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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

GERIGK

forename(s)

Herman

forename(s)
versions/aliases

Hermann

function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Warmia diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2018.09.02]

nationality

German

date and place
of death

22.02.1945

(Baltic Sea waterbody)more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.06.29]

alt. dates and places
of death

20.02.1945

(Russia territory)today: Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.05]

Qaraghandyalso: Karaganda
today: Karaganda reg., Kazakhstan

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.03.19]

details of death

During Russian winter 1945 advance at the end of World War II — started by German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 — the chuch in Pruska Iława where ministered was hit by a bomb on 03.02.1945.

On 10.02.1945 the town was captured by the victorious Russians.

On the same day arrested by the Russians.

Fate thereafter unknown.

One version states that was marched to Insterburg transit camp.

From there managed to escape and got onto one of the evacuation ships to Germany.

The ship however was torpedoed by the Russians and sunk.

alt. details of death

According to other version transported out from Wystruć in a railway transport into Russia.

Was to be held in one of the Russian slave labour concentration camps n. Karaganda in Kazakhstan.

cause of death

warfare

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

ITL KarLagClick to display the description, GulagClick to display the description, InsterburgClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

10.05.1902

Olsztyntoday: Olsztyn city pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.28]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

20.07.1930

positions held

1940 – 1945

curatus/rector/expositus — Preußisch Eylautoday: Bagrationovsk, Bagrationovsk reg., Królewiec oblast, Russia
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ RC church ⋄ Bartoszycetoday: Bartoszyce urban gm., Bartoszyce pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.04.12]
, St Bruno from Querfurt RC parish ⋄ Lidzbark Warmińskitoday: Lidzbark Warmiński gm., Lidzbark Warmiński pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.07.29]
RC deanery

1938 – 1940

vicar — Kolnotoday: Kolno gm., Olsztyn pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.19]
⋄ Epiphany of the Lord RC parish ⋄ Reszeltoday: Reszel gm., Kętrzyn pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]
RC deanery

1935

vicar — Dzierzgońtoday: Dzierzgoń gm., Sztum pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Dzierzgońtoday: Dzierzgoń gm., Sztum pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.28]
RC deanery

1934 – 1935

vicar — Pogrodzietoday: Tolkmicko gm., Elbląg pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ St Nicholas RC parish ⋄ Elblągtoday: Elbląg city pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.04.12]
RC deanery

1933 – 1934

vicar — Henrykowotoday: Orneta gm., Lidzbark Warmiński pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.04.12]
⋄ St Catherine of Alexandria RC parish ⋄ Pieniężnotoday: Pieniężno gm., Braniewo pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]
RC deanery

1932 – 1933

vicar — Piotrowiectoday: Pieniężno gm., Braniewo pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Pieniężnotoday: Pieniężno gm., Braniewo pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.28]
RC deanery

1930 – 1932

vicar — Klewkitoday: Purda gm., Olsztyn pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.04.17]
⋄ St Valentine Priest and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Barczewotoday: Barczewo gm., Olsztyn pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.04.12]
RC deanery

1925 – 1930

student — Braniewotoday: Braniewo urban gm., Braniewo pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.02.14]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

student — Innsbrucktoday: Innsbruck‐Land dist., Upper Austria state, Austria
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[access: 2024.03.19]
⋄ theology, Leopold and Francis University

others related
in death

BLUDAUClick to display biography Bruno, GROSSClick to display biography Bruno, HEIDEClick to display biography George Joseph, JABLOŃSKIClick to display biography Martin, LANGWALDClick to display biography Charles, PODLECHClick to display biography Ferdinand

sites and events
descriptions

ITL KarLag: Russian Rus. Исправи́тельно‐Трудово́й Ла́герь (Eng. Corrective Labor Camp) ITL Rus. Карагандинский (Eng. Karagandskiy) — concentration and slave forced labor camp (within the Gulag complex) — with headquarters in the city of Karaganda, Karaganda Oblast in Kazakhstan. Founded on 17.09.1931. One of the largest in the Gulag complex. It covered an area of 300 by 200 km, with its center in the Dolynka village, c. 45 km from Karaganda. One of the tasks was to grow food, especially animal husbandry, for the emerging centers of coal mining and heavy industry in Kazakhstan. Prisoners slaved in camp workshops (metal processing, drawing, tailoring), in the production of construction materials, in a glassworks, a sugar refinery, a vegetable drying plant, in coal mines, limestone mining, and in fishing. At its peak, c. 65,000 prisoners were held there: e.g. 45,798 (01.01.1943); 50,080 (01.01.1944); 53,946 (01.01.1945); 60,745 (01.01.1947); 63,555 (01.01.1948); 65,673 (01.01.1949); 54,179 (01.01.1950); 45,675 (01.01.1951). In total, c. 1,000,000 people passed through the camp, including many women and children. Many died. It ceased operations on 27.07.1959. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13]
)

