Raymund Lohausen

Raymund Lohausen (born April 16, 1897 in Siegburg as Peter Lohausen , † January 30, 1948 in Augsburg ) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman, Cistercian , resistance fighter and victim of National Socialism .

life and work

Peter Lohausen attended the Oblate School of the Cistercian Abbey of Marienstatt, founded in 1910, from 1912 to 1916 and was then a soldier in the First World War . After the end of the war he entered the abbey and took the religious name Raymund , making his perpetual profession in 1923. In 1924 Lohausen was ordained a priest.

From 1933 to 1934 he headed the Oblate School, where he himself had been a student. Since he suffered from the consequences of a severe war wound, he was allowed to live with his parents in Siegburg and to take on pastoral tasks in the parish of St. Anno. There he met Kaplan Leo Wolfen , who exemplified the resistance against National Socialism and whom he was to follow after his arrest in March 1937.

Because of his sermons critical of the regime and his very successful youth work, in which he worked through letters to the labor camps, which was forbidden, he was arrested by the Gestapo on January 6, 1943 in his parents' house, taken to the Klingelpütz prison in Cologne and Admitted to the pastors' block of the Dachau concentration camp in June .

On April 29, 1945 he was able to escape on one of the so-called death marches in the Ötztal Alps , but succumbed to the consequences of his imprisonment a few years later. The Archdiocese of Cologne and the Abbey of Marienstatt remember him as martyrs . It is listed in the German Martyrology of the 20th Century .

Since April 2016, a memorial plaque on his parents' house at Kaiserstraße 117 in Siegburg has been commemorating his work. Wolfgang Overath , Hein Mück (boxer) , Jürgen Becker (State Secretary) and Ralf Forsbach were present at the unveiling .

Web links

• Ralf Forsbach : Raymund Peter Lohausen (1897–1948), Nazi resistance fighter . Rhenish history portal of the Rhineland Regional Association , November 21, 2013, accessed on November 7, 2015.
• Father Raymund (Peter) Lohausen. Martyrs of the Archdiocese of Cologne, accessed on November 7, 2015.

literature

• Helmut Moll (ed.): Witnesses for Christ. The German martyrology of the 20th century. Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , Vol. II, pp. 1061-1064.