It is simply because that according to some doctor, or because of the decision of some committee, they have no longer a right to live because they are “unproductive citizens.”…, Once [we] admit the right to kill unproductive persons…then none of us can be sure of his life. Galen to his mother, August 3 1914. [47] A year later, the euthanasia programme was still active, but the regime was conducting it in greater secrecy. Clemens August Kardinal von Galen. I encouraged them, each who was able, to serve the Fatherland...I have done this [volunteered] because I believe I must be a good example for my community. In a joint interview with British officials, Galen told the international press that "just as I fought against Nazi injustices, I will fight any injustice, no matter where it comes from". Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree.... ” Count Clemens August von Galen, the bishop of Münster, openly challenged the regime, arguing that it was the duty of Christians to oppose the taking of human life even if this cost them their own lives.…. August 1941 hält Clemens August Graf von Galen in Münster eine unerhörte Predigt: Er wettert gegen den Massenmord der Nationalsozialisten … May God reward you for it. Galen did not protest the antisemitic 1935 Nuremberg Laws, or the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938. 02381 / 62966 Fax 02381 / 65120 E-Mail: clemensaugust-hamm @ bistum-muenster.de Öffnungszeiten: Montag von 8.00 - … They are the unchangeable and fundamental truths of our social life... Where in Germany and where, here, is obedience to the precepts of God? von Spee) geboren. Despite numerous British obstacles and denial of air travel, Galen arrived in Rome 5 February 1946. Euthanasiepredigt des Bischof von Münster Clemens August von Galen vom 3.August 1941 (Predigt zu Lukas 19, 41-47) Autor: von Galen Clemens: Veröffentlichung: Kategorie: predigt: Abstrakt: Publiziert in: # Originalbeitrag für den Leseraum: Datum: 2005-09-02: Inhaltsverzeichnis. Rom/Münster - Fast 60 Jahre nach seinem Tod ist der als Widerstandskämpfer im Nationalsozialismus bekannt gewordene Kardinal Clemens August von Galen am Sonntag in Rom selig gesprochen worden. [17] Galen openly supported the Protestant Paul von Hindenburg against the Centre Party's candidate, Wilhelm Marx, in the presidential elections of 1925. The Dedication of the Dr. Brigitta Gräfin von Galen Research Library The Clemens August Graf von Galen Institute is proud to announce the dedication of the Dr. Brigitta Gräfin von Galen Research Library. He feared the lower classes would embrace radicalism and anarchy. 02381 374403 Pastoralreferent Martin Remke. I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. In March, Pope Pius XI issued the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge (With Burning Concern), accusing the Nazi government of violating the 1933 Concordat and of sowing the "tales of suspicion, discord, hatred, calumny, of secret and open fundamental hostility to Christ and His Church". After the war, Münster rabbi Fritz Steinthal recorded Galen's support after Night of the broken glass, while expressing his firm conviction as rabbi that most Catholics in his city of Münster were horrified by the pogrom and in fact feared that they would be the next victims. As bishop of Munster, he became known as the "Lion of Munster" … It is always his teachers and educators who are wrong. [4][5] The sermons were illegally circulated in print, inspiring some German Resistance groups, including the White Rose. One of his teachers was history professor and noted biblical archaeologist Johann Peter Kirsch. Der Historiker Joachim Kuropka ist tot. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Sie sollen an das Wirken des Kardinals erinnern. Clemens Augustinus Joseph Emmanuel Pius Antonius Hubertus Marie Graf von Galen ou Clemens August Kardinal Graf von Galen ou ainda Clemens August Graf von Galen foi um arcebispo alemão, criado cardeal pelo Papa Pio XII em 1946, e beatificado em … "[26] Galen began by commending Stroop's mother for her devout Catholicism, then categorically refused to accept or praise Rosenberg's doctrines of euthanizing or forcibly sterilizing the disabled. Bischöflicher Wahlspruch Clemens August Graf von Galens. [10] At first he worked for a family member, the Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, as Chaplain. [55] Galen feared that German Catholics were being relegated to second-class status in Hitler's Germany and believed Hitler was missing the point that the Catholic Church and the state could be aligned against Bolshevism. Clemens August Graf von Galen aus Münster und der Kölner Josef Frings durchlitten eine wahre Odysse auf dem Weg nach Rom. We shall be at the