![]() Little Franz became an enthusiastic reader. There was reading too, because Franz's step-grandfather subscribed to a newspaper and possessed many serious books. Now, on the farm, there was enough to eat. She married the farmer, Heinrich Jägerstätter, who adopted his wife's child on marrying, so from February 1917 he became Franz Jägerstätter. When his mother married, the situation suddenly improved. In retrospect, Franz felt more hurt at being disadvantaged at school as a poor child than at the hunger. During the First World War there was widespread hunger in that region. For seven years Franz Huber attended the primary school in St Radegund, where a teacher taught up to 70 children aged from 6 to 13 simultaneously in one room. The child remained in the care of his grandmother, Elisabeth Huber, who though poor was an affectionate woman with wide interests. (2labjegyzet:Franz's father was killed in the First World War), were too poor to get married. As servants, she and the child's father, Franz Bachmeier On the unmarried farmer's maid Rosalia Huber bore a son, Franz, Mutual relationship and love were a crucial human support in the crises In his wife, Franciska, he had an understanding companion their strong In 1481 Brother Klaus prevented a Swiss civil war. he left his wife Dorothea, and his ten children and lived as a hermit for 20 years. He found guidance and help in theīible and in the example of figures such as Thomas More and Nicholas ofįlüe (1st Footnote : Nicholas of Flüe, Brother Klaus 1417-1487. Second call-up, he looked for a way out of the conflict of conscienceīetween his family responsibility and his knowledge that supporting this In the two years between his first experiences in the German army and his The consequences of his decision were clear to him and his family from the start everyone hoped that the war would end He refused not only any supportįor the Nazi party (NSDAP), but also declined to fight in the German army The jung farmer and family man became one of the outstanding figures ofĬhristian resistance to National Socialism. ![]() Here too,įrom 1941 to 1943 he served as sacristan. In the parish church of St Radegund,Upper Austria Franz Jägerstätter wasīaptised here he married and here his children were christened.
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