It is not difficult to find death cards of soldier priests also because they are probably published by their parishes or monasteries or communities several times on the anniversary of their death. According to the agreements of 1933 (article 27) only the religious who have an operational function in parishes and religious schools are exempted from military service, leaving everything in suspense. But in 1939 Germany agreed with the Vatican (in a position of strength with Catholic Poland already occupied ) that all non-"operative" religious, including seminarians, friars, monks, etc.were obliged to enlist in healty units, also and often in first line units. There will be about one Division of German (and Austrian) Catholic clerics enrolled in health, and on 17,776 enlisted (from Lauren Falkner Rossi "Wehramcht Priest" ) the fallen and missing was 2403 (about 15%)
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While it is much more difficult to find wehrpass/soldbuch of these soldiers.
I was lucky enough to finally find one and also a very particular soldier-priest.
It is an Upper Austrian, Cistercian, priest, with his religious career and not only, between the Abbey of St. Florian am Inn where he was born and the Abbey of Wilhering where he began his priesthood (the two old guides on the Cistercian Abbeys around Linz come from a trip to my mother-in-law's in Austria in the sixties)Attached Files
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I just start from the Cistercian Abbey of Wihlering.
In 1940, Wilhering Abbey, because some monks discovered to collaborate with the Austrian anti-Nazi resistance, was expropriated by the Nazis, and the monks were expelled: some were arrested and sent to concentration camps, while others were forced into military service. The Abbot, Dom. Bernhard Burgstaller, was imprisoned and died of starvation in 1941. Wilhering in two old postcards, today and the portrait of the Abbot Bernhard Burgstaller and his tomb today in the Abbey of Wilering.
http://www.zisterzienserlexikon.de/w...ller,_BernhardLast edited by mufasa; 11-17-2019, 07:38 AM.
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I Have also a desth cardof one of the religious conspirators of Wilhering, in prison in Dachau Lager until the end of the war, Pater Konrad Josef Just, famous in Austria not only for his imprisonment
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Just
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and the wehrpass: issued in Linz on 2 September 1938, the military health (1941)
A religious of Wilhering Abbey, then, educator, painter and dialectal author.
Emmerich Doninger born 22 September 1914 in St. Florian am Inn; Roman Catholic priest ....
http://www.zisterzienserlexikon.de/w...nger,_Emmerich
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Reserve, and Father Emerich leaves, shortly after the closure of Wilhering Abbey, on 3 October 1941, a soldier of health in the Sanitäts-Ersatz-Abteilung 17 in Vienna where he remains until 1 December 1942. Then He was assigned to the Heeres-Sanitatsstaffel Sankt Pölten (there are in the wehrpass a blank certificate of this unit) until the end of the war. There is no other news in the Wehrpass. In his biographies it is confirmed that he was in Russia as NCO , and I would very much like to know the department in which he served, but I think it is very difficult to know….
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmerich_Doninger
"Anschließend unterrichtete er Altgriechisch, Latein und Kunsterziehung am Stiftsgymnasium, nach Schließung des Klosters ging er als Kooperator nach Sierning. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs war er Sanitäter in Russland und in der Ukraine"
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Originally posted by Archi View PostHello Oriano !
Very interesting topic and also very well researched, finding all those connected background stories.
And as always excellent pictures and images illustrating your presentation !
Many thanks for sharing all this work .
Best regards,
Archi
ciao Oriano
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