Paul Firket

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Paul Firket (born January 17, 1899 in Liège ; † October 25, 1942 ) was a Roman Catholic priest who was executed during the Nazi era for his activities in the resistance .

Life

Paul Firket came from a long-established Liège family, studied philosophy and Catholic theology after attending elementary school and high school and was ordained priest in 1924 . First he was appointed vicar in Pecher-Micheroux and then worked as a pastor in Neuville-sous-Huy .

After the invasion of Belgium by the German Wehrmacht in the summer of 1940, Paul Firket became involved in the resistance ; he hid Allied soldiers and helped them escape. He was then arrested, sentenced to death on August 2, 1942 for alleged espionage and executed in the Liège Citadel on October 25, 1942 . The ruling German judge is said to have stated that Firket caused "more trouble than a whole regiment" ( French: "Il nous a fait plus de tort q'un régiment entier" ).

literature

  • Benedicta Maria Kempner : Priest before Hitler's tribunals , Rütten + Loening Verlag Munich 1966, p. 79f.
  • Thierry Denoël (ed.): Le nouveau dictionnaire des Belges , Brussels: Le Cri, 1992, ISBN 978-2871062110

Individual evidence

  1. News from Belgium and the Belgian Congo, Volume 3, p. 94 (→ online )
  2. United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Belgium, 1969, p. 92 (→ online )
  3. Les écrivains belges contemporains de langue franc̜aise, 1800–1946 - Volume 2 - p. 1192 (→ online )