Richard Stachnik

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Richard Stachnik (born July 7, 1894 in Schneidemühl , Province of Posen , † February 28, 1982 in Coesfeld , North Rhine-Westphalia ) was a Roman Catholic theologian, teacher and chairman of the Center Party in the Free City of Danzig .

Life

He was the son of the builder Richard Stachnik and his wife Katharina nee Talaska. Stachnik studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the Pelplin seminary since 1913. On February 11, 1917, he was ordained a priest. In 1923 he was promoted to Dr. theol. PhD at the University of Freiburg.

That year Richard Stachnik became vicar at St. Mary's Church in Gdansk. From 1928 he was a religion teacher at the municipal high school and in 1930 was appointed to the faculty there.

Richard Stachnik had been working full-time in politics since 1933. He became chairman of the Gdansk Center in March . As a member of parliament he was a member of the People's Day , the parliament of the Free City of Danzig.

The center was banned on October 21, 1937. Stachnik was sentenced to prison by the National Socialist rulers and released if he lost his pension entitlement. In 1939 he was banned from speaking, preaching and teaching. In 1944 he was arrested again and taken to the Stutthof concentration camp .

After the conquest of Danzig by the Red Army, the new rulers transferred him to the Narvik camp in Danzig-Langfuhr. He managed to escape in February 1946.

Richard Stachnik came to Herne , where he worked as a religion teacher from 1946 to 1953 and from 1957 until his death in 1982 as a chaplain ( monsignor and prelate ) in the mother house of the "Sisters of Our Lady".

In 1967 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class.

Publications (selection)

Richard Stachnik wrote some writings on church history, especially about Dorothea von Manatau and churches and priests in Danzig.

  • The formation of the world clergy in the Frankish empire from Karl Martell to Ludwig the Pious. A presentation of their historical development , Paderborn 1926, dissertation, Freiburg
  • St. Nikolai – Danzig 1227–1927: Commemorative publication for the 700th anniversary of the founding of the Danzig Dominican monastery. the history of the Dominican monastery: the St. Nikolaikirche, its construction and its fittings , Danzig, undated [1927]
  • Blessed Dorothea von Montau , Klausnerin von Marienwerder , Danzig 1935
  • Material on the history of the veneration of Blessed Dorothea von Montau , Danzig 1940
  • St. Brigitten Danzig  : History of the Brigittinnenkloster and St. Brigittenkirche in Danzig , Danzig 1940, with Emil Moske
  • The Catholic Church in Gdansk, Development and History , Münster 1959
  • Danzig priest book 1920–1945, 1945–1965. The Catholic clergy of the Diocese of Gdansk from 1920 to 1945. With a compilation of the secular priests who came from Gdansk, who were ordained from 1945 to 1965, and the religious priests who were active in the Diocese of Gdansk before 1945 or who emerged from it. , Hildesheim 1965
  • Dorothea von Montau, a Prussian saint of the 14th century; on the occasion of her canonization , Münster 1976, with Anneliese Triller
  • The files of Dorotheas von Montau's canonization process from 1394 to 1521 , Cologne 1978
  • Historia Residentiae Gedanensis Societatis Jesu from anno 1585 = History of the Jesuit residence in Danzig from 1585–1642 , Cologne 1986, with Anneliese Triller

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SURNAME Stachnik, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian and politician (center) of the Free City of Danzig
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneidemühl , Poznan Province
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1982
Place of death Coesfeld , North Rhine-Westphalia