Augustin Rösch
Augustin Rösch(11 May 1893 – 7 November 1961) was a GermanJesuit,Provincial, and significant figure inCatholic resistance to Nazism.Active in theKreisau CircleGerman Resistance group, he was arrested in connection with the 1944July Plotto overthrow Hitler, but survived his imprisonment.
Life
[edit]Rösch was born inSchwandorfand entered the Jesuit order at the age of 18. During World War I, he was drafted into the army and fought atVerdun.He was ordained as apriestin 1925. Together withOtto Faller,he headed theStella Matutina (Jesuit School)in various leadership positions from 1925 until 1935. In 1935 he was named Jesuit Provincial, a post which he occupied to the end of "theThird Reich"in 1945. He appointedAlfred Delpto be his representative at the resistance meetings.[1]
After the failed coup against Hitler, he went into hiding in a farm. He was found, arrested, tortured and brought to theDachau concentration camp.Sent to interrogation to Berlin, he was freed in light of the advancingRed Armyof the Soviet Union. After the war until his death, he was heading the BavarianCaritas Internationalisfrom 1947 to 1961.[2]
See also
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[edit]- Augustin Rösch, Roman Bleistein (Hg.):Kampf gegen den Nationalsozialismus,1985,ISBN3-7820-0516-3
- Hans Niedermayer:Augustin Rösch: ein Mann des Widerstands im Dritten Reich. Jahresbericht Dom-Gymnasium,Freising, 1994/95, S. 8-24
- Roman Bleistein: Augustin Rösch.Leben im Widerstand. Biographie und Dokumente.Frankfurt a. Main 1998, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung, Ausgabe 125, 2000 S. 182-184,ISBN3-7820-0794-8
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