Josef Sullmann

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Josef Sullmann (born September 29, 1922 in Brixen ; † June 12, 2012 in Neumarkt ) was a South Tyrolean doctor , benefactor and patron . He lived in Ulten and then in Neumarkt .

Life

As the fifth and youngest child of a farming family in Brixen, he grew up there and, after primary school and high school in Brixen, attended the University of Innsbruck (medical studies), where he began his medical practice. He nostrified his doctorate in Rome in 1954 and then worked for many years as a local doctor in Ulten (until 1965) and then in Klausen until 1992 . As a young doctor he recognized the medical emergency, especially in Africa, and began to finance the construction of hospitals and mission stations with his own money , according to his motto : As a doctor I want to bring medical help for the poorest of the poor, as a Christian I want to do evangelization work support the missionaries as well as: As a doctor for health, as a Christian for evangelization .

Among other things, he financed from 2000:

  • Pediatric ward (children's clinic, 24 beds) of the hospital in Ascención in Bolivia for Guarayo Indians, opening July 2001, costs about USD 90,000 financed by Sullmann
  • Birth Clinic (2005) there
  • Clinic (50 beds) in Ngarenairobi ( Tanzania , West Kilimanjaro region ) at the mission station of the Holy Spirit Fathers inaugurated on August 24, 2003 (the ambulance equipment was donated by the Bozener White Cross )
  • Project Ushirombo (clinic, house for the formation of catechists, church and parish institutions) in West Tanzania, inaugurated on August 20, 2006; the deep well there was financed jointly with the state of South Tyrol (2007)
  • Clinic of the Narosoora Mission in Southwest Kenya for Maasai , inaugurated on August 27, 2006
  • Restoration of the hospital in Wiaga (Northern Ghana ), new construction of a maternity clinic and two staff houses for doctors and midwives, as well as a parish center in Pagha (Navrongo in Northern Ghana), joint opening on September 7, 2008
  • Secondary Girls' School, a clinic and Franciscan Church for the "Little Sisters of Saint Francis" community in Ijinyu ( Diocese of Same , East Tanzania), opening on December 16, 2009
  • Hospital (25 beds) for the parish Gonja Kighare (also Diocese Same), opening on December 17, 2009
  • Orphanage and infirmary for the Mission on Leyte Island ( Philippines )
  • Complete mission station (church, parish structure, clinic) in Talí and vocational school for 300 young people in Leer (both Sudan )

In total, he financed 44 properties in 17 projects. In his last interview, given a few days before his death, which was published posthumously, he answered the question whether he was Karlheinz Böhm of South Tyrol that Böhm collected aid money with his foundation; I don't collect a cent; I pay everything out of my own pocket . He motivated his last interview with the wish that one or the other might be copied .

politics

He was never active in political functions or organizations and, according to his statement, was never a member of the South Tyrol Liberation Committee , but treated an injured South Tyrol activist as a community doctor in Ulten , which is why he was arrested. In the Bolzano prison he made the inmates Anton Gostner after because of suffering torture heart attack first aid and called in November 1961, the other prisoners with a letter addressed to the public, smuggled by Sepp Mitterhofer from prison in Austria from the Kronen Zeitung published secret messages , that the patient with heart disease would receive the necessary medication and be hospitalized (this was refused, whereupon he died on January 7, 1962). He was questioned as a witness in the trial against the Carabinieri for torture , but most of them were acquitted in this so-called Trento Trial (1963). In the "1st Milan Trial", Sullmann was then charged with aiding and abetting, but was released - without conviction - after a total of 2 years and 11 months in custody (acquittal 1966; also for Hans Dietl ). Sullmann also signed the declaration by the South Tyrolean political prisoners, distributed on November 22, 1969, in which they rejected the South Tyrolean package .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daily newspaper Dolomiten , obituaries of June 14, 2012; see also https://web.archive.org/web/20120616115735/http://www.stol.it/Dolomiten/Todesverbindungen/(vom)/2012-06-14 queried on June 24, 2012
  2. ^ Likewise in the report on Sunday 7th January 2007, page 22; see also www.pepi.it/download/anhang/Mission.pdf queried on June 24, 2012
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 24, 2012
  4. ^ The new South Tyrolean daily newspaper June 17, 2012, pages 16–17
  5. ^ The new South Tyrolean daily newspaper June 17, 2012, pages 16–17
  6. ↑ So his account and the testimony of his family; the opposite, however, is the assertion of the shooters on the occasion of an obituary, cf. Archived copy ( memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) retrieved on June 24, 2012
  7. ↑ http://www.suedtiroler-freiheitskampf.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=36 queried on January 21, 2012
  8. ↑ Archive link ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on June 24, 2012
  9. ^ Letter from Sepp Kerschbaumer reproduced on http://hochtirol.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/867/ queried on June 24, 2012
  10. ↑ http ://www.suedtiroler- Freiheitskampf.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61 queried on January 21, 2012
  11. ^ Friedl Volgger: Mit Südtirol am Scheideweg , page 248, Haymon Verlag 1984
  12. ↑ Baumgartner / Mayr / Mumelter: Fire night. South Tyrol's bomb years, a contemporary history reader , page 87, Edition Raetia (Bozen 1992)
  13. ↑ Baumgartner / Mayr / Mumelter: Fire night. South Tyrol's bomb years, a contemporary history reader , page 93, Edition Raetia (Bozen 1992)
  14. ↑ Baumgartner / Mayr / Mumelter: Fire night. South Tyrol's bomb years, a contemporary history reader , page 163, Edition Raetia (Bozen 1992)
  15. ↑ ITALY / SOUTH TYROL: Blasted Sprenger . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 1966 ( online - May 2, 1966 ).
  16. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Sullmann, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian doctor and benefactor (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Brixen
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 2012
Place of death Neumarkt (South Tyrol) , Italy