Reburial
The term reburial denotes the relocation of the remains of the buried dead to another burial site. If the deceased has not yet been buried, i.e. he is transported to another place before the actual burial, one speaks of his transfer to the place of burial.
Reasons for reburial are for example:
- the desired reunification of family members buried in different places
- the central burial of war victims (some of them barely buried) in a military cemetery
- but also the rehabilitation of formerly persecuted citizens (see e.g. Imre Nagy ) or, conversely, the ostracism of previously honored personalities
- or as an introduction to a beatification . The exhumation and subsequent reburial in a place of future veneration is a prerequisite for this.
- the threatened devastation of the cemetery
A reburial requires approval from the cemetery operator (mostly the municipality ), the regulatory authority ( regulatory office ) and the health department (especially in the case of deceased persons who suffered or died from a communicable disease ). The applicable legal regulations can be found in the funeral laws of the federal states.
In general, however, the approval is only granted if the reburial is in the public interest, since the peace of the deceased should not be disturbed. The provisions are laid down in the cemetery regulations of the respective cemetery administration.
Examples
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- The famadihana is a ritual reburial of the dead in Madagascar, which is carried out every 10 years at least.
- The French historian, politician and reform socialist Jean Jaurès , murdered by a nationalist in 1914, was transferred ten years later from his original burial site to the Panthéon , the national hall of fame, with great public sympathy .
- Imre Nagy , Hungarian Prime Minister at the time of the Hungarian People's Uprising in 1956, was abducted, executed and - handcuffed and face down - buried after the uprising ended. After the political change in 1989, Imre Nagy was officially rehabilitated in Hungary and on June 16, 1989, shortly before the death of his opponent János Kádár , he was reburied and solemnly buried .
- In November 2012, the bones of the last Polish president-in-exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski, and another victim of the government plane crash in Smolensk were reburied after being mixed up in the run-up to the original burial in 2010.