Johannes Evangelist Schrank

Johannes Evangelist Schrank completed his theological studies in Innsbruck and was accepted into the student fraternity Unitas Norica Innsbruck in the winter semester of 1930/31.

In 1935, as chaplain in the Josefsheim in Röthenbach/Allgäu, he received a three-month ban on correspondence and a severe reprimand from the local district court for making statements critical of the regime in private letters. Postal and telephone surveillance was also ordered until 1938. In 1936, he was sentenced by the district court to two years and six months in prison and a fine of 20,000 RM for a so-called foreign exchange offense. Instead of the fine, 100 days in prison and 28,750 RM as compensation, less the 17,000 RM already confiscated, were also possible.

Johannes Evangelist Schran serves his sentence in prison in Landsberg/Lech. During his imprisonment, he receives further charges for making statements critical of the regime in letters to the outside world, but this has no consequences.