Gerlach (Peter) Voigt OPraem

Photo von Gerlach Voigt — Gerlach Voigt (ÖVfStG)

Personalia

Order Name:

Gerlach, OPraem

Born:

January 27, 1909, Jüchen

Died:

December 27, 1975

Profession:

Priest

Persecution:

Imprisonment 02.09.1939 - 12.09.1939,
Imprisonment 27.06.1940 - 10.07.1940

Memberships

A.V. Vindelicia Innsbruck

Curriculum Vitae

Born in the Rhineland, Peter Voigt was accepted into the student fraternity Vindelicia Innsbruck in 1932. He entered the Premonstratensian monastery in Wilten in 1933 and was given the religious name Gerlach at his solemn profession in 1937. He was also ordained a priest in 1937. After his ordination, he worked as a co-operator of the emergency church in Wilten-West until 1947. In 1939, he was imprisoned for writing a letter to a young man in Addis Abbeba and in 1940 for preaching.

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Places

Place of activity:

Wilten Abbey, O.Praem (Innsbruck), Wilten-West parish (Innsbruck), Hötting parish (Innsbruck)

Citations

Fritz, Herbert/Krause, Peter (2013): Farbe tragen, Farbe bekennen 1938–45. Katholisch Korporierte in Widerstand und Verfolgung. (ÖVfStG, 2013), p. 573.

Gerlach Voigt OPraem

Priest

* January 27, 1909

Jüchen

† December 27, 1975

Detention