Ludger Born

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Ludger Born SJ (born June 15, 1897 in Duisburg , † November 26, 1980 in Münster ) was a German priest and member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuiten - SJ) .

Life

Born joined the Jesuit Order on June 26, 1915 and was ordained a priest on August 27, 1928 .

Until 1939 Born was superior of the Jesuits in the "Haus am Schlump" in Hamburg and initiated aid for Jews in the neighboring Grindel district . In 1939 he had to leave the city because the Gestapo had noticed him.

From 1940 to 1945 Ludger Born was head of the “Aid Agency for Non-Aryan Catholics” in Vienna, which Cardinal Innitzer had set up on a private basis. With his staff members (interestingly in a prominent position only women) Born helped Jews who had converted to the Catholic faith and were persecuted during the National Socialist period, despite their Christian creed. At the insistence of Franzi Löw , the director of the Jewish children's home, Born issued a forged baptismal certificate to the later bodybuilder Harry Gelbfarb , thus saving him from deportation to a concentration camp . In a similar way to this agency, the Swedish Israel Mission helped Protestant Jews leave the country on time.

After the war, Born returned to Germany. First he helped in Frankfurt am Main with the reconstruction of the Jesuit University Sankt Georgen and was active from 1949 in Dortmund, later in Essen as a pastor (especially for the Michaelsgilde in the Cartell Rupert Mayer ) and gave priestly retreats .

From 1966 to 1976 Born was again regularly in Vienna and worked as a writer there. For health reasons he had to move to the “Haus Sentmaring” old people's home in Münster, where he was buried.

His work in Hamburg together with others was shown at the special exhibition of the Geschichtswerkstätten Hamburg e. V. remembers in the memorial in the former Neuengamme concentration camp from April 16 to June 30, 2011: “... and last but not least your quiet courage. Help for persecuted people in Hamburg 1933–1945 ”.

literature

  • Lothar Groppe : Church service for persecuted Jews in the Third Reich. The Archbishop's Aid for Non-Aryan Catholics in Vienna. The documentation of Father Ludger Born SJ . Bad Schussenried 2016, ISBN 978-3-87336-582-7
  • Lothar Groppe: Ludger Born. The Archbishop's Aid Agency for Non-Aryan Catholics in Vienna (=  Vienna Catholic Academy, Miscellanea XII ). Vienna 1978.
  • Rainer Hering : Born, Ludger . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 57-58 . (2010)
  • Ulrike Hoppe (ed.): "... and last but not least your quiet courage": Help for persecuted people in Hamburg 1933–1945 . Hamburg 2010.
  • Gertrud Steinitz-Metzler: That you haven't forgotten us ... diary entries from the “stable” . Vienna 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalogus Provinciarum Germaniae, Austriae, Helveticae Societatis Jesu 1982, p. 60., OCLC 1070641432
  2. ↑ Traude Litzka: Church help for persecuted Jews in the Vienna area 1938–1945. With a focus on the 'Archbishop's Aid for Non-Aryan Catholics' . (PDF; 1.30 MB) Dissertation, p. 5.
  3. ^ DÖW: Franzi (Danneberg-) Löw
  4. ↑ http://www.con-spiration.de/syre/files/sentmaring/tb/born.html
  5. ↑ http://www.theologisches.net/files/1985_Nr.181.pdf page 6417
personal data
SURNAME Born, Ludger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1980
Place of death Muenster