Deutsche, polnische und tschechische Katholiken: Kardinal Bertram, Bischof Adamski und ihr Kampf um das Olsaland
German, Polish and Czech Catholics – Cardinal Bertram, Bishop Adamski and their Fight for Olsaland

Summary/Abstract: The changing church history of the Olsaland from 1938 to 1945 was characterized by a special development due to the ethnic composition of the Poles, Germans and Czechs. Since 1918 under Czech rule, it fell to Poland in the autumn of 1938 through the Munich Conference. Ecclesiastically, it belonged to the great German diocese of Breslau jurisdictioned by Adolf Cardinal Bertram. With the change to the Polish state area, the jurisdiction fell under Stanislaus Adamski, bishop of Katowice. Politically, since 1918 enormous tensions among all three groups of the population have been intensified since 1938. Also in the parishes of the Catholic Church there were disputes, especially in the German and Czech worship services. With the German attack on Poland in 1939, the Third Reich took over the administration of Olsaland with all restrictions against the Polish and Czech population. In 1940, church membership also changed from Katowice to Breslau. The paper examines the most important development lines.

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