Hörsaal named after Max Josef Metzger

Hörsaal 47.02 Max Josef Metzger. Max Josef Metzger (1887–1944) came after his priestly ordination in 1915 to Graz, where he founded in 1917 the World Peace Union of the White Cross and in 1919 the Mission Society of the White Cross. With the program of the Christ King Society – social-charitable work and pastoral care, Christian pacifism and unification of the Christian confessions (Una Sancta) – he encountered resistance within the Catholic Church in Graz. This led to him having to leave Graz. In June 1943, he was denounced and arrested in Berlin by a close confidante. The People's Court sentenced him to death on 14 October 1943. He was executed in Brandenburg on 17 April 1944.