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Revision as of 03:24, 8 September 2013 by Fidulario (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Gerhard Hirschfelder (February 17, 1907-August 1, 1942), born Gladz, Germany, died Dachau Concentration camp. German Catholic priest and martyr, beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010.
Hirschfelder was ordained a priest in 1932. He worked with German youth and discouraged them from joining the Hitler Youth and from being influenced by Nazi propaganda. He criticized Nazism in his sermons and was denounced. In 1941, he said: "He who tears from the heart of young people their faith in Christ is a criminal", and was arrested a few days later. Sent to Dachau Concentration Camp, he died of illness and hunger aged 35.
External websites
- Gerhard Hirschfelder (German language)
See also
References
- Martyred German priest who died at Dachau beatified at Mass; By Carol Glatz; Catholic News Service; 20/Sep/2010
- Dachau concentration camp victims
- Anti-fascists
- Capital punishment and anti-Catholicism
- German Roman Catholic priests
- Martyred Roman Catholic priests
- German Catholics opposed to the Third Reich
- 20th-century Roman Catholic priests
- Religion in Nazi Germany
- 20th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
- German beatified people
- 1907 births
- 1942 deaths