Michael Magerl

Michael Magerl was born in Wusleben near Pfraumberg/Böhmen in 1879. After visiting the Gymnasium in Mies near Pilsen, Michael Magerl studies theology in Prague. In 1903 he receives the priesthood and acts as a chaplain. It is then entrusted with the task of placing the weekly ‘Egerland’ on an economically secure basis. This task fascinates him so that he becomes the “Pionier of the Catholic press of the Sudetenland”. Untiringly active in the cooperative association of the Catholic press companies, he succeeds in 1925 in the establishment of the large leaflet, the “German press”, and the publisher “Vita” together with the printing company in Prague.

In the last days of September 1938, immediately before the occupation of the Sudetenland by Adolf Hitler, Michael Magerl will release appeals against the NS regime in the newspapers in southern Germany. So it is no wonder that the Gestapo on the 1st. October 1938, the day of the invasion, sealed the various establishments of the press association and took Michael Magerl in protective custody. For health reasons, he is released from the Gestapo prison in Karlovy Vary.

After the failed assassination on Adolf Hitler on 20. In July 1944 he will be heard again, but the Gestapo will not arrest the deadly man. He spends his last years in Franzensbad. Michael Magerl died on 28 January 1945 in the hospital in Aussig. As the transfer to Eger is not permitted, the funeral takes place in the cemetery in Aussig.