Matthias Semeliker

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Matthias (Mathias, Matijaš, Mate) Semeliker (born February 25, 1910 in Wulkaprodersdorf ; † November 2, 1986 in Eisenstadt ) was a Roman Catholic pastor who belonged to the Burgenland-Croat ethnic group.

Life

Semeliker studied philosophy and theology in Vienna and from 1937 worked as a clergyman in a number of Croatian-speaking towns in Burgenland . He resisted the regime in Austria under the rule of National Socialism , was finally arrested in 1943 and was interned in the Dachau concentration camp until 1945 . The trigger was that, as a pastor in Neuberg in Burgenland (Croatian Nova Gora), he vehemently advocated that the parents of the mostly Croatian-speaking schoolchildren should not give their consent that only German should be taught in primary school. Since 1941, Semeliker had already been warned and stopped several times by the Gestapo for “acts against the state”.

Semeliker's memoirs , written together with journalist and author Jurica Csenar, appeared in 1988 in Burgenland-Croatian under the title: Bog u Dahavi (“God in Dachau”).

Semeliker was the nephew of the pastor Anton (Antal) Semeliker, who was executed in April 1919 by representatives of the Hungarian Soviet Republic under Béla Kun as a reaction to the " Nikitscher Uprising" (Croat: "Fileška buna") in Sopron .

Recognitions

  • In Neuberg in Burgenland, an alley has been named after him since 2006.

literature

  • Matijaš Semeliker and Jurica Čenar: Bog U Dahavi: Memoari Matijaša Semelikera . Eisenstadt: Kanica, 1988
  • Herbert Brettl: Matthias Semeliker: A contentious priest for the rights of the Croatians . In: Ders .: National Socialism in Burgenland: Victims, perpetrators, opponents . Innsbruck, Vienna, Bozen 2012, pp. 348-350. ISBN 978-3-7065-4848-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / doewweb01.doew.at
  2. ↑ ORF (Burgenland-Croatian)
  3. ^ [1] Atlas Burgenland, Nikitsch
  4. ↑ ORF (Burgenland-Croatian)
personal data
SURNAME Semeliker, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Semeliker, Matijaš; Semeliker, mate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic pastor, victim of Nazi persecution
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Wulkaprodersdorf
DATE OF DEATH November 2nd 1986
Place of death Eisenstadt