mercy of any committee that can put a man on the list of unproductives. In an interview with Swiss media, Galen demanded punishment for Nazi criminals but humane treatment for the millions of German prisoners of war who had not committed any crimes and who were being denied contact with their relatives by the British. Fast 60 Jahre nach seinem Tod ist der als Widerstandskämpfer im Nationalsozialismus bekannt gewordene Kardinal Clemens August von Galen am Sonntag in Rom selig gesprochen worden. Am 22. Clemens August Graf von Galen was beatified on 9 October 2005 outside St. Peter's Basilica by Pope Benedict XVI, the 47th anniversary of the death of Pope Pius (1958). als „großen Zeugen des Glaubens … , der in finsterer Zeit das Licht der Wahrheit aufgerichtet und den Mut des Widerstands gegen die Macht der Tyrannei gezeigt hat.“ Von Galen, der kurz vor seinem Tod von Papst Pius XII. Frings platzte schon der Kragen: „Herr General, bitte kehren Sie um! Clemens August Graf von Galen (16. maaliskuuta 1878 Dinklage, Oldenburgin Münsterinmaa – 22. maaliskuuta 1946 Münster, Westfalen) oli toisen maailmansodan aikana Münsterin katolinen piispa Saksassa.Hän vastusti pelkäämättä sekä natsi-Saksan että liittoutuneiden miehitysjoukkojen mielivaltaisuuksia. In August 1917 he visited the front lines in France and found the optimistic morale of the troops uplifting. He said he had forwarded his evidence to the State Attorney. [37] He attacked the Gestapo for converting church properties to their own purposes – including use as cinemas and brothels. He was an outspoken critic of certain Nazi policies and helped draft Pope Pius XI's 1937 anti-Nazi encyclical Mit brennender Sorge (With Burning Concern). Am 3. Sie sollen an das Wirken des Kardinals erinnern. Galen was named a cardinal on Febuary18, 1946. At first Galen hoped that the Nazis would restore Germany to the position of respect that it had lost in World War I. Bischof. Ring in the new year with a Britannica Membership, This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Blessed-Clemens-August-Graf-von-Galen, Spartacus Educational - Biography of August von Galen, Facing History and Ourselves - Bishop von Galen and the War against the Disabled. Doch er wandelte sich und wurde als lautstarker Streiter gegen das Regime weltberühmt. He welcomed us politely but with reserve. Clemens August von Galen wirkte von 1906 bis 1929 als Kaplan und Pfarrer in Berlin, bevor ihn Bischof Johannes Poggenburg zum Pfarrer von St. Lamberti in Münster berief. Dieser obgleich nur als Vermutung geäußerte Vorwurf der Euthanasie war bereits die dritte Predigt von Clemens August Graf von Galen, in der der Bischof die kirchen- und menschenfeindliche Politik der Nationalsozialisten anprangerte: Am 13. Galen, Clemens August, Graf von, Cardinal, 1878-1946) found : Un vescovo contro Hitler, c2006: p. 4 of jkt (Clemens August von Galen: appellative Leone di Münster) Change Notes Ich kann auch leben, ohne Kardinal zu sein.“ Ein mehrteiliges Drama vom Fliegen, von Zündkerzen, ausgefallenen und überfüllten Zügen. Clemens August Antonius Ignatz von Ketteler, 25. Denn in dem Augenblick, in welchem die menschliche Obrigkeit in ihren Befehlen den klar Aufnahme vom 05.08.2013. Guter Zustand siehe Fotos. 16.3.1878 - 22.3.1946 ), deutscher Bischof und Kardinal. Throughout the Weimar years he remained on the right of German politics. Galen closed by assuring the officers that the Church would remain loyal to the state in all lawful matters. "[73], When SS-General Kurt Meyer, accused of complicity in the shooting of eighteen Canadian prisoners of war, was sentenced to death, Galen pleaded for his life to be spared: "According to what has been reported to me, General Kurt Meyer was sentenced to death because his subordinates committed crimes he didn't arrange and of which he did not approve. März 1878 in Dinklage, Oldenburger Münsterland; † 22. Following the German surrender in November 1918, Galen, still in Berlin, worked to create soup kitchens, aid societies, and clothing drives to deal with immediate problems of hunger and poverty. On second review, a Canadian general, finding only "a mass of circumstantial evidence", commuted Meyer's death sentence to imprisonment. Until his death, he refused to recognize that referring to Jews as "degenerate", "rejected", and "lost" or labeling anarchy or liberalism as "Jewish", in any way aided the Nazi regime or and its racist antisemitism. On August 3, 1941, he grounded his sermon on the biblical commandment not to kill: The first batch of innocent folk have left Marienthal under sentence of death….And so we must await the news that these wretched defenceless patients will sooner or later lose their lives. [1] As bishop, Galen campaigned against the