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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

SIMOLEIT

forename(s)

Herbert

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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Berlin diocesemore on
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[access: 2013.12.04]

nationality

German

date and place
of death

13.11.1944

Halle an der Saaleform.: Dobrogóra
today: Halle (Saale), Halle (Saale) dist., Saxony–Anhalt state, Germany

more on
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[access: 2022.08.05]

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II during his weekly meetings with youth and soldiers talked about need to stop the war and discussed vast crimes perpetrated by the Germans, among others murders of Jews.

Arrested on 04‑05.02.1943 by the Germans in Szczecin, during „Fall Stettin” — action aimed at Catholic clergy — together with Fr Albert Hirsch, Fr Charles Lampert, Fr Friedrich Lorenz and Fr Alphonse Maria Wachsmann (arrested later), among others.

Held in German political police Gestapo prison in Szczecin.

Interrogated numerous times and tortured.

Next brought to a prison in Berlin and from there, on 06.12.1943, transferred to Roter Ochse prison in Halle (Salle) where on 30.12.1943 tried by the highest military court Reichskriegsgericht, together with Fr Charles Lampert and Fr Friedrich Lorenz, accused of treason and sedition.

Found guilty but the lack of unanimity between the judges — only some voted for death penalty — the sentence was not signed.

Prob. on 14.01.1944 sent to German army Wehrmacht prison in Torgau.

On 27.07.1944 tried in Halle again, with the aforementioned priests, and again found guilty.

Before however signing the death sentence during the following night presiding judge, Werner Lueben, committed suicide leaving a note stating that „These are neither 'criminals' nor 'asocial elements'.

Their only tragedy is that they are Catholic priests!” Finally on 08.09.1944 (or 02‑04.09.1944) in Torgau sentenced to death — for the third time.

On 10.11.1944 brought to Roter Ochse prison in Halle and beheaded, together with two aforementioned priests.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

22.05.1908

Berlintoday: Berlin state, Germany
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[access: 2020.07.31]

alt. dates and places
of birth

08.05.1908

Berlin-Steglitzlocality in Berlin, Steglitz–Zehlendorf borough
today: Berlin state, Germany

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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

25.03.1939

positions held

1941 – 1943

vicar — Szczecintoday: Szczecin city pov., West Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Szczecintoday: Szczecin city pov., West Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1939 – 1941

vicar — Greifswaldtoday: Vorpommern–Greifswald dist., Mecklenburg–Vorpommern state, Germany
more on
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[access: 2022.02.15]
⋄ RC parish

till 1939

student — Fuldatoday: Fulda dist., Kassel reg., Hesse state, Germany
more on
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[access: 2022.06.29]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

others related
in death

HIRSCHClick to display biography Albert, LAMPERTClick to display biography Charles, LORENZClick to display biography Frederick, WACHSMANNClick to display biography Alphonse Mary

murder sites
camp 
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Fall Stettin: German action against Catholic church in Szczecin and Pomerania region. Using provocation — among others German political police Gestapo disseminated rumours that Catholic priest allegedly installed broadcasting radio‑station on top the St John the Baptist church steeple and were secretly transmitting information to London — on 04‑05.02.1943 Germans arrested 40 people, including 11 Catholic priests, friars and nuns, accusing them of spying for allies. Some of the arrested were subsequently murdered (including five Catholic priests – four of whom were tried, sentenced to death and beheaded in the prison), the rest were sent to concentration camps. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]
)

Ribbentrop-Molotov: Genocidal Russian–German alliance pact between Russian leader Joseph Stalin and German leader Adolf Hitler signed on 23.08.1939 in Moscow by respective foreign ministers, Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov for Russia and Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany. The pact sanctioned and was the direct cause of joint Russian and German invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the World War II in 09.1939. In a political sense, the pact was an attempt to restore the status quo ante before 1914, with one exception, namely the „commercial” exchange of the so–called „Kingdom of Poland”, which in 1914 was part of the Russian Empire, fore Eastern Galicia (today's western Ukraine), in 1914 belonging to the Austro–Hungarian Empire. Galicia, including Lviv, was to be taken over by the Russians, the „Kingdom of Poland” — under the name of the General Governorate — Germany. The resultant „war was one of the greatest calamities and dramas of humanity in history, for two atheistic and anti–Christian ideologies — national and international socialism — rejected God and His fifth Decalogue commandment: Thou shall not kill!” (Abp Stanislaus Gądecki, 01.09.2019). The decisions taken — backed up by the betrayal of the formal allies of Poland, France and Germany, which on 12.09.1939, at a joint conference in Abbeville, decided not to provide aid to attacked Poland and not to take military action against Germany (a clear breach of treaty obligations with Poland) — were on 28.09.1939 slightly altered and made more precise when a treaty on „German–Russian boundaries and friendship” was agreed by the same murderous signatories. One of its findings was establishment of spheres of influence in Central and Eastern Europe and in consequence IV partition of Poland. In one of its secret annexes agreed, that: „the Signatories will not tolerate on its respective territories any Polish propaganda that affects the territory of the other Side. On their respective territories they will suppress all such propaganda and inform each other of the measures taken to accomplish it”. The agreements resulted in a series of meeting between two genocidal organization representing both sides — German Gestapo and Russian NKVD when coordination of efforts to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and Polish leading classes (in Germany called «Intelligenzaktion», in Russia took the form of Katyń massacres) where discussed. Resulted in deaths of hundreds of thousands of Polish intelligentsia, including thousands of priests presented here, and tens of millions of ordinary people,. The results of this Russian–German pact lasted till 1989 and are still in evidence even today. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30]
)

Pius XI's encyclicals: Facing the creation of two totalitarian systems in Europe, which seemed to compete with each other, though there were more similarities than contradictions between them, Pope Pius XI issued in 03.1937 (within 5 days) two encyclicals. In the „Mit brennender Sorge” (Eng. „With Burning Concern”) published on 14.03.1938, condemned the national socialism prevailing in Germany. The Pope wrote: „Whoever, following the old Germanic–pre–Christian beliefs, puts various impersonal fate in the place of a personal God, denies the wisdom of God and Providence […], whoever exalts earthly values: race or nation, or state, or state system, representatives of state power or other fundamental values of human society, […] and makes them the highest standard of all values, including religious ones, and idolizes them, this one […] is far from true faith in God and from a worldview corresponding to such faith”. On 19.03.1937, published „Divini Redemptoris” (Eng. „Divine Redeemer”), in which criticized Russian communism, dialectical materialism and the class struggle theory. The Pope wrote: „Communism deprives man of freedom, and therefore the spiritual basis of all life norms. It deprives the human person of all his dignity and any moral support with which he could resist the onslaught of blind passions […] This is the new gospel that Bolshevik and godless communism preaches as a message of salvation and redemption of humanity”… Pius XI demanded that the established human law be subjected to the natural law of God , recommended the implementation of the ideal of a Christian state and society, and called on Catholics to resist. Two years later, National Socialist Germany and Communist Russia came together and started World War II. (more on: www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
)

sources

personal:
niedziela.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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, pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]

original images:
www.gdw-berlin.deClick to attempt to display webpage
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, staedtepartner-stettin.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.04.16]
, commons.wikimedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.04.16]
, docplayer.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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, pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04]

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