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 attended grammar school in Brixen from 1905 and then transferred to the k. k. Staats-Obergymnasium in Klagenfurt, where he became a member of the secondary school fraternity Karantania Klagenfurt
Although he was in poor health, he was arrested in November 1939 and transferred to Dachau concentration camp on May 11, 1940; he was then transferred to Mauthausen on August 16, 1940. One day later, he was assigned to the stone carrier detachment in the quarry at Mauthausen-Gusen. After 75 days of this hard labor under the motto "destruction through work", Marcellus Leeb was declared dead on November 1, 1940 with the cause of death "heart failure and dropsy".
Pastor Marcellus Leeb from Zedlitzdorf was murdered on All Saints' Day 1940. He had reported to the infirmary the day before, with water in his feet. He was dead the next day. He had received a lethal injection.
The ashes of Pastor Marcellus Leeb are buried in the cemetery in Zedlitzdorf on April 27, 1941.
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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.
