Wilhelm Oberhaus

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Wilhelm Oberhaus

Wilhelm Max Oberhaus (born January 31, 1902 in Herford ; † September 20, 1942 in the Dachau concentration camp ) was a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Paderborn .

Life

He was the son of the factory owner Eduard Oberhaus and his wife Friederieke, née Honkamp. On April 1, 1933, he received the Great Cathedral to Paderborn the priesthood and came as a new priest in the parish of St Clement in Hombruch .

Wilhelm Oberhaus became parental rights because of his sermon (May 4, 1935) in which he said: “The children, dear parents, belong to you after God; only then the state! ”arrested in 1936. On February 7, 1936, he was charged with "an offense against Section 2 of the Dodge Act " at the Dortmund Regional Court and sentenced to 5 months' imprisonment.

On October 6, 1938, he came to Bockwitz (today Lauchhammer-Mitte) as parish vicar . In the course of the legal proceedings because of another incident on February 13, 1941, he was arrested in the rectory in Bockwitz and taken to prison in " protective custody " in Bad Liebenwerda , Torgau and Halle / Saale. He had slapped a BDM girl because of a cheeky remark and was therefore initially sentenced to 6 months in prison on May 29, 1941 for "bodily harm".

After the end of the sentence on August 26, 1941, he remained in protective custody at the instigation of the Gestapo Halle / Saale and was finally transferred to the Dachau concentration camp on October 10, 1941 with the prisoner number 27,826 . As the files of the camp show, his suffering in the Dachau concentration camp lasted from the day of his admission on October 10, 1941 to September 20, 1942. He died of starvation and untreated phlegmon on his right lower leg. His remains were cremated in the camp crematorium and sent to his father in an urn.

The father had the urn placed in an oak coffin. With great sympathy from many people from Herford, the remains of the deceased were buried on October 24, 1942 in the Herford cemetery with the participation of Paderborn Vicar General Rintelen . The funeral was like a protest meeting against the National Socialist injustice.

Appreciation from Wilhelm Oberhaus

  • Wilhelm Oberhaus is one of a total of 20 martyrs of persecution by the Nazis in the Archdiocese of Paderborn. The Catholic Church accepted Vicar Wilhelm Oberhaus as a witness of faith in the German martyrology of the 20th century .
  • in Herford the municipal Catholic primary school was named Wilhelm-Oberhaus-Schule in September 1987
  • the city of Dortmund paid tribute to Wilhelm Oberhaus by naming a street in the Hombruch district
  • the Catholic parish of St. Clemens in Hombruch named the parish home, which was completed on January 19, 1958, after Wilhelm Oberhaus
  • In 1987, the city of Lauchhammer renamed the Südstrasse, located at its last parish church, to Wilhelm-Oberhaus-Strasse.

literature

  • Helmut Moll (publisher on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference), witnesses for Christ. Das deutsche Martyrologium des 20. Jahrhundert , Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , Volume I, pp. 577-580.
  • Tielking, Udo: Wilhelm Oberhaus - Power lies in the roots (characteristics and motives of a confessor against Nazi arbitrariness); ISBN 978-3-00-061103-2
  • Tillmann, Elisabeth (ed.): Dortmund Catholics under the swastika - memories of contemporary witnesses; ISBN 3-931183-02-5
  • Wagener, Ulrich: Witnesses for the Kingdom of God - The Sacrifice of Paderborn Priests and Religious in the Nazi Era; ISBN 3-87088-845-8

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City administration Lauchhammer (ed.): Lauchhammer - stories of a city . Geiger Verlag, Horb am Neckar 2003, ISBN 3-89570-857-7 , p. 61/62 .

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personal data
SURNAME House of Lords, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES House of Lords, Wilhelm Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic priest, victim of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1942
Place of death Dachau concentration camp