Luitpold Layes

Luitpold Layes (born February 28, 1899 in Ramstein ; † January 20, 1994 in Landstuhl ) was a Catholic pastor who worked mainly in Frankenholz .

Life

Luitpold Layes was a chaplain in Bexbach . When the Frankenholz district received its own parish and replaced Höchen , he was appointed the first pastor of the young community. His inauguration was on October 15, 1927. Layes built up the parish. He founded and encouraged the establishment of numerous Catholic organizations, such as a separate German youth force , a church choir, the youth club , a women's community and the Werkvolk . After the annexation of the Saar area to the German Reich , he came into conflict with the National Socialists , especially because his youth organization tied more children and young people than the local NS gymnastics club. The dispute escalated in the so-called Frankenholz school strike , during which Layes called for protests against the hanging of Hitler's portraits instead of the Christian cross.

In 1963 Layes was appointed Episcopal Spiritual Councilor . On October 12, 1967, he received honorary citizenship in the community of Frankenholz. In total he worked in the parish for 44 years. In Frankenholz a street leading to the church (Pfarrer-Layes-Straße) was named after him. His successor Emil Bayer took over the community in 1971.

Luitpold Layes died in 1994 in a retirement home in Landstuhl.

Web links

Luitpold Laves on Saarland Biographies , accessed October 6, 2018

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Thorsten Wolf: A good piece of Franconian wood. Pfälzischer Merkur , March 13, 2012, accessed on November 6, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c History from Frankenholz. (No longer available online.) Bexbach parishes, archived from the original on June 30, 2015 ; Retrieved October 24, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Gerhard Paul : Refusal and protest in the "Volksgemeinschaft". The Frankenholz school strike and the cross-border commuter demonstration in Warndt in 1937 . In: Stadtverband Saarbrücken (ed.): Ten instead of a thousand years. The time of National Socialism on the Saar 1935–1945 . 2nd corrected edition. Merziger Druckerei und Verlag GmbH, Saarbrücken / Merzig 1988, ISBN 3-923754-06-X , p. 146-158 .

personal data
SURNAME	Layes, Luitpold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catholic priest
DATE OF BIRTH	February 28, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ramstein
DATE OF DEATH	January 20, 1994
Place of death	Landstuhl

[PM-1] Thorsten Wolf: A good piece of Franconian wood. Pfälzischer Merkur , March 13, 2012, accessed on November 6, 2017 .

[Hist-2] History from Frankenholz. (No longer available online.) Bexbach parishes, archived from the original on June 30, 2015 ; Retrieved October 24, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[3] Gerhard Paul : Refusal and protest in the "Volksgemeinschaft". The Frankenholz school strike and the cross-border commuter demonstration in Warndt in 1937 . In: Stadtverband Saarbrücken (ed.): Ten instead of a thousand years. The time of National Socialism on the Saar 1935–1945 . 2nd corrected edition. Merziger Druckerei und Verlag GmbH, Saarbrücken / Merzig 1988, ISBN 3-923754-06-X , p. 146-158 .