Stefan Maletic (clergyman)

Stefan Maletic (born November 29, 1917 in Dolovo ; † February 20, 1993 in Belgrade ) was a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church and a victim of National Socialism .

Life

Stefan Maletic was born in Dolovo near Pančevo , Serbia in 1917 as the son of the local blacksmith. He first attended a high school, but when his parents could no longer afford the school fees, he continued his education in the monastery school of Visoki Dečani . In 1937 he was ordained a priest in the Radovasnica monastery . He then worked in the Bogovadja Monastery near Valjevo . During the partisan war he stood against the fascist forces and, as he had helped partisans, was interned in Šabac and Semlin and arrived in Mauthausen concentration camp on March 5, 1943 . On October 17th he was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp and then to a subcamp near Rostock. From November 1943, the final stop was the Dachau concentration camp , where he remained until the end of the war .

He survived the concentration camp and returned to Serbia after the war. He studied theology at the University of the Serbian Orthodox Church and graduated in 1957. He later taught at the monastery school in Krka and became the archimandrite of the local monastery. Later he became the representative of the Dalmatian bishop.

During the civil war in Yugoslavia , he was arrested by the Croatian Republic and imprisoned in a camp near Šibenik. He was released in 1993 under pressure from his family. Already in poor health at this point, he died on February 20, 1993 in a hospital in Belgrade.

literature

• Ljubomir Zečevič: Stefan Maletic . In: Irmgard Aschbauer, Andreas Baumgartner, Isabella Girstmair (eds.): Freedom is in fact alone. Resistance to National Socialism for religious reasons. Biographies and contributions to the 2009 International Symposium . Edition Mauthausen, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902605-17-7 , p. 123-124 .