totalitarian approach of the Nazi Party in national education, appealing to parents to insist on Catholic teaching in schools. August 1941 hielt. [...] As for the first commandment, "Thou shalt not have strange gods before me," instead of the One, True, Eternal God, men have created at the dictates of their whim, their own gods to adore: Nature, the State, the Nation, or the Race. Der Bischof von Münster brandmarkte die Morde an den Geisteskranken als Verbrechen und ermahnte im selben Atemzug seine Gemeinde, sich aus anderen Gründen vom gottlosen Pius replied that he was always aware that thousands of innocent persons would have been sent to certain death if he as pope had protested. Im kirchlichen Raum war Kuropka vor allem für seine Forschungen zu Kardinal Clemens August Graf von Galen bekannt. He espoused the stab-in-the-back theory: that the German military was defeated in 1918 only because it had been undermined by defeatist elements on the home front. Quotes . [22][23], In 1934, Bishop Galen began to attack the racial ideology of the Nazi regime, partly poking fun at it, partly critiquing its ideological basis as presented by the Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg. [36], In 1941, with the Wehrmacht still marching on Moscow, Galen, despite his long-time nationalist sympathies, denounced the lawlessness of the Gestapo, the confiscations of church properties, and the Nazi euthanasia programme. [32], While the Nazi extermination of Jewish people took place primarily on Polish territory, the murder of people with disabilities (viewed by the nazi regime as "invalid" individuals) became public knowledge because it took place on German soil and interfered directly in Catholic and Protestant welfare institutions. He was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. A paper from the British Foreign Office called Galen "the most outstanding personality among the clergy in the British zone... Statuesque in appearance and uncompromising in discussion, this oak-bottomed old aristocrat... is a German nationalist through and through. Clemens August Graf von Galen 1878-1946. A curse on men and on the German people if we break the holy commandment “Thou shalt not kill” which was given us by God on Mount Sinai with thunder and lightning, and which God our Maker imprinted on the human conscience from the beginning of time! Schöne Sprüche und Weisheiten von Clemens von Galen genauer: Clemens August Graf von Galen (geb. [9] In 1899 he met Pope Leo XIII in a private audience. "Feelings of German nationalism, apparently, could triumph over concern for the violations of the sanctity of human life in war. https://www.dhm.de/.../biografie-clemens-august-graf-von-galen.html Clemens August Graf von Galen wurde 1933 zum Bischof von Münster ernannt. Fest geprägt He's a man of courage and conviction. In July and August 1941 Galen preached against the general lawlessness of the Gestapo, the confiscation of religious property, and the T4 Program instituted by Hitler in 1939—a program involving the systematic murder of more than 70,000 sick, elderly, mentally retarded, physically infirm, emotionally distraught, and disabled Germans, who were an embarrassment to the myth of Aryan supremacy. [63] During a commemoration in 2012, Jewish Holocaust survivor and witness Hans Kaufmann of Münster reminded of the fact that bishop Clemens August von Galen had offered a helping hand to the town's rabbi Fritz Steinthal after the 1938 Kristallnacht, but deplored that other Jewish victims in Münster did not receive much aid from neighbours the day after. Go on working for Him... oh, you dear Saviour!" [50] According to Anton Gill, "Galen used his condemnation of this appalling policy to draw wider conclusions about the nature of the Nazi state. "[15] In 1916 and 1917 he welcomed reports that the German military had a plan to colonize Eastern Europe, stating that German Catholics should be moved into the area, especially Lithuania, with the goal not of expelling the Lithuanians, but educating them to think and feel as Germans.