Memorial Lampert Innsbruck

On 27-1-2024 a Zeitpunkt was placed here for Carl LAMPERT, born on 9-1-1894 in Göfis, Vorarlberg, beheaded on 13-11-1944 in the prison of Halle an der Saale.

Carl Lampert attended the seminary in Brixen and was ordained a priest in May 1918.
After studying canon law in Rome, he received the papal honorary title of "Monseigneur".
From 1935 he founded the church court in Innsbruck. In 1939 he became provicar of the new apostolic government of Innsbruck-Feldkirch. In that position he had to negotiate with the National Socialists on church policy issues. This inevitably led to conflict with Gauleiter Franz Hofer, who did not want to recognize Bishop Rusch and opposed the church. Thus the Monastery of Perpetual Adoration was closed.
The nuns fought back, Carl Lampert was blamed for this and was imprisoned for ten days in March 1940. In April he spent a few days in the police prison in Innsbruck following a critical report by Vatican Radio about the oppression of the church in Tyrol and Vorarlberg. A short time later he was arrested again after publishing an obituary for Father Otto Neururer from Götzens, murdered by the Nazis in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
In August 1940, Lampert was taken to Dachau, then to Sachsenhausen. to return to Dachau in December 1940.
After his release in August 1941, he was prohibited from returning to Tyrol and remained in Germany. He moved to Pomerania where he worked as a preacher.
There he met an engineer Georg Hagen, but his real name was Pissaritsch, who worked as an informant for the Gestapo. A friendship grew, they interacted confidentially and Lampert took him to special meetings.
The Gestapo spy recorded everything that was said and heard. On February 4, 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo. He was severely beaten and tortured during his captivity in Halle an der Saale.
The Reich court-martial in Halle sentenced him to death in December 1943. He was chained day and night for weeks. In January 1944 he was transferred to the military prison Fort Zinna in Torgau. At the end of July 1944, he received a second death sentence from the Torgau Court Martial for espionage. After negotiations, a third verdict followed in September 1944, based on the lies of Gestapo spy Franz Pissaritsch.
He was finally beheaded in the prison of Halle an der Saale on November 13, 1944.

The city of Innsbruck has taken a new path when it comes to commemorations.
On January 27, 2024, International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust, the new project "Zeitpunkte" was presented.
A hand-made bronze disc with a diameter of approximately eight centimeters and a thickness of three centimeters is mounted at eye level on light poles or posts in the immediate vicinity of the last freely chosen place of residence of the victims of the Nazi dictatorship. The person's name is on the round plaque, the "Zeitpunkt".
The inscription is engraved and sealed.
The attached QR code refers to the website www.zeitspitzen.at, where information about the biographies and locations can be found in several languages.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Wim Wouters