!!!Gföllner, Johannes Maria

Gfoellner, Johannes Maria, b. Waizenkirchen (Upper Austria), Dec. 17, 1867, 
d. Linz (Upper Austria), June 3, 1941, bishop of Linz 
(1915-1941). Ordained as a priest in 1893; despite anti-Semitic 
tendencies openly declared his opposition to National Socialism in his 
famous pastoral letter "Ueber wahren und falschen Nationalsozialismus" 
("About right and wrong national socialism") in 1933.

!Literature
R. Kutschera, J. M. G., Bischof dreier 
Zeitenwenden, 1972.



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