Cyrill Fischer

Zyrill Fischer , born as Johann Fischer (born July 12, 1892 in Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald , Upper Austria ; † May 11, 1945 in Santa Barbara , California ) was an Austrian Franciscan priest and resistance fighter .

Life

At the age of 18 Johann Fischer entered the Tyrolean Franciscan Province and was given the religious name "Zyrill". After studying theology, he was ordained a priest in 1918. Early on, he dealt with communism , socialism and National Socialism in critical writings and lectures . He worked with Karl Lugmayer , whom he had known since his childhood together in Schwarzenberg in the Bohemian Forest. Lugmayer published Fischer's article How do Catholics see the Jewish people? who takes a very positive stance on the Jewish faith. Fischer wrote there: "We owe the most important religious doctrines to the Jews".

Immediately after Austria's annexation to Germany, Fischer destroyed his documents and fled to the USA via Budapest on March 12, 1938 . There he met Franz Werfel , who had also emigrated, and supported him in his research for Das Lied von Bernadette .

Fonts

Socialist education, Typographische Anstalt publishing house, Vienna 1926
Child friends and Red Falcons, Vienna 1929
The Child Friends Movement in Germany, Mönchen-Gladbach 1929
The socialist child friends in Germany, Kevelaer 1930
The Nazisozi, Gsur & Co., Vienna 1932
Der Nazispiegel, Gsur & Co., Vienna 1932
Die Hakenkreuzler, Gsur & Co., Vienna 1932
Various essays, for example in a more beautiful future .

literature

Fischer P. Cyrill (Johann). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 320.
Stefan Kitzmüller OFM: Resistance in Word . The Franciscan Fr. Zyrill Fischer and his fight against National Socialism. In: Wolfgang Malsiner, Franziskanergymnasium Bozen (ed.): Annual report Franziskanergymnasium Bozen 2011/2012 . Bozen ( Franziskanergymnasium.it [PDF; 3.5 MB ; accessed on May 12, 2020]).

Web links

Literature by and about Zyrill Fischer in the catalog of the German National Library
Kulturatlas.at

Individual evidence

↑ Fischer, Zyrill, How does the Catholic see the Jewish people? , in: New order. Sheets for Christian Renewal of Society in the sense of the Linz program , ed. from the Reich Association of Christian Workers' Associations in Austria, editor: Karl Lugmayer, Vienna: Typographische Anstalt, special print from Dr. Lugmayer's "New Order" 1935, series 1 and 2, p. 10.
↑ See also: Paul R. Tarmann: Menschenrecht, Ethik und Friedenssicherung. Karl Lugmayer's approach to personal philosophy , Frankfurt am Main; Vienna (among others): Lang 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-58735-5 , pp. 144f.

personal data
SURNAME	Fischer, Cyrill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fischer, Johann (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian Franciscan priest and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 12, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald , Upper Austria
DATE OF DEATH	May 11, 1945
Place of death	Santa Barbara , California

[1] Fischer, Zyrill, How does the Catholic see the Jewish people? , in: New order. Sheets for Christian Renewal of Society in the sense of the Linz program , ed. from the Reich Association of Christian Workers' Associations in Austria, editor: Karl Lugmayer, Vienna: Typographische Anstalt, special print from Dr. Lugmayer's "New Order" 1935, series 1 and 2, p. 10.

[2] See also: Paul R. Tarmann: Menschenrecht, Ethik und Friedenssicherung. Karl Lugmayer's approach to personal philosophy , Frankfurt am Main; Vienna (among others): Lang 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-58735-5 , pp. 144f.