In the summer of 2007, Pope Benedict announced beatification of Franz Jagerstatter. Transported to Linz and later to Berlin, a military trial found him guilty of treason. His religion did not allow for the killing of fellow human beings.įranz was put under house arrest. He reported to duty but said he would not serve. In 1940, Franz Jagerstatter was called back to service with the German Army. He would farm, but would refuse any assistance from the immoral war hungry Nazis. He said that his faith in the nonviolence of Jesus Christ taught him to never kill another human being. When he was released to go back to farm-(the Nazis began to understand the importance of food to their conquests)-he vowed to never again train to kill. He put on the uniform of the German Third Reich and served six months in a motor cycle company. However, in 1940, Franz answered the call to duty. Everyone else, out of fear or admiration of the Nazis, voted yes. Franz would have no part of the vote-except to announce publicly that his vote would be no. A vote took place to confirm the power grab of the Nazis. In 1938, Hitler annexed Austria to Germany. When the National Socialist Party of neighboring Germany began to gain strength, Franz spoke out against the Nazis. In Rome, they had an audience with the Pope-a very unique happening for village Austrians. Franz began to attend daily mass, and when he and Franziska married, they motorcycled all the way to Rome on their honeymoon. When he met the woman who would become his wife, he had a dramatic change. He became a good student but as a teen and in his twenties, he developed a reputation as a hell raiser, a fellow who was girl crazy, got into fights with villagers from neighboring areas and had the first motorcycle in his village of St Radegun. His mother married soon after to Heinrich Jagerstatter and Franz took the name of his step father-Jagerstatter.įranz did not do well in school until after the marriage of his mother and adoption by Heinrich Jagerstatter. His natural father was drafted into the German Army as a soldier in World War I and was killed in 1917. His father was Franz Bachmeier of Tarsdorf in the province of Salzburg. When you select any Amazon item to buy from the Voices Education Project web site, and then check out at, a portion of your purchase price will be paid to Voices to support our work.įranz Jagerstatter was born in 1907 to the unmarried maidservant, Rosalie Huber in the village of St. Learn more about Franz Jagerstatter in several works about him (click here for information and purchase)
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