Konrad Trageser

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Konrad Trageser (born May 18, 1884 in Altenmittlau ; † January 14, 1942 in the Dachau concentration camp ) was a German Roman Catholic priest and victim of the Nazi regime.

Life

Trageser studied theology in Frankfurt am Main . There he became a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Hasso-Nassovia Frankfurt am Main in the CV . He was ordained a priest in Fulda Cathedral in 1910 . From 1917 to 1918 he worked in the St. Goar Church in Flieden , and from 1918 as a chaplain in Magdlos . In April 1925 he made a pilgrimage to Rome with the faithful .

Konrad Trageser had been a pastor in Marbach near Petersberg in the Fulda district since 1930 . In a sermon, Trageser was arrested by the National Socialists on July 26th 1941 for “decomposing military strength” and in the “civil workers camp” in Breitenau from August 28th to December 2nd imprisoned as " prisoner of protection ". Through a stopover in the Frankfurt-Preungesheim prison, he was taken to the Dachau concentration camp like many other Catholic clergy in 1942 and was interned in the local pastors' block . The diabetic carrier died there as a result of blood poisoning .

His body was cremated and the ashes transferred to his birthplace, where the urn was buried on March 24, 1942.

The contemporary witness Pastor Josef Albinger (Poppenhausen), who was imprisoned a short time later in the Dachau concentration camp, told Konrad Trageser:

“On July 26, 1941, Pastor Trageser gave the festive sermon for the Saint Anne festival in his Rückers branch . In it he exhorted the mothers to look after the salvation of their children, also for the sons at the front. The mothers would like to consider, he explained: 'More important than medals and decorations is the preservation of the nobility of the soul.' "

In 1999 the Catholic Church accepted Pastor Konrad Trageser as a witness of faith into the German martyrology of the 20th century .

literature

  • Helmut Moll (Ed. On behalf of the German Bishops' Conference): Witnesses for Christ. Das deutsche Martyrologium des 20. Jahrhundert , Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , Volume I, pp. 307-308.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sagan, Günter .: Pastor Konrad Trageser: his life and suffering . Imhof, Petersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-625-1 , p. 12 .
  2. ↑ Dietfrid Krause-Vilmar : Research on National Socialism, Protestant and Catholic clergy in the Breitenau camp ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Trageser, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic priest and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenmittlau
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1942
Place of death Dachau concentration camp