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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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surname

MAUERSBERGER

forename(s)

John Paul (pl. Jan Paweł)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Warsaw archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.12.20]

academic distinctions

Doctor of Sacred Theology
Doctor of Canon Law

honorary titles

Rochettum et Mantolettum canonmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]

Papal chamberlainmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.22]

Grand Cross „Polonia Restitutamore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]

Commander's Cross with Star „Polonia Restitutamore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]

Commander's Cross „Polonia Restitutamore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]

Cross of Independencemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.02.02]

Knight's Cross „Polonia Restitutamore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]

date and place
of death

12.08.1942

Konstancintoday: part of Konstancin‐Jeziorna, Konstancin‐Jeziorna gm., Piaseczno pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]

details of death

After return in 1903 from studies in Rome to Russian–controlled Poland, forbidden by Russians to fill a prefect post in schools taught in clandestine Polish classes (till 1905 when the permit arrived).

Participant of Polish–Russian war of 1920 as a chaplain representing Polish Red Cross PCK and leading educational effort at Warsaw hospitals.

On 27.12.1933 called up for active service in the Polish Army.

After the German and Russian invasions of Poland in 09.1939 and start of World War II, a day before the capitulation of Warsaw (28.09.1939), co‐founded an underground, resistance scout organization, the continuator of the Polish Scouting Association ZHP.

Later, in 1940, during the German and Russian occupations, the organization adopted the name of „Gray Ranks” and became part of the Polish Clandestine State.

Became its chairman under the „Fr Longin” nom‐de‐guerre.

Hunted by the German Secret Political Police Gestapo went into hiding.

While in hiding perished in Konstancin.

cause of death

disease

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

GeneralgouvernementClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description, Polish‐Russian war of 1919‐1921Click to display the description

date and place
of birth

04.09.1877

Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1902 (Rometoday: Rome prov., Lazio reg., Italy
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
)

positions held

1939 – 1942

chairman — clandestine Polish Scouting Association ZHP („Grey Ranks”)

c. 1903 – c. 1939

prefect — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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⋄ school(s) — i.a. in the Emilian Konopczyński's Gymnasium (from 1913 named after Emilian Konopczyński, from 1905 lectures in Polish), where came into contact with the then clandestine scouting movement (the 3rd Warsaw Scouting Team, that during the World War I adopted the name of Prince Joseph Poniatowski) and the 6‐class school for girls (from 1916 gymnasium) of Hedwig Kowalczyk („Black Hedwig”) and Hedwig Jawurkówna („White Hedwig”); also a lecturer in the methodology of religion teaching at the Teacher Training Courses (later the State Teacher Training Courses) and at the Women's Teacher Training Seminary

1934 – 1939

chancellor — Polish Armed Forces Field Curia

1933 – 1939

military dean — Reserve League, Polish Armed Forces — on 27.12.1933, called up for active service and appointed a professional military chaplain in the rank of military dean, with seniority from 01.06.1934 and 1st place in the military clergy ranks of the Roman Catholic denomination

1931 – 1939

vice–chairman — Polish Scouting Association ZHP

chaplain — Reserve League, Polish Armed Forces

1927 – 1929

chairman — Polish Scouting Association ZHP

1924 – 1925

Chaplain in Chief — Polish Scouting Association ZHP

1923

chairman — Polish Scouting Association ZHP

1920 – 1923

vice–chairman — Polish Scouting Association ZHP

1919 – 1924

chaplain — Polish Armed Forces — in the rank of lieutenant colonel: chaplain of the 1st Engineering Regiment, military parish priest at the Infantry Cadet School in Warsaw and senior chaplain at the Aviation Inspectorate; on 30.11.1924, at his own request, transferred to the corps of reserve officers, in the rank of military parish priest with seniority as 01.06.1919 and 8th place in the military clergy ranks; also: first chairman of the Warsaw Branch Committee of Polish Red Cross PCK Youth Sector (1921‐1924)

1916 – 1918

chairman — Chief Command, Polish Scouting Association ZHP — appointed on 01‐02.11.1916 as the first chaplain of the ZHP at the Unification Congress of scouting organizations operating in the area of the German–occupied Warsaw General Governorate and prob. Austrian–occupied Lublin General Governorate; also an employee of the Department of Education in temporary Council of State of the future Kingdom of Poland established in 1917 by the German and Austrian occupiers, preparing teachers for work in a Polish school

