Karl Heinz Möbius

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Karl Heinz Möbius (born July 26, 1913 in Berlin ; † January 10, 1976 there ) was a German Catholic priest and naval pastor .

Life

Karlheinz Möbius received on 13 March 1937 in Berlin St. Hedwig's Cathedral , the ordination . From 1937 to 1939 he was initially a chaplain in the Mater Dolorosa church in Berlin-Lankwitz . During World War II he served as a naval chaplain and was on June 1, 1940 in Stralsund adjusted and civil servants . In July 1943 he was sent to German-occupied Norway .

On October 5, 1944, he came to Tromsø after denunciation by two nurses in custody after being critical to the occupation of Norway by the Wehrmacht ( " operation weserübung expressed" 1940) and the " silver bullet " V1 "not a panacea for the further development of the war “Had called. Three weeks later he was sentenced to death for the degradation of his military strength in these two cases . Because of the pending confirmation of the judgment from Berlin, he remained in custody in Hammerfest . Only after the naval staff judge Hans Filbinger tried to take action against this judgment, it was overturned on Christmas Day of the same year. Möbius remained in custody and was only released during the last days of the war on April 26, 1945 in Kiel . He later said several times that he owed his survival to the delaying tactics of Hans Filbinger.

After the war Möbius remained pastor with the German mine clearance service . From 1946 to 1954 he worked as a clergyman in Binz on the island of Rügen. He then became a pastor in the parish of Berlin-Grünau - Bohnsdorf , which under his leadership became independent in 1955 in terms of pastoral care and in 1969 in terms of property law. Möbius died on January 10, 1976 in Berlin.

Others

The Möbius case was described in the book The Maligned Generation by Hans Filbinger.

A memorial service scheduled in the Diocese of Berlin on the occasion of the death of Hans Filbinger, at which the retired canopy Wolfgang Knauft wanted to remember the Möbius case, was canceled shortly before the performance of Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky .

literature

  • Wolfgang Knauft: Without thoughts of revenge. In: Catholic Sunday newspaper , 21./22. July 2007; Number 29, page III
  • Annelen Hölzner-Bautsch: 100 years of Mater Dolorosa Church - history of the Catholic community in Berlin-Lankwitz - 1912 to 2012. Editor: Katholische Pfarrgemeinde Mater Dolorosa, self-published, Berlin 2012, p. 119 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tagesspiegel from April 15, 2007
  2. ^ Der Tagesspiegel from April 17, 2007
  3. ↑ 100 Years Mater Dolorosa Church - History of the Catholic Community in Berlin-Lankwitz - 1912 to 2012 , Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz, accessed online on April 24, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Möbius, Karl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian, priest and naval pastor
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1976
Place of death Berlin