Paul Veil

Paul Gotthilf Veil (born November 26, 1899 in Mercara , East India, † April 9, 1945 in Ahlbeck (Heringsdorf) ) was a German Protestant pastor .

Growing up as the son of missionary Kaufmann of the Basel Mission John Benjamin Veil (1853-1929) in India and Basel, studied Veil from 1918 Protestant theology in Tubingen . In 1928 he took over a pastor's position in Roßwälden (today in Ebersbach an der Fils ). Here he joined the Confessing Church in 1934 . Because of his opposition to the Nazi regime , he was repeatedly interrogated by the police and threatened with dismissal. The upper church council of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg protected him again and again. After criticizing the November pogroms in 1938 several times , he was charged with violating the treachery law , but was pardoned when the Second World War broke out. Recruited into the Wehrmacht, he was seriously wounded in East Prussia in early 1945. He died in a hospital in Ahlbeck.

literature

Thomas Wolfes: VEIL, Paul Gotthilf. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 1488-1492. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Short biography in the series of articles " Courageous Christians in the Nazi State " (2000).

personal data
SURNAME	Veil, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Veil, Paul Gotthilf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 26, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Madikeri , East India
DATE OF DEATH	April 9, 1945
Place of death	Ahlbeck (Heringsdorf)