Gulag: The acronym Gulag comes from the Rus. Главное управление исправительно‐трудовых лагерей и колоний (Eng. Main Board of Correctional Labor Camps). The network of Russian concentration camps for slave labor was formally established by the decision of the highest Russian authorities on 27.06.1929. Control was taken over by the OGPU, the predecessor of the genocidal NKVD (from 1934) and the MGB (from 1946). Individual gulags (camps) were often established in remote, sparsely populated areas, where industrial or transport facilities important for the Russian state were built. They were modeled on the first „great construction of communism”, the White Sea‐Baltic Canal (1931‐1932), and Naftali Frenkel, of Jewish origin, is considered the creator of the system of using forced slave labor within the Gulag. He went down in history as the author of the principle „We have to squeeze everything out of the prisoner in the first three months — then nothing is there for us”. He was to be the creator, according to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, of the so‐called „Boiler system”, i.e. the dependence of food rations on working out a certain percentage of the norm. The term ZEK — prisoner — i.e. Rus. заключенный‐каналоармец (Eng. canal soldier) — was coined in the ITL BelBaltLag managed by him, and was adopted to mean a prisoner in Russian slave labor camps. Up to 12 mln prisoners were held in Gulag camps at one time, i.e. c. 5% of Russia's population. In his book „The Gulag Archipelago”, Solzhenitsyn estimated that c. 60 mln people were killed in the Gulag until 1956. Formally dissolved on 20.01.1960. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.04.08]
)

Insterburg: Russian transit camp, set up after capture on 21‐22.01.1945 of Insterburg by the Russians, for German population of East Prussia — on the site of the DL Insterburg camp, i.e. the German prisoner of war camp Germ. Durchgangslager der Luftwaffe (Eng. Air Force Transit Camp), managed by the German Luftwaffe Air Force, where the Germans held, among others, French and British — one of concentration centers of defeated Germans marked for slave work in Russia. In Insterburg (now: Chernyakhovsk) and in nearby Yurbork c. 60,000 people were held: men, women, girls and old. All were transported — in rail transfers lasting 4‐7 weeks, without hot food, proper sanitation — to Russians slave labour camps. Many perished before reaching destination… (more on: bazhum.muzhp.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.09.02]
)

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
[access: 2015.09.30]
)

Pius XI's encyclicals: Facing the creation of two totalitarian systems in Europe, which seemed to compete with each other, though there were more similarities than contradictions between them, Pope Pius XI issued in 03.1937 (within 5 days) two encyclicals. In the „Mit brennender Sorge” (Eng. „With Burning Concern”) published on 14.03.1938, condemned the national socialism prevailing in Germany. The Pope wrote: „Whoever, following the old Germanic‐pre‐Christian beliefs, puts various impersonal fate in the place of a personal God, denies the wisdom of God and Providence […], whoever exalts earthly values: race or nation, or state, or state system, representatives of state power or other fundamental values of human society, […] and makes them the highest standard of all values, including religious ones, and idolizes them, this one […] is far from true faith in God and from a worldview corresponding to such faith”. On 19.03.1937, published „Divini Redemptoris” (Eng. „Divine Redeemer”), in which criticized Russian communism, dialectical materialism and the class struggle theory. The Pope wrote: „Communism deprives man of freedom, and therefore the spiritual basis of all life norms. It deprives the human person of all his dignity and any moral support with which he could resist the onslaught of blind passions […] This is the new gospel that Bolshevik and godless communism preaches as a message of salvation and redemption of humanity”… Pius XI demanded that the established human law be subjected to the natural law of God , recommended the implementation of the ideal of a Christian state and society, and called on Catholics to resist. Two years later, National Socialist Germany and Communist Russia came together and started World War II. (more on: www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
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[access: 2023.05.28]
)

sources

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