Peter Lorenz
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Born in Vienna as the son of a German and a Slovak, Peter Lorenz studied theology after the Matura in Vienna and joined the student association in 1931. Nibelungia Vienna .
My father was the type of an adventurer; he practiced a lot of professions, often changed the post and remained nowhere. He was sailor, waiter and more [...]. He became a true believer Christ against his end of life. [...] My mother was a burger and a housekeeper at the court of Erzherzogchen: she was deeply believer and prayed the priestly precinct.
He has great difficulties to fight to be included in a seminary. Because of his German nationality, he is dismissed by the Hungarian and Slovak regents of the seminaries in Raab [Györ], Esztergom and Tyrnau [Tmava] on the grounds: “you are already possessing enough “swallows”. The Archdiocese of Freiburg/Brsg. also rejected him, the “Hungary”. For this reason, you have recommended an application in the Archdiocese of Vienna, which includes any “crowds”. In 1935 he was consecrated to the priest and first came as Vikar to Hainburg a. d. Donau.
After the occupation of Austria by the Third Reich in the martyr in 1938, he immediately operates in resistance. When a German official brother, whom he brought “black” across the border, thanks him on an open map, the Gestapo will be attentive to him. He is interrogated Elfmal at the Gestapo headquarters at Morzinplatz [He is head of the SS-Hauptsturmführer Heinz Hellenbroich in the autumn of 1941 to the spring of 1942] and five times the parish court is being pierced. When the pink entry certificate for the KZ-protective custody arrives at the Gestapo-Stelle Engerau, the official there to whom he once was helpful advises him: “Let yourself be placed in the last corner of the diocese!‘ This is how Peter Lorenz comes to Rohr in the mountains/NÖ.
In the last days of the war, Hungarian Jews came, more loudly studied people. [...] The field wobble guarding them went with my help “pin” and the Jews remained in pipe. Two days later, the guard battalion of the SS-Standarte Obersalzberg Rohr reached and quarted in the parish hall. I had hidden the Hungarian Jews in the cellar, in the beehouse and elsewhere and had to provide them. The population also remained dense during the next six weeks, so that the SS did not come to who the refugees were.
The Hungarian Professor Szabor Szita writes about this rescue activity under the heading “Sieg der Menschlichkeit”: “In the municipality of Rohr am Gebirge – situated between Höllental and Piestingtal – the local inhabitants granted shelter to 20 Hungarian Jews. At the forefront of the relief campaign was Peter Lorenz. ‘ After the war, Peter Lorenz is Dean in Pottenstein. Later a tree was planted for him in Jerusalem in the avenue of the righteous.
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- Fritz, Herbert/Krause, Peter (2013): Farbe tragen, Farbe bekennen 1938–45. Katholisch Korporierte in Widerstand und Verfolgung. (ÖVfStG, 2013), p. 413/414.
Peter Lorenz
Righteous Among the Nations