Katharina Müller (Franciscan)

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Katharina Müller , religious name Sister Anselma FBMVA (born January 17, 1903 in Langscheid near Hausen ; † June 11, 1994 in the Marienhaus monastery near Waldbreitbach ) was a Catholic religious sister . During the time of National Socialism she hid a converted Jewish woman between 1941 and 1945 with great personal commitment and saved her from the Holocaust .

Life

Sister Anselma was the daughter of a farmer and entered the order of the Waldbreitbach Franciscan Sisters as a novice on May 1, 1923 . After training in home economics , she passed the nursing examination in 1928 . Then she worked in various branches of the religious order, including in Sinzig , Klotten , Hermeskeil and Neuerburg , as a nurse and house superior .

1939 some forest Wide sisters were 80 seniors to Germete been evacuated after their office in Ürzig due to the war to be abandoned had. Sister Anselma was the head of the house there and hid a newly-Jewish woman who had converted to the Catholic faith from the Gestapo from 1941 onwards . Since she was aware of the risk to herself, she had not informed the staff or her fellow sisters about it. Since she could not add the woman to the patient register, she also had no food and clothing cards for her. When the woman fell ill, for a long time it was not possible for her to find a doctor who was willing to take the risk of treatment that would also exist for him. When the woman was already in mortal danger, she finally found an officer stationed in Warburg who got her medicine. Under high personal commitment and under constant fear of discovery managed Sister Anselma to hide the woman until Germete from the US Army liberated was. She then returned to her family in Neuwied.

After the war, Sister Anselma continued to work as a nurse until she retired in 1980 at the age of 77. She spent this in the parent company of the Waldbreitbach sisters until her death in 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Angela von Rennenberg: Sister Anselma in Frauenbüro Neuwied (ed.): Von Frau zu Frau, Part II , Verlag Peter Kehrein, 1995, ISBN 9783980326650 , pp. 161/162
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sister Anselma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nun
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Langscheid (today Hausen )
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1994
Place of death Marienhaus Abbey near Waldbreitbach