Matthias Nobis

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Stumbling blocks for the brothers Johann and Matthias Nobis

Matthias Nobis (born January 15, 1910 in St. Georgen near Salzburg , † January 26, 1940 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was an Austrian conscientious objector .

Life

Nobis was the son of a farmer on the so-called blacksmith farm in Holzhausen, municipality of St. Georgen near Salzburg. Like his older brother Johann , he was a Jehovah's Witness and therefore refused military service for reasons of conscience . On December 20, 1939, he was sentenced to death by the Reich Court Martial for undermining military strength . "Like 260 other Jehovah's Witnesses in World War II, the Nobis brothers were executed in Berlin in 1940. " His brother Johann was beheaded in Berlin on January 6, 1940, together with four other Jehovah's Witnesses from the state of Salzburg - with Johann Ellmauer , Gottfried Herzog , Franz Mittendorfer and Franz Reiter . Two other conscientious objectors from Salzburg, Johann Pichler and Josef Wegscheider , were shot by Nazi forces in Glanegg .

Matthias Nobis was executed with the guillotine on January 26, 1940 in Berlin-Plötzensee .

The farewell letter of January 2, 1940, written by Matthias Nobis to his parents while in prison in Berlin and which was in the family's possession, was later handed over by family member Gertraud (Feichtinger-) Nobis to the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW) in Vienna .

Commemoration

Stumbling block for Matthias Nobis

On July 19, 1997, the German artist Gunter Demnig laid two stumbling blocks in memory of the Nobis brothers in front of their birthplace in St. Georgen . These were the first two officially approved stumbling blocks after Demnig started his long-term memorial project in 1995 and since then he has carried out several "unauthorized relocations" of stumbling blocks. The relocation in St. Georgen was initiated by the local founder of the memorial service , Andreas Maislinger , and was carried out with the approval and official approval of the then mayor of St. Georgen near Salzburg, Friedrich Amerhauser. The stumbling block bears the following inscription:

HERE LIVED
Matthias NOBIS
TOOLS JEHOVAH
JG. 1910
EXECUTED
FOR
REFUSAL IN BERLIN
1940

literature

  • Marcus Herrberger (Ed.): Because it is written: “You shouldn't kill!” The persecution of religious conscientious objectors under the Nazi regime with special consideration of the Jehovah's Witnesses (1939–1945). Verlag Österreich, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7046-4671-7 , pp. 159, 406 ( Colloquium series , vol. 12; table of contents online ).
  • Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.); Christa Mitterrutzner, Gerhard Ungar (edit.): Resistance and persecution in Salzburg 1934–1945. A documentation. Volume 2. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-215-06566-5 , pp. 325, 339-341.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Salzach Bridge: Stumbling Against Forgetting, Light and Shadow of the Past , December 2013, p. 73, accessed on April 12, 2016
  2. ^ Gert Kerschbaumer: Franz Reiter. In: Stolpersteine ​​Salzburg. Retrieved April 12, 2016 .
  3. ^ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.); Christa Mitterrutzner, Gerhard Ungar (edit.): Resistance and persecution in Salzburg 1934–1945. A documentation. Volume 2. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-215-06566-5 , pp. 325, 339-341.
  4. ↑ Marcus Herrberger (Ed.): Because it is written: “You shouldn't kill!” The persecution of religious conscientious objectors under the Nazi regime with special consideration of the Jehovah's Witnesses (1939–1945). Verlag Österreich, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7046-4671-7 , p. 406 ( online at Google books).
  5. ^ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.); Christa Mitterrutzner, Gerhard Ungar (edit.): Resistance and persecution in Salzburg 1934–1945. A documentation. Volume 2. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-215-06566-5 , pp. 339–341.
  6. ^ "Stumbling blocks" for reminder ( Memento from July 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Jehovah's Witnesses press release dated July 17, 1997; Retrieved May 11, 2011.
  7. ↑ Memorial stones for Nazi victims . On: ORF website from August 14, 2006, accessed on May 11, 2011.
  8. ^ Stefan Mayer: Salzburg's lowest point . On: www.salzburgermonat.at from June 24, 2009; Retrieved May 11, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Nobis, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conscientious objector and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankt Georgen near Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1940
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee