Seliger Dr. Carl Lampert

After the Matura in 1914 at the Gymnasium in Feldkirch, Carl Lampert, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, begins the theology study at the princess bishop seminary in Brixen and is consecrated as a priest in 1918. His first point of action is Dornbirn St. Martin, where he becomes Kaplan. In addition to his duties as a religious teacher, he is particularly concerned with the youth. In the autumn of 1930 he went to Rome for further study. After several years of practice at the Rota Romana, he concludes the church law studies there with the doctor of church law (Dr. iur. can.) and is appointed in 1935 as the lawyer of Rota Romana.

Bishop Sigismund Waitz entrusted him with the construction of the church court in Innsbruck in 1935. In addition, he will be transferred to the management of the publishing house Tyrolia in 1936.

On 15. October 1938, just a few months after joining, Paul Rusch is appointed administrator of the Apostolic Administrator Innsbruck-Feldkirch, which the Nazis do not acknowledge as bishop. That is why the 15th is In 1939, the appointment of Carl Lampert as a provicar of the Apostolic Administrator of Innsbruck-Feldkirch. In this way, he is targeting the new rulers, especially the Gauleiter Franz Hofer in Innsbruck, whose merciless hatred against the church he leaves from now on especially Carl Lampert. After three short-term stays on March 4, March 28, and June 5, 1940 (for several weeks each) the 25th August 1940 the transfer to KZ Dachau. The reason for this measure is ultimately the forbidden but responsible death certificate for the pastor murdered in Buchenwald. Otto Neururer, where it is called, among others: “... after great suffering [followings etc.] ... in Weimar-Buchenwald [Note on KZ] ... we will never forget his death [promoting the martyrdom idea].’ Since this is interpreted as a violation of the NS secrecy rules, the new arrest has taken place. With the introduction to the KZ, the path of suffering for Carl Lampert begins under the direction of the RSHA in Berlin.

A few days later, Carl Lampert will be hosted by Gauleiter Hofer on 30. August 1940 transferred from Dachau to the penalty company of the Sachsenhausen Oranienburg concentration camp. Here he has to work in the quarry, tolerate humiliation, torment and hunger until he dies on 15. December 1940 in KZ Dachau relocated. After his deprivation on August 1, 1941, he receives the order of the RSHA Gauverwei, so he cannot return to Tyrol and must now stay in the Gau Pommern-Mecklenburg, which he cannot leave without permission.

The Berlin Bishop Konrad von Preysing gives him a place in the Carolusstift in Szczecin, where he is also working as a hospital and soldier pastoral care company. The V-Mann SS candidate Franz Pissaritsch a.k.a. Georg Hagen from Spittal/Drau will now be appointed to Carl Lampert, who will perform his pastoral activities and his priestly confreres in the Stettin area: Kaplan Herbert Simoleit, Propst Ernst Daniel von Stettin, P. Friedrich Lorenz OMI, Parish Vincenz Plomka and Parish Albert Hirsch. Hagen supplies the Gestapo with the corresponding load material, which then leads to the opening of the court proceedings before the Reichskriegsgericht in Halle/S. after 10 months of unsuccessful interrogation on 19.12.1943.

In hall, the spyed priests are accused of hearing hostages, favoring the enemy, and dismantling the military forces according to § 21 of the war article. In this first process, Carl Lampert, Herbert Simolet and Friedrich Lorenz are sentenced to death on December 20, 1943, to constant loss of ambition and confiscation of the entire asset.

After several weeks of heavy prison in hall (20 December 1943 to 14. Jänner 1944 tied in chains) Carl Lampert on 14. Jänner 1944 transferred to Torgau to the military prison. Here it comes from 24-28. July 1944 to a second trial before the Reich War Court. The trial also ends on 28.7. with the death sentence. Carl Lampert is accused of espionage at a further third trial from 4 to 8 September 1944. The previous rulings against the three priests are also confirmed at the third trial on 8 September 1944.

Thus the priests mentioned are three times sentenced to death. According to eyewitnesses, these processes are pure screening processes, whose judgments have been given by the RSHA in Berlin. No one has had a fair chance here. In order to enforce the death sentence, Carl Lampert is brought from Torgau Prison to Halle/S. to the breeding house “Roter Ochsen” in the night from the 12th to the 13th November 1944, together with the other two priests in vain. November 1944 at 4 p.m. by the Fallbeil, previously supervised by the prison pastoral career Paul Arthur Drossert. As a cause of death for Carl Lampert, the death certificate No. 4569 of 13 November 1944 by Dr. von Wehner states: “simplified cardiac death – respiratory arrest” and he adds “decapitated”.

Carl Lampert Urne is first added to the Hallenser Gertraudenfriedhof and can then be transferred to Göfis in 1948 to his homeland where he found his last resting place. In 1998, a canonization process was initiated which was completed with the beatification by Cardinal Angelo Amato. He is beatified in Dornbirn on 13 November 2011 in the St. Martin City Church.