Dr. Josef Hüttl
Personalia
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Persecution:
Gestapo detention 19.03.1943 - 09.07.1943,
Dachau concentration camp 09.07.1943 - 06.04.1945
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Curriculum Vitae
Josef Hüttl attended the Staatsobergymnasium in Mies, where he graduated in 1927. He then studied theology at the German Karl Ferdinand University in Prague and then in Munich. In 1932, he was ordained a priest in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. After working as a chaplain in Falkenau a. d. Eger, he was appointed parish priest in Neuhammer [Nove Hamry/Czech Republic] in 1938. On April 3, 1942, a Good Friday, Msgr. Leopold Klima (1882-1955) resigned from the parish after a two-year stay in Dachau concentration camp and was forced to leave Bischofteinitz [Horsovsky Tyn] in Bohemia [then under the administration of the diocese of Regensburg]. He is succeeded by Archdeacon Josef Hüttl.
On his name day, March 19, 1943, Ash Wednesday, he is arrested by the Gestapo after a short period of pastoral work and taken into "protective custody" in the Gestapo prison in Karlovy Vary. He was then sent to Dachau concentration camp, from where he was only released on April 6, 1945 before the Americans moved in.
On July 26, 1952, Josef Hüttl stated the reasons for his arrest by the Gestapo on the record before the Bavarian State Compensation Office.
The NSDAP did not allow the cross to be carried at the head of the funeral procession at the funeral of Mr. Tschach (Oberneuhammer). Since the relatives of the deceased, who was formerly an organized Social Democrat, repeated their wish that the clergyman precede with the cross, I demanded that the party delegation precede at a clear and visible distance from the cross. I then turned directly towards the church with the coffin and the mourners walking behind it, so that the party had to lay their wreath without the coffin.
After his release from Dachau concentration camp
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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. 139/140.
