Pirmin Fleck

Pirmin Fleck born when August stain , (* 3. June 1897 in Grombach ; † 20th February 1957 in Munich ) was a German Benedictine - missionary in Africa.

Life

He was the son of a saddler and spent his childhood in Grombach. From 1910 he attended high school in St. Ludwig's Main Monastery, later he moved to St. Ottilien and Dillingen. From 1916 he took part in the First World War as a private , where he was seriously wounded by a knee shot on the Sereth Front in Romania in 1917. In 1920 he entered the monastery in Dillingen, where he was professed on April 13, 1921 . On July 19, 1925, he was ordained a priest by Maximilian von Lingg . In September 1926 he was sent as a chaplain to the Peramiho area in East Africa, where he was seriously wounded in an attack by a lion in 1927. From 1929 to 1942 he built the Mpitimbi mission station , but had to leave it because of the changed geopolitical situation due to the outbreak of World War II and came to the Mahanje mission station . From 1951 to autumn 1952 he was back in Germany, after which he headed the Ligera mission station , which the Benedictine Bonaventura Breunig , also from Grombach, had built. In January 1957 he returned to Germany for health reasons and died a little later in a hospital in Munich. He was buried in the Archabbey of St. Ottilien near Munich. His sister Pirmina Fleck also worked as a missionary in Africa, but the siblings never saw each other after they left Germany.

literature

• Gudrun Graipel / Arnold Scheuerbrandt: Fleck, Pirmin , in: Grunbach uff dem Creichgöw , Bad Rappenau 2010, pp. 301/302 and 532/533.