[15]. (2009). Wie wenig die meisten heutigen Deutschen die ethischen Grundlagen dieses Widerstands teilen, wird für jeden greifbar, der die vollständige Predigt liest, die Clemens August Graf von Galen am 3. Als Gegner der nationalsozialistischen Ideologie war er an den Vorbereitungen der päpstlichen Enzyklika Mit brennender Sorge vom März 1937 zur Lage der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland beteiligt.. Aus altem katholischen Adel stammend, wurde von Galen 1904 zum Priester … He spoke against Hitler's theory of the purity of German blood. He died a few days after his return from Rome in the St. Franziskus Hospital of Münster due to an appendix infection diagnosed too late. 1898-1903. In 1896 he went to study at the Catholic University of Freiburg, which had been established in 1886 by the Dominicans, where he encountered the writings of Thomas Aquinas. He was made bishop of Münster in 1933. He had become famous and popular, so after the pope had placed the red hat on his head with the words: 'God bless you, God bless Germany', Saint Peter's Basilica for minutes thundered in a "triumphant applause" for Galen. Tel. He told her how the Pope had quoted long passages from Galen's 1941 sermons from memory and how the Pope thanked him for his courage. Aufnahmeort: Privathaus der Familie Reding in Dortmund. Dr. Heinrich Portmann war seit Ende November 1938 Sekretär des Bischofs Clemens August Graf von Galen. Kardinal von Galen - Triumph und Tod: Fotos seiner letzten Lebenstage Published: (2005) Clemens August Graf von Galen: Bischof von Münster im Dritten Reich by: Sandstede-Auzelle, Marie-Corentine, et al. Besides, the Archbishop's[clarification needed] orders came from outside the Fatherland, a fact which disturbed us. On 3 August 1941, Galen's third sermon described the continued desecration of Catholic churches, the closing and confiscation of convents and monasteries, and the deportation of mentally ill people to undisclosed destinations, while a notice was sent to family members stating that the person in question had died. Coat of arms in Siebmacher's coat of arms book Kundige Biografie unter einem spezifischen Blickwinkel - Der Autor zeigt wie sich Galens Glaube und... Versand möglich. His only reported vice, which he refused to give up, was smoking his pipes. The library is also dedicated to her memory. [77], After receiving the red hat, Galen went to see Madre Pascalina, the faithful servant of the Pope. … Statuesque in appearance and uncompromising in discussion, this oak-bottomed old aristocrat … is a German nationalist through and through.”, mass killing in the involuntary euthanasia programme of persons with mental or physical defects, relentless persecution of Christians within the Soviet Union after 1918, murder of people with disabilities (viewed by the nazi regime as "invalid" individuals), former German provinces and territories in the east, "The Murder of Unproductive Persons" Clemens von Galen, Death and Deliverance: 'Euthanasia' in Germany, C.1900 to 1945, Encyclopædia Britannica's Reflections on the Holocaust, Library : The Bishop vs. the Nazis: Bl. On October 9, 2005, he was beatified by the church, largely because of his role in opposing the T4 Program. Historische Broschüre vom bekannten Münsterschen Pressefotografen Clemens Hülsbusch im Selbstverlag herausgegeben, erschienen bei Holterdorf, Oelde 1946. Heute hat einer der ganz Großen Geburtstag – einer der ganz Großen für mich: Kardinal Clemens August Graf von Galen, der Löwe von Münster – geboren am 16. [23] Bishop Galen also derided the neo-pagan theories of Rosenberg in The Myth of the Twentieth Century as perhaps no more than "an occasion for laughter in the educated world", but warned that Rosenberg's "immense importance lies in the acceptance of his basic notions as the authentic philosophy of National Socialism and in his almost unlimited power in the field of German education. In 1936, when the Nazis removed crucifixes from schools, Galen's protest led to a public demonstration. 8 Stelen geben dem Mut-Weg zur Burg sein Gesicht. Reluctant to transform Galen into a martyr, the Nazi government put him under virtual house arrest but deported priests serving in his diocese and took violent retribution against at least three priests who had distributed the sermon. Hier stirbt er wenige Tage später am 22. Galen's three powerful sermons of July and August 1941 earned him the nickname of the "Lion of Münster". His opposition to the Nazis, particularly their racism and totalitarianism, began on Easter 1934 and continued unabated. [38] He protested against the mistreatment of Catholics in Germany: the arrests and imprisonment without legal process, the suppression of monasteries, and the expulsion of religious orders. Nach dem Theologiestudium empfängt er 1904 die Priesterweihe und wird 1933 zum Bischof von Münster ernannt. And what resolution in his sermons! "Thou shalt not kill." At a time when the Jesuits were still not permitted in Münster, he received his main schooling at a Jesuit School, Stella Matutina in the Vorarlberg, Austria, where only Latin was spoken. Clemens Augustinus Emmanuel Joseph Pius Anthonius Hubertus Marie Graf von Galen, better known as Clemens August Graf von Galen, was a German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. [20] In 1933, when the Nazi school superintendent of Münster issued a decree that religious instruction be combined with discussion of the "demoralising power" of the "people of Israel", Galen refused, writing that such interference in the school curriculum was a breach of the Concordat and that he feared children would be confused as to their "obligation to act with charity to all men" and as to the historical mission of the people of Israel. There will be no police protection, no court to avenge the murder and inflict punishment upon the murderer.