged to do military service and military service). He was assigned to the Waffen SS . On October 4, 1944, he refused to take the leadership oath in Konitz for reasons of faith and was subsequently sentenced to death. On the way to the Dachau concentration camp , Mayr-Nusser died on February 24, 1945 near Erlangen in a cattle wagon as a result of his imprisonment. He was first buried in Lichtenstern am Ritten , where there used to be an educational center for the diocesan youth (today the family home). In the course of his beatification, Mayr-Nusser was reburied in the Bolzano Cathedral .

beatification

In 2005 the diocese of Bolzano-Brixen opened the process of beatification . As a postulator was Josef Innerhofer used. Pope Francis confirmed the martyrdom of Josef Mayr-Nusser on July 8, 2016. On March 18, 2017, the beatification took place in Bolzano Cathedral . His feast day is October 3rd, the day before he refused to take the oath. From a historical point of view, it was criticized that in the process of beatification the political dimension of Mayr-Nusser's resistance to the Nazi regime had been ignored, since this question also affects the failure of the own church.

Honors

  • In Bozen, Meran , Ritten , Truden , Innsbruck and Erlangen streets are named after Mayr-Nusser.
  • The middle school of Vintl in Pustertal and the Caritas academy in Baiersdorf bear his name.
  • In 2010 Mayr-Nusser was posthumously made an honorary citizen by the Bolzano municipal council together with Franz Thaler .
  • In 2017, at the consecration of the new altar in Linz Cathedral, the relics of Engelmar Unzeit and Josef Mayr-Nusser were buried under the altar.
  • In 2019 the new center for church youth work on Bozen's Silvius-Magnago-Platz was named after him.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Mayr , actually , Nusser is a farm name .
  2. ↑ Hannes Obermair : Josef Mayr-Nusser (1910-1945), the option of resistance . In: City Archives Bozen (Ed.): The exhibit of the month in the City Archives Bozen . No. 63 , March 2017 ( online [PDF; accessed March 3, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Alexander Rausch: Mayr, Albert. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
  4. ^ Promulgazione dei Decreti della Congregazione delle Cause dei Santi. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , accessed July 8, 2016 (Italian).
  5. ↑ Josef Mayr-Nusser: Soon a blessed of our church. In: bz-bx.net . Retrieved March 9, 2017
  6. ↑ Hannes Obermair, Heinrich Schwazer: Josef Mayr-Nusser: annoyance for the church. In: New South Tyrolean daily newspaper . March 26, 2017, accessed April 1, 2017 .
  7. ↑ New center for the Linz Cathedral. Bishop Manfred Scheuer consecrated the new altar, a seven-ton block. In: OÖN, December 8, 2017.

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SURNAME Mayr-Nusser, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayr Nusser, Josef; Mayr, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian victim of National Socialism, martyr and blessed of the Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1945
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