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.
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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 |