…. Copies of the sermon were secretly circulated in Germany and among German troops. Kardinal Clemens August von Galen war jedoch nur einer von vielen Kreuzzugs-Predigern, die von der Kirche selig- bzw. März 1878 als elftes von dreizehn Kindern auf Burg Dinklage im Münsterland (Landkreis Vechta) geboren. Galen's sermon probably had a greater impact than any other one statement in consolidating anti-'euthanasia' sentiment. 7, hrsg. [72] He forcefully condemned the expulsion of German civilians from former German provinces and territories in the east annexed by communist Poland and the Soviet Union. Even though the country was at war, Galen rejected the notion that his speech undermined German solidarity or unity. He told his audience that "whoever does not listen to the Church is a heathen and officially is a sinner". Galen then remarked that a regime which can do away with the Fifth Commandment ("Thou shalt not kill.") Born into a noble family, he entered the priesthood on May 28, 1904 and served as a pastor in Berlin 1905-1929 and in Munster 1929-1933. 11 € 48167 Gremmendorf. Clemens Augustinus Joseph Emmanuel Pius Antonius Hubertus Marie von Galen war ein deutscher katholischer Geistlicher und in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus Bischof von Münster (1933–1946), der sich als einer von nur wenigen Kirchenvertretern mit drei berühmten Predigten (1941) offen gegen das NS-Regime wendete und u. a. The social fabric would be affected. Members of religious orders were still being deported or jailed. 1932 veröffentlichte von Galen seine Schrift Die „Pest des Laizismus“ und ihre Erscheinungsformen – Erwägungen und Besorgnisse eines Seelsorgers über die religiös-sittliche Lage der deutschen Katholiken. [64], While not as explicit and not as effective as the vocal German episcopate's 1941 protests, in September 1943, von Galen and his fellow bishops in Germany drafted another condemnation of Nazi racial persecution and ordered it to be read from all pulpits in the diocese of Münster and across the German Empire, therein denouncing the killing of "the innocent and defenceless mentally handicapped and mentally ill, the incurably infirm and fatally wounded, innocent hostages and disarmed prisoners of war and criminal offenders, people of foreign race or descent". The sermons were printed and distributed illegally. Church leaders who opposed it – chiefly Bishop Galen and Theophil Wurm, the Lutheran Bishop of Württemberg – were able to rouse widespread public opposition. "[13] For the working class, Catholicism and Social Democracy competed for allegiance. Hier finden Sie alles rund um Clemens August von Galen und weiteren Glaubenszeugen. Diese Tatsache endete nicht mit seinem Tod am 22. Die im Titel als Zitat gekennzeichnete Begriffsbildung „Pest des Laizismus“ stammt aus der Enzyklika Quas primas Papst Pius’ XI. His term as bishop thus closely coincided with the Chancellorship of Adolf Hitler.. Consecration of the Bishop of Münster, Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen, accompanied by His Eminence Cardinal Schulte of Cologne, Bishop Bornewasser of Trier and State Dr. William Berning-Osnabrück in solemn procession from the Bishop’s Palace to the Cathedral. Als 11. von 13 Kindern wuchs er in der Geborgenheit einer gläubigen Familie auf. He expressed his deep love for Germany and reminded them that he had been the first bishop to publicly acknowledge the new regime. [38] The sermons protested against Nazi policies such as Gestapo terror, euthanasia, forced sterilization, and concentration camps. Oktober 2005 seliggesprochen wurde, beschrieb ihn Benedikt XVI. Versuch einer historischen Würdigung:~ Die Gestalt und das Wirken des Bischofs Clemens August Graf v. Galen, dessen zwanzigster Todestag den Anlaß des heutigen Ge denkens bildet, sind nicht nur in Stadt und Bistum Münster und nicht nur im katholischen Volksteil in lebendiger Erinnerung. If there were, Germany would look quite different! He made visits to the sick and poor, became president of the Catholic Young Men's Association, gave religious instruction in the schools, and for his efforts he was named Papa Galen by the parishioners he served. Pfarrbüro "Maria Königin" Meyer served nine years in British and Canadian military prisons.
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