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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

BURSCHE

forename(s)

Edmund

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function

pastor

creed

Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland EA

diocese / province

Warsaw seniority (commissariat) / diocesemore on
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[access: 2019.04.16]

academic distinctions

Doctor of Theology

honorary titles

Commander's Cross „Polonia Restitutamore on
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[access: 2019.04.16]

Doctor Honoris Causamore on
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[access: 2014.12.20]
(University of Baselmore on
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[access: 2016.05.30]
)

date and place
of death

26.07.1940

KL Gusen Iconcentration camp
today: n. St. Georgen an der Gusen, Sankt Georgen an der Gusen, Perg dist., Salzburg state, Austria

more on
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[access: 2022.01.09]

details of death

During World War I, after the Russian defeat in 05.1915 in the battle with the Central Powers near Gorlice, in the years 1915‐1918 resided (deported?) in the depths of Russia (as part of a so‐called bezhenstvo, i.e. evacuation — flight — of c. 2‐3 million people, mainly Russians, from the occupied territories of Poland).

Returned prob. a the beginning of 04.1918, after the separatist Peace of Brest–Litovsk in 03.1918 between the Central Powers and the Russians, and immediately — for his opposition to the creation of separate schools for Evangelical children — was apprehended by the Germans, who at that time still occupied central Poland.

Sentenced to 5 years in prison but prob. remained free, and on 11.11.1918, day Poland regained independence, his sentence was made invalid.

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of German occupation, arrested by the Germans on 07.10.1939.

Jailed in Pawiak prison in Warsaw.

On 01.02.1940 brought before the German war criminal, genocidal Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer‐SS, Reichs Commissioner for Strengthening Germanness, who was visiting the prison.

Refused to renounce his Polishness outright, and Himmler in the prison files of his case placed the annotation Germ. „Diese Familie ist auszurotten” (Eng. „This family must be destroyed”).

Next day sent to KL Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Finally on 08.06.1940 transported to KL Gusen I concentration camp — part of KL Mauthausen‐Gusen concentration camps' complex — where slaved in quarries and where perished (sources state „from pneumonia” — this was a standard formula used by the Germans for people dying in the camps — others that was beaten to death by German guards).

cause of death

extermination: exhaustion and starvation

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

KL Gusen IClick to display the description, KL Mauthausen‐GusenClick to display the description, KL SachsenhausenClick to display the description, PawiakClick to display the description, «Intelligenzaktion»Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

17.07.1881

Zgierztoday: Zgierz urban gm., Zgierz pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

10.02.1907

positions held

1922 – 1939

professor — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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⋄ Evangelical Theology Department, University of Warsaw [i.e. University of Warsaw (from 1945) / clandestine University (1939‐1945) / Joseph Piłsudski University (1935‐1939) / University of Warsaw (1915‐1935) / Imperial University of Warsaw (1870‐1915)] — lecturer in theology and Church history

1930

Doctor Honoris Causa — Baseltoday: Basel‐Stadt can., Switzerland
more on
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[access: 2023.03.24]
⋄ Universitas Basiliensis (Eng. University of Basel)

dean — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Evangelical Theology Department, University of Warsaw [i.e. University of Warsaw (from 1945) / clandestine University (1939‐1945) / Joseph Piłsudski University (1935‐1939) / University of Warsaw (1915‐1935) / Imperial University of Warsaw (1870‐1915)] — five terms: 1932‐1933, 1929‐1928, 1922

1920 – 1922

deputy professor — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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⋄ Evangelical Theology Department, University of Warsaw [i.e. University of Warsaw (from 1945) / clandestine University (1939‐1945) / Joseph Piłsudski University (1935‐1939) / University of Warsaw (1915‐1935) / Imperial University of Warsaw (1870‐1915)] — lecturer in theology and Church history

1919 – 1920

student — Baseltoday: Basel‐Stadt can., Switzerland
more on
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[access: 2023.03.24]
⋄ theology, Universitas Basiliensis (Eng. University of Basel)

