Josef Fink
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Imprisonment 06.04.1939 - 1940
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Josef Fink was born in Langen near Bregenz. After finishing school, he entered the seminary and was ordained a priest on June 29, 1927. He then worked as a cooperator (chaplain) in Dornbirn-Oberdorf, Wängle, Pfunds, Fliess and St. Margarethen.
If a religious or a priest is unfaithful to the call of God in the exercise of his profession, it is first and foremost up to the Church and not the state to intervene.
On March 10, 1939, he was informed that his permission to teach religion in Gallzein had been withdrawn. On March 12, he reports this to the congregation after the church service. The pastor of St. Margarethen was then arrested on April 6, 1939 for a sermon and "critical statements" and sentenced to seven months in prison at his trial on July 8, 1939 "for pulpit abuse".
After his release, he was appointed chaplain in Längenfeld on May 1, 1940 and then in Matrei in East Tyrol. There he witnessed the liberation of Austria in May 1945.
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Fritz, Herbert/Krause, Peter (2013): Farbe tragen, Farbe bekennen 1938–45.
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