Marcellus Leeb
Personalia
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Imprisonment 01.05.1940 - 11.05.1940,
Dachau concentration camp 11.05.1940 - 16.08.1940,
Mauthausen concentration camp 16.08.1940 - 17.08.1940,
Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp 17.08.1940 - 01.11.1940,
Murdered 01.11.1940
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Curriculum Vitae
Marcellus Leeb visits the Gymnasium in Brixen from 1905 and then changes to the k. k. Staats-Obergymnasium to Klagenfurt, where he joined the middle school in 1912 Karantania Klagenfurt will. After the Matura he will be admitted to the seminary in Klagenfurt in autumn 1914. After his priesthood in 1918, he works in various pastoral care centres, such as Bad Bleiberg, St. Ruprecht am Moos, Maria Landskron, Radlach, Bleiberg-Kreith, Kraßnitz and Weissenstein, before taking over the parish in Penk in the Mölltal in 1926 and moving to Waidegg in the Gail Valley in the beginning of 1936. Here he goes on 16th. August 1936 for health reasons for "on both sides hearing loss, arteriosclerosis and heart muscle damage“ retired.
Although he has been hit by health, he is arrested in November 1939 and 11th May 1940 KZ Dachau on 16. August 1940 he will be moved to Mauthausen. One day later, he is assigned to the stone-carrier-command in the quarry in Mauthausen-Gusen. After 75 days of this heavy solid under the motto "Extermination of work“ Marcellus Leeb becomes 1. November 1940 with the cause of death “Heart weakness and water addiction“ declared dead.
The Carinthian pastor Nikolaus L’Hoste (1891–1965) also experienced the various KZs and meets Marcellus Leeb in Gusen. In the “Volkszeitung” of 12 March 1946, he reports about the death of Father Marcellus Leeb.
Father Marcellus Leeb from Zedlitzdorf was murdered on the Allerheiligentag 1940. He had reported to the nursery day before, with water in the feet. The next day he was dead. He had received a poison syringe.
The ashes of Father Marcellus Leeb will be on 27. April 1941 at the cemetery in Zedlitzdorf.
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Citations
Krause, Peter/Reinelt, Herbert/Schmitt, Helmut (2020): Farbe tragen, Farbe bekennen. Katholische Korporierte in Widerstand und Verfolgung. Teil 2. Kuhl, Manfred (ÖVfStG, Wien) S.202.
