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Friedrich Fritz

last name:

Fritz

first name:

Friedrich

born:

1916-08-01

affiliation:

NordtirolerIn

last change:

Wed Nov 04 13:58:24 UTC 2020

place of work

Innsbruck

milieu

bourgeois

profession(s)

Priest

biography

Father Fritz attended elementary school in the school there and then moved to high school in the Mehrerau in Bregenz, with the Cistercians. At that time, appeared for the first time thoughts in him to become a priest. The harassment of a professor who moved from sixth grade up to the Matura, can still feel it today killed several times a year.DIY and technical fields were his favorite activities, so he had the desire to study engineering. Due to lack of support his father in these areas and the desire to let him be a doctor, Father Fritz lost about 16 years, the interest in technology. His thoughts turned increasingly to the desire to become a priest. He was a member of the Marian Congregation of the Jesuits in Innsbruck, where he experienced an ideal community for his youth (club and hours of prayer, drama) and where he also administrate.After completing high school, he finally took the decision to become a priest. He entered the Jesuit order, Novizität in St. Andrä Lavanttal, one.Two years after the beginning of his philosophical studies in Innsbruck, he had to interrupt it because of turmoil in illegal Nazis. In August of `39 he was forced into the army, after which he was at the start of the war first `September 39, to the end, six years at war. After the breakthrough in France, was originally planned England campaign blown off and it was from the Channel coast from examination leave, benefit the Father Fritz terminating his philosophy studies and completed in two months from the substance of the third year, the Relizienziatsarbeit wrote and with a degree completed.In the war we went through Hungary to Romania, Bulgaria and Greece with the march to Athens, thence to Austria and central Finland with a subsequent 500-kilometer march to the Arctic front, where he had to take over as serviceman, the entire battalion unit and 18 top fighters in the had.Father Fritz was in Norway, guarded by the British and Norwegians, not particularly bad captivity. From there, he has been associated with German ships to Bremerhaven and with partially open cattle cars by Germany to Austria, in a guarded by Americans, fenced with barbed wire prison camp, where he had to perform at a quite good treatment of tree felling.The consequences of a grazing gunshot wound to the head and how he learned later, strychnine poisoning by a Gestapo officer make him today with headache and concentration problems created.After the war, Father Fritz studied theology four years and was ordained `48 to the priest. His first work, which lasted two years, was in Kalksburg, in the College of the Jesuits. The next two years he performed purely spiritual work (exercises, lectures, sermons exercises, etc.) as an assistant master of novices at St. Andrä. He served 19 years a professor in a grammar school in Linz, where he hand craft, music, shorthand, penmanship, mathematics, physics, religion and art education taught. He also was able to his manual skills again and again to bring as the construction of the physics room, is used. From this school he was called up in a nursing home to replace the deceased priest there. After working for the next six years at the school nerd brothers in the village, he went back to Kalksburg. Since 2001, Father Fritz in nursing Caritas Socialis operates and performs Priesterabeiten (fairs, sermons, Beichthören for sisters, sick, etc.) Father Fritz women have only little interest, only one or two women at a young age he had brief thoughts of possible future marriages. had those experiences, which he Will the Mini account, or thoughts of the priesthood were so enthralling that women were no longer interesting for him. Even if he celibacy sometimes difficult, it is the priest-being worth it. (Eva Rittberger)

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