1909 – 1919

parish priest — Łowicztoday: Łowicz urban gm., Łowicz pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ EA parish — with a break for the years 1915‐1918 and evacuation (i.e. bezhenstvo) to Russia; also: member of the City Council (elected 09.03.1919), municipal juror (elected 11.04.1918, despite a lawsuit)

till 1907

student — Dorpattoday: Tartu, Tartu city mun., Tartu cou., Estonia
more on
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[access: 2023.03.24]
⋄ Evangelical Theology Department, University of Dorpat — also: member of „Polonia Convent” academic corporation

well‐regarded researcher of Polish Protestantism, author of e.g. Germ. „Kirchenorganisationbestrebungen des Reformationszeitalters in Polen” (Eng. „Church Organization Aspirations of the Reformation Era in Poland”), Basel 1935; „The decisive turn in the life of John Łaski”, Warsaw 1934; „Factors explaining the course of the Reformation in Poland”, 1932; „History of Concordats”, 1930; „The Program of Polish Christian Universalism”, Warsaw 1927; „Poncki Pilate or Pontius Pilate”, Warsaw 1927; author of articles in the „Evangelical Trailer

married — father of two daughters

others related
in death

BANSZELClick to display biography Charles, BIELIŃSKIClick to display biography Joseph, BURSCHEClick to display biography Julius, FALZMANNClick to display biography Alexander Charles, FREYDEClick to display biography Alfred, GNIDAClick to display biography Francis, GUMPERTClick to display biography Steven Edward, GUTKNECHTClick to display biography Bruno, GUTSCHClick to display biography Sigismund, HAUSEClick to display biography Paul Henry, KAHANEClick to display biography George, KOŻUSZNIKClick to display biography Stanislav, KULISZClick to display biography Charles, KUŹWAClick to display biography Sigismund, LEHMANNClick to display biography George, MAYClick to display biography Leo Witold, MAMICAClick to display biography Joseph, MANITIUSClick to display biography Gustave, NIEROSTEKClick to display biography Joseph, NITSCHMANNClick to display biography Adam Robert, OŻANAClick to display biography Gustave, PASZKOClick to display biography Richard, PAWLASClick to display biography Vladislav, WAGNERClick to display biography Richard Ernest, ZMEŁTYClick to display biography Adolph

sites and events
descriptions

KL Gusen I: German Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL „Grade III” (Germ. „Stufe III”), part of KL Mauthausen‐Gusen complex, intended for the „Incorrigible political enemies of the Reich”. The prisoners slaved at a nearby granite quarry, but also in local private companies: at SS guards houses' construction at a nearby Sankt Georgen for instance. Initially opened in 05.1940 as the „camp for Poles”, captured during the program of extermination of Polish intelligentsia («Intelligenzaktion»). Till the end most of the prisoners were Poles. Many Polish priests from the Polish regions incorporated in the Germany were brought there in 1940, after start of German occupation of Poland, from KL Sachsenhausen and KL Dachau concentration camps. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.03.10]
)

KL Mauthausen‐Gusen: A large group of German Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL camps set up around the villages of Mauthausen and Gusen in Upper Austria, c. 30 km east of Linz, operational from 1938 till 05.1945. Over time it became of the largest labour camp complexes in the German‐controlled part of Europe encompassing four major camps concentration camps (Mauthausen, Gusen I, Gusen II and Gusen III) and more than 50 sub‐camps where inmates slaved in quarries (the granite extracted, previously used to pave the streets of Vienna, was intended for a complete reconstruction of major German towns according to Albert Speer plans), munitions factories, mines, arms factories and Me 262 fighter‐plane assembly plants. The complex served the needs of the German war machine and also carried out extermination through labour. Initially did not have a its own gas chamber and the intended victims were mostly moved to the infamous Hartheim Castle, 40.7 km east, or killed by lethal injection and cremated in the local crematorium. Later a van with the exhaust pipe connected to the inside shuttled between Mauthausen and Gusen. In 12.1941 a permanent gas chamber was built. C. 122,000‐360,000 of prisoners perished. Many Polish priests were held, including those captured during the program of extermination of Polish intelligentsia («Intelligenzaktion»). The camp complex was founded and run as a source for cheap labour for private enterprise. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.03.10]
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KL Sachsenhausen: In Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL Sachsenhausen, set up in the former Olympic village in 07.1936, hundreds of Polish priests were held in 1940, before being transported to KL Dachau. Some of them perished in KL Sachsenhausen. Murderous medical experiments on prisoners were carried out in the camp. In 1942‐1944 c. 140 prisoners slaved at manufacturing false British pounds, passports, visas, stamps and other documents. Other prisoners also had to do slave work, for Heinkel aircraft manufacturer, AEG and Siemens among others. On average c. 50,000 prisoners were held at any time. Altogether more than 200,000 inmates were in jailed in KL Sachsenhausen and its branched, out of which tens of thousands perished. Prior to Russian arrival mass evacuation was ordered by the Germans and c. 80,000 prisoners were marched west in so‐called „death marches” to other camps, i.e. KL Mauthausen‐Gusen and KL Bergen‐Belsen. The camp got liberated on 22.04.1945. After end of armed hostilities Germans set up there secret camp for German prisoners and „suspicious” Russian soldiers. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18]
)

