Kapistran Peller

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Father Johannes Kapistran Peller OFM (* as Johannes Wilhelm Peller September 30, 1891 in Vienna ; † April 15, 1945 in Stein an der Donau ) was a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Franciscan Order . He was executed as a resistance activist during the Nazi regime .

Life

Peller, son of a porter at the Anglo-Austrian Bank, entered the Franciscan monastery in Graz in 1909 . After his ordination in 1918 he studied at the University of Graz law . He received his doctorate in political science (Dr. rer. Pol 1927), law (Dr. iur. 1929) and theology (Dr. theol., 1937 in Vienna). He worked as a pastor and catechist in Graz, including student pastor of the Catholic University Association K. Ö. HV Carolina Graz in the Austrian Cartel Association , where he has been a member since 1924. From 1931 to 1935 he worked as a pastor in St. Pölten. After various offices in his order, he was from 1940 guardian of the Franciscan monastery and rector of the monastery school in Eisenstadt .

During the Second World War he joined the resistance group “ Antifascist Freedom Movement Austria ” and produced anti-regime leaflets. In August 1943, carried his arrest in August 1944, the death sentence and after a death march from Vienna to Stein an der Donau on 15 April 1945 in the local prison with 43 other condemned the shooting .

The Kapistran-Peller-Platz between the Franciscan Church and Mur in Graz was named after him in 1988.

The Franciscan Fathers Johannes Kapistran Peller and Angelus Steinwender are mentioned on a memorial plaque in the anteroom of the Antonius Chapel in the Franziskanerkirche, Vienna, Franziskanerplatz 4, along with "43 other convicts shot".

On April 19, 2015, the Graz Franciscans commemorated the 70th anniversary of his death in an evening light procession to Kapistran-Pialen-Platz; on April 15, 2020, a service was held in the Franciscan Monastery of Graz to commemorate Kapistran Peller, Angelus Steinwender and the other 43 on that day those executed in Stein an der Donau were kept.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kubinzky, Karl A. and Wentner Astrid M .: Grazer street names. Origin and meaning, 1st, edition. Graz 1996. p. 210.
  2. ↑ http://www.nachkriegsjustiz.at/service/archiv/Rb8.pdf Gedenken und Mahnen in Vienna (memorials to resistance and persecution, exile, liberation) on the Internet. Ed .: Association for Research into National Socialist Violent Crimes and Their Processing et al., Justice and Remembrance. No. 8, p. 38, October 2003, accessed June 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Commemoration for the 70th anniversary of Kapistran Peller's death, website of the Franziskaner Graz> News> Archive 2015. Accessed June 22, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.franziskaner-graz.at
  4. ↑ Life testimony: DDDr. Kapistran Peller OFM - Tower of the Winds. Retrieved April 18, 2020 (Austrian German).


personal data
SURNAME Peller, Kapistran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peller, Johannes Wilhelm Kapistran
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franciscan priest and resistance activist
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1945
Place of death Stein on the Danube