Kurt Bornitz

Kurt Bornitz (born February 8, 1899 in Kölleda ; † January 1945 ) was a German Protestant pastor , opponent of National Socialism and victim of Nazism .

Life

Bornitz came from a Prussian civil servant family . His father was the Royal Tax Secretary . After attending elementary school and grammar school, he obtained his university entrance qualification . As an adolescent he was organized in the " Freideutschen Jugend ". In 1919 he studied Protestant theology in Jena and Rostock . After the First and Second Theological Exams , he was ordained a pastor . Since 1929 he held a position at the Pauluskirche in Breslau . During the time of the Second World War he also held substitute services in the parish of Militsch . Contemporaries described him as a frank and open character who made no secret of his rejection of the Nazi state . In addition, a Gestapo officer living in the same building collected incriminations about Bornitz. The NSDAP finally ordered him to be drafted into the armed forces to take away his field of activity. While on leave from the front , he is said to have given a sermon in which his rejection of the Hitler regime was clearly expressed. He is also said to have had a pastoral conversation with an SS man , in which he addressed the inhumanities of the SS in the concentration camps . At the beginning of 1945 Bornitz received special leave from his troops, which had just been withdrawn from the Balkans . In this connection Bornitz was shot by two young SS men on the orders of the Gestapo. This was announced by the wife of the murdered man in 1948, who had received the news from a nun . The latter had received the assignment of a Catholic priest to whom the SS men had confessed their deed .

literature

• Werner Oehme : Martyrs of Protestant Christianity 1933–1945. Twenty-nine life pictures. Berlin 1979, p. 245.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://matrikel.uni-rostock.de/id/200014588 Retrieved July 3, 2011