Wilhelm August godmother

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Wilhelm August Patin (born June 25, 1879 in Würzburg , † between 1945 and 1949) was a German Catholic theologian and SS functionary.

Life

The godmother was the son of the senior general physician August godmother . One of his cousins ​​was the later Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler . After attending primary schools in Würzburg and Neuburg an der Donau as well as grammar schools in Neuburg, Munich, Eichstätt, Amberg and Bamberg, Godmother studied at the University of Munich until 1904 . He was ordained a priest on June 29, 1904. He then worked from July 21, 1904 to July 21, 1905 as coadjutor in Miesbach and then from July 21, 1905 to January 15, 1907 as curate at St. Johann Nepomuk in Munich.

In January 1907 the godmother was appointed royal vicar by decree. In the same year he placed at the Theological Faculty of the Karl-Ferdinand University in Prague his dissertation before, which he in 1908 to Dr. theol. PhD . From 1910 to 1912 he worked as a religion teacher at the Kreislehrerinnen-Bildungsanstalt in Munich. In addition, from November 1911 to the end of 1912, he took on the role of teacher of religion and morality in all classes of the Royal Cadet Corps . From 1912 to 1915 he was then a religion teacher at the Max-Gymnasium in Munich . At the First World War, he did not take part after Indispensable statement by the State Ministry of Culture and Education in Munich. Instead, he devoted himself to legal studies at the University of Munich and worked from autumn 1916 to Easter 1922 as a second religion teacher at the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich . During this time he became a court canon in June 1918 and on November 2, 1918 Dr. utr. jur. appointed. From June 11, 1918 to December 1, 1922 he was also canon of St. Kajetan in Munich. After resigning from this position, he was an honorary canon until 1936 or 1937.

From November 1, 1922, his godmother held the position of teacher at the Rupprechts-Oberrealschule in Munich, where he was given the title and rank of professor on July 1, 1924, before he was officially promoted to professor on June 1, 1926. On January 1, 1928, he was appointed professor at the Ludwig Realschule, where he worked until 1933.

In October 1933, Godmother took on a position as "Advisor for Catholic Action" in the southern section of the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD) in Munich. The SS he was at the instigation of his cousin Himmler since mid-1932 as a supporting member of the SS , while he in the NSDAP was recorded on mediation Himmler in April or October 1,933th He later became a consultant for political Catholicism at the SD headquarters in Munich, from where he continued his work as a Catholicism expert for the SS intelligence service even after the SD headquarters were moved to Berlin in 1935.

Godmother became an employee of the H (exen) special order , a major scientific investigation during the Nazi era to research the persecution of witches . Himmler's cousin spread the unproven story that an ancestor of the family named Passaquay had been burned by a witch .

In 1939, Patin finally moved to Berlin , where he was a senior government councilor and SS-Sturmbannführer advisor for Catholicism in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). He achieved his highest SS rank when he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer on September 1, 1939.

After his godmother asked for a dispensation from church service in the Munich monastery in June 1936 , which he justified with intolerance to the mass wine "even in small quantities", he finally left the church in 1938 and married in the same year.

After the end of World War II , Godmother was held in an Allied internment camp, where he died.

Fonts

  • Niceta, Bishop of Remesiana as a writer and theologian. Lindauer, Munich 1909, (Prague, University, theological dissertation, 1907).
  • The Bavarian religious edict of May 26, 1818 and its bases. (A state church law study). Erlangen, 1919, (Erlangen, University, legal dissertation, March 13, 1919).
  • Contributions to the history of German-Vatican relations in recent decades (= sources and representations on the political church. Special volume. A). Nordland publishing house, Berlin 1942.

literature

  • Shlomo Aronson : Heydrich and the beginnings of the SD and the Gestapo. (1931-1935). Ernst Reuter Society, Berlin 1967, p. 189 f., (Berlin, Free University, dissertation, 1966).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Wegener: Celts, Witches, Holocaust. Human sacrifice in Germany (= political religion of National Socialism. 3). KFVR, Gladbeck 2004, ISBN 3-931300-14-5 , p. 77.
  2. ^ Entry in the Bavarian Historical Lexicon
  3. ↑ Ernst Klee : The personal dictionary for the Third Reich (= Fischer. 16048). 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 451.
personal data
SURNAME Godmother, Wilhelm August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and SS functionary
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH between 1945 and 1949