Pawiak: Investigative prison in Warsaw, built by the Russian occupiers of Poland in 1830‐1835. During the Poland partition's period, a Russian investigative prison, both criminal and political. During World War II and the German occupation, the largest German prison in the General Government. Initially, it was subordinate to the Justice Department of the General Governorate, and from 03.1940 Germ. Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienst (Eng. Security Police and Security Service) of the Warsaw District — in particular the German Secret Political Police Gestapo. c. 3,000 prisoners were kept in Pawiak permanently, of which about 2,200 in the men's unit and c. 800 in the women's unit (the so‐called Serbia) — with a „capacity” of c. 1,000 prisoners. In total, in the years 1939‐1944, c. 100,000 Poles passed through the prison, of which c. 37,000 were murdered in executions — from 10.1943 Pawiak prisoners were murdered in open executions on the streets of Warsaw (sometimes several times a day) — during interrogations, in cells or in a prison „hospital”, and c. 60,000 were taken in 95 transports to concentration camps (mainly KL Auischwitz), other places of isolation or to forced labor. The prison Germans demolished during the Warsaw Uprising in 08‐10.1944. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.08.17]
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«Intelligenzaktion»: (Eng. „Action Intelligentsia”) — extermination program of Polish elites, mainly intelligentsia, executed by the Germans right from the start of the occupation in 09.1939 till around 05.1940, mainly on the lands directly incorporated into Germany but also in the so‐called General Governorate where it was called «AB‐aktion». During the first phase right after start of German occupation of Poland implemented as Germ. Unternehmen „Tannenberg” (Eng. „Tannenberg operation”) — plan based on proscription lists of Poles worked out by (Germ. Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen), regarded by Germans as specially dangerous to the German Reich. List contained names of c. 61,000 Poles. Altogether during this genocide Germans methodically murdered c. 50,000 teachers, priests, landowners, social and political activists and retired military. Further 50,000 were sent to concentration camps where most of them perished. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.04]
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Ribbentrop‐Molotov: Genocidal Russian‐German alliance pact between Russian leader Joseph Stalin and German leader Adolf Hitler signed on 23.08.1939 in Moscow by respective foreign ministers, Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov for Russia and Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany. The pact sanctioned and was the direct cause of joint Russian and German invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the World War II in 09.1939. In a political sense, the pact was an attempt to restore the status quo ante before 1914, with one exception, namely the „commercial” exchange of the so‐called „Kingdom of Poland”, which in 1914 was part of the Russian Empire, fore Eastern Galicia (today's western Ukraine), in 1914 belonging to the Austro‐Hungarian Empire. Galicia, including Lviv, was to be taken over by the Russians, the „Kingdom of Poland” — under the name of the General Governorate — Germany. The resultant „war was one of the greatest calamities and dramas of humanity in history, for two atheistic and anti‐Christian ideologies — national and international socialism — rejected God and His fifth Decalogue commandment: Thou shall not kill!” (Abp Stanislav Gądecki, 01.09.2019). The decisions taken — backed up by the betrayal of the formal allies of Poland, France and Germany, which on 12.09.1939, at a joint conference in Abbeville, decided not to provide aid to attacked Poland and not to take military action against Germany (a clear breach of treaty obligations with Poland) — were on 28.09.1939 slightly altered and made more precise when a treaty on „German‐Russian boundaries and friendship” was agreed by the same murderous signatories. One of its findings was establishment of spheres of influence in Central and Eastern Europe and in consequence IV partition of Poland. In one of its secret annexes agreed, that: „the Signatories will not tolerate on its respective territories any Polish propaganda that affects the territory of the other Side. On their respective territories they will suppress all such propaganda and inform each other of the measures taken to accomplish it”. The agreements resulted in a series of meeting between two genocidal organization representing both sides — German Gestapo and Russian NKVD when coordination of efforts to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and Polish leading classes (in Germany called «Intelligenzaktion», in Russia took the form of Katyń massacres) where discussed. Resulted in deaths of hundreds of thousands of Polish intelligentsia, including thousands of priests presented here, and tens of millions of ordinary people,. The results of this Russian‐German pact lasted till 1989 and are still in evidence even today. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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