1915 – 1916

commander — (occupational General Governorates’ 1915‐1918 territory)German Imperial General Governorate of Warsaw (Germ. Kaiserlich‐deutsche Generalgouvernement Warschau) and Military General Governorate of Lublin (Germ. Militärgeneralgouvernement Lublin)
today: Poland

more on
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[access: 2023.11.24]
⋄ Polish Scouting Association ZHP

1915 – 1916

membership — (occupational General Governorates’ 1915‐1918 territory)German Imperial General Governorate of Warsaw (Germ. Kaiserlich‐deutsche Generalgouvernement Warschau) and Military General Governorate of Lublin (Germ. Militärgeneralgouvernement Lublin)
today: Poland

more on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.11.24]
⋄ Supreme Scout Command

1914

chaplain — Skoletoday: Skole urban hrom., Stryi rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.20]
⋄ first instructor course, scouting

till c. 1903

PhD student — Rometoday: Rome prov., Lazio reg., Italy
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ theology and canon law

till c. 1902

student — Rometoday: Rome prov., Lazio reg., Italy
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ philosophy and theology

c. 1898 – c. 1899

student — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Metropolitan Theological Seminary

writer and publicist — author of i.a. „Scout catechism, or what every scout should know” (under the pseudonym Fr Longin, Warsaw 1917); „Scout Catechism, or What Every Girl Scout Should Know” (under the pseudonym Fr Longin, Warsaw 1917); „Marian Fathers in the past and today” (Marian Fathers publishing, Warsaw, 1918); „A brave boy or a brave girl is a brave…” (Warsaw 1919); „Commentary on the Scout Law and Scouting Vows” (published by „Grey Ranks” Main HQ, Warsaw 1942, posthumously); publications in many scout magazines, incl. „Scout”, „Scoutmaster

sites and events
descriptions

Generalgouvernement: After the Polish defeat in the 09.1939 campaign, which was the result of the Ribbentrop‐Molotov Pact and constituted the first stage of World War II, and the beginning of German occupation in part of Poland (in the other, eastern part of Poland, the Russian occupation began), the Germans divided the occupied Polish territory into five main regions. In two of them new German provinces were created, two other were incorporated into other provinces. However, the fifth part was treated separately, and in a political sense it was supposed to recreate the German idea from 1915 (during World War I, after the defeat of the Russians in the Battle of Gorlice in 05.1915) of creating a Polish enclave within Germany. Illegal in the sense of international law, i.e. Hague Convention, and public law, managed by the Germans according to separate laws — especially established for the Polish Germ. Untermenschen (Eng. subhumans) — till the Russian offensive in 1945 it constituted the Germ. Großdeutschland (Eng. Greater Germany). Till 31.07.1940 formally called Germ. Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete (Eng. General Government for the occupied Polish lands) — later simply Germ. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate), as in the years 1915‐1918. From 07.1941, i.e. after the German attack on 22.06.1941 against the erstwhile ally, the Russians, it also included the Galicia district, i.e. the Polish pre‐war south‐eastern voivodeships. A special criminal law was enacted and applied to Poles and Jews, allowing for the arbitrary administration of the death penalty regardless of the age of the „perpetrator”, and sanctioning the use of collective responsibility. After the end of the military conflict of the World War UU, the government of the Germ. Generalgouvernement was recognized as a criminal organization, and its leader, governor Hans Frank, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and executed. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04]
)

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]
, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
)

Polish‐Russian war of 1919‐1921: War for independence of Poland and its borders. Poland regained independence in 1918 but had to fight for its borders with former imperial powers, in particular Russia. Russia planned to incite Bolshevik‐like revolutions in the Western Europe and thus invaded Poland. Russian invaders were defeated in 08.1920 in a battle called Warsaw battle („Vistula river miracle”, one of the 10 most important battles in history, according to some historians). Thanks to this victory Poland recaptured part of the lands lost during partitions of Poland in XVIII century, and Europe was saved from the genocidal Communism. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20]
)

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bibliographical:
Register of Latin rite Lviv metropolis clergy’s losses in 1939‐45”, Józef Krętosz, Maria Pawłowiczowa, editors, Opole, 2005
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