Robert Wohlfeil

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Robert Wohlfeil (born January 8, 1889 in Conradswalde (now Polish: Koniecwałd ) near Stuhm in West Prussia ; † June 13, 1940 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a priest and victim of violence in the Catholic Church .

Life

After graduating from high school, Wohlfeil attended the seminary in Pelplin . He had to interrupt his doctoral thesis in Freiburg for health reasons. He was ordained a priest in 1917. He then worked as a clergyman in various parishes in the Pelplin diocese and the Free City of Danzig .

After his parish vicariate in Bruß , he was appointed pastor in Kladau ( Kłodawa ) in 1932 by Danzig Bishop Eduard O'Rourke . There Wohlfeil continued work on his dissertation.

Because he repeatedly criticized the Nazis in Gdańsk Free State and gave sermons in Polish, Wohlfeil was imprisoned in Praust immediately after the outbreak of World War II . He was then transferred to the Neufahrwasser civilian prison camp and forced to clean up the Westerplatte .

In February 1940 they were transferred to the Stutthof concentration camp (prisoner number 5816) and in April 1940 they were transported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Oranienburg (prisoner number 23398). There the priest was repeatedly harassed and mistreated. According to eyewitness reports, Wohlfeil died after one of the kapos pushed him off the priest's barrack while working on the roof.

In addition to Wohlfeil, the victims also included the German pastors Johann Aeltermann , Bruno Binnebesel and Ernst Karbaum , whose opposition to National Socialism was known even before the war.

His brother Edmund Wohlfeil (* 1902) was vicar in Rumia, Poland, near Gdynia in 1939 . He was shot before November 11, 1939 as part of the intelligence campaign near Piaśnica .

Commemoration

A plaque on the Marienkapelle in Söder near Hildesheim gives his name. The Catholic Church accepted Pastor Robert Wohlfeil as a witness of faith in the German martyrology of the 20th century .

literature

  • Helmut Moll (Ed. On behalf of the German Bishops' Conference): Witnesses for Christ. The German Martyrology of the 20th Century , 6th, expanded and restructured edition, Paderborn u. a. 2015, Volume I, ISBN 978-3-506-78080-5 , pp. 771f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] The alternative place Kuczwały refers to another place called Konradswalde.
  2. ↑ Edmund Wohlfeil (English; The photo shows Robert Wohlfeil.)
personal data
SURNAME Cheap, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic clergyman and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Conradswalde , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1940
Place of death Sachsenhausen concentration camp , German Empire