Carl Lampert Archive Feldkirch

Carl Lampert, born in 1894 in Göfis, was the highest-ranking representative of the Catholic Church who was imprisoned, tortured, and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Shortly after Austria's "Anschluss" in March 1938, Carl Lampert came increasingly into conflict with the ruling regime because of his statements. After being imprisoned in the concentration camps Dachau and Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, Lampert was "gauverwiesen" in 1941 and banished to Stettin. Accused of espionage, he was beheaded on November 13, 1944, in Halle an der Saale. The Carl Lampert Forum in Feldkirch is an initiative of the Catholic Church of Vorarlberg. It keeps the memory of Carl Lampert alive in church and society.