Petrus Mangold

Petrus Karl Mangold (born January 31, 1889 in Scheinfeld (Steigerwald) as Karl Mangold ; † July 18, 1942 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a Roman Catholic priest , Franciscan and staunch critic of National Socialism . He died in the Dachau concentration camp .

Life

Karl Mangold was the son of Scheinfeld master baker and Stadtkirchner Christoph Mangold. As a pupil, Karl was accepted into the Franciscan seminar “Antonianum” in Bamberg , attended the Bamberg New High School and successfully passed the school leaving examination there on July 14, 1911. On August 2, 1911, he entered the novitiate of the Bavarian Franciscans and received his religious name Peter . In autumn 1912 he began to study philosophy and theologian at the University of the Franciscans in Munich . At the beginning of the First World War he interrupted his studies.

From November 1914, Petrus Mangold did his basic military training. In January 1915 he was transferred to the war front , where he was wounded twice. As a platoon leader with the rank of ensign , he and his soldiers were taken prisoner by the French in September 1918 , from which he was only released in February 1920.

After returning home, he continued his studies in the study monastery St. Anna in Munich. He was ordained a priest on September 19, 1920 . After his ordination, Father Petrus Mangold came to the Franciscan monastery in Miltenberg . There he worked for eleven years as a pastor and people's missionary.

From 1931 he was guardian and director of the cloth making of the Pfreimd monastery . In 1939 he was elected as definitor to the provincial leadership of the Franciscans. In January 1940 he was appointed provincial provincial for the Sudeten German Franciscan monasteries. Above all, he was given the task of negotiating the rights of his order in the Sudetenland with the German state authorities after National Socialist Germany had forced Czechoslovakia to cede part of its national territory. Father Petrus lived and worked in the Franciscan monastery in Mährisch-Trübau , which belonged to the Archdiocese of Olomouc (Moravia), until his arrest by the Gestapo .

Father Petrus Mangold was denounced and arrested for statements hostile to the regime and sent to the concentration camp by the National Socialist rulers for his fearless advocacy of church and religious issues. On June 6, 1941, he was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp. There he was housed in the pastor's block and exposed by the SS to the prison conditions intended for the priests.

Together with Pastor Emil Thoma from Eppingen , Petrus Mangold drew up a list of the Catholic priests and religious as well as Protestant pastors who were imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp. This list was secretly brought out of the camp by couriers.

Petrus Mangold died in the Dachau concentration camp on July 18, 1942 at 2 p.m., according to information in the "medical certificate" of the camp hospital, of cardiac and circulatory weakness that arose after an intestinal disease and edema . The ashes of his remains were handed over to the order by the concentration camp administration and sent to the Franciscan monastery in Pfreimd by post in an urn . The burial took place there on August 31, 1942 in the monastery cemetery.

Honor and commemoration

• The town of Pfreimd named Pater-Mangold-Strasse after him in memory of the Franciscan priest who perished as a victim of National Socialism.
• The Archdiocese of Bamberg is showing a traveling exhibition about the martyrs of the 20th century, in which, along with other victims of National Socialism from the Archdiocese, Petrus Karl Mangold is remembered.
• In his temporary place of work in Miltenberg, a marble plaque was placed at the entrance of the former monastery, today's Franziskushaus and the seat of the Miltenberg Caritas Association.

literature

• Press office of the Archbishopric of Bamberg: The martyrs of the 20th century from the Archdiocese of Bamberg. (Booklet 18 of the series), PDF
• Winthir Rauch, Art .: Pater Petrus (Karl) Mangold. In: Helmut Moll (ed. On behalf of the German Bishops' Conference): Witnesses for Christ. Das deutsche Martyrologium des 20. Jahrhundert , Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , vol. 1, pp. 918-921.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Winthir Rauch: Father Petrus (Karl) Mangold. In: Helmut Moll (ed.): Witnesses for Christ. The German martyrology of the 20th century . Paderborn 1999, Vol. 2